Liberté Egalité…Productivité?

May 13th, 2007 · No Comments

This column originally appeared in the Sunday Tribune on 13 May 2007.
Richard DelevanWould you vote for a party whose leader promised to lengthen your working week? It’s a proposal, we tend to assume, that would rank up there in popularity with promises to raise your taxes, reduce the amount spent on health and education and [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: column

VHI’s Game Theory Chicken

December 17th, 2006 · No Comments

This column first appeared in the 17 December 2006 edition of the Sunday Tribune.
Richard Delevan
The weird thing about negotiations is that if your heart isn’t in it, the person across the table can smell it. You can only imagine the conversations between Mary Harney and Bupa’s Martin O’Rourke. O’Rourke, sitting there, knowing that Harney used [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: column