NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Two staff members of the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, Gerard Turley and Maureen Maloney, have just completed the fourth edition of the highly successful textbook in economics, Principles of Economics: An Irish Text. Co-authored with Francis O' Toole of Trinity College Dublin, this third-level textbook was first written in 1997, and specifically for the university and IT market in Ireland. The fourth edition incorporates many contemporary issues in economics, including reflections on the post Celtic Tiger years, the economic downturn caused by the international recession, the banking crisis and the property crash, and the latest on the eurozone and sovereign debt crisis. The textbook is published by Gill & Macmillan and more details can be found at
http://www.gillmacmillan.ie/economics/economics/principles-of-economics-4th-edition
The European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM)
- 8th Workshop on the
Challenges of Managing the Third Sector takes place in the J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics on June 9th and 10th
2011 .