Fixing public service ‘disaster’ is a pipe dream

A coherent approach needed to fix the health service, writes Jim Power.

Economics is a social science that is meant to provide a coherent answer to the dilemma of how to allocate scarce resources in a manner that will go some way towards satisfying insatiable demand.

In theory, it sounds reasonably straightforward but, in practice, it is a total nightmare, as is being currently demonstrated in cataclysmic fashion in the Irish health service.