Millions are spent each year on promoting neoliberal ideas worldwide. JP O’Malley reads between the lines of a subtle example of this. 

While 80% want to stay in the EU, many also profess to be socialist. A balance of free-market ideals and privatisation, tempered by debt relief, is the best compromise, says Paul Glader

Matt Rognlie is a fun and a very smart guy. 

Your recent editorial (Irish Examiner, February 8) calls for a remodelling of capitalism to fight inequality, but without offering a solution.

Deirdre McCloskey has been a lot of things in her life — a Marxist, an anarchist, a contemporary of Milton Friedman and a man called Donald.

The financial crisis that has engulfed Europe for almost half a decade is far from resolved and many believe the breakup of the euro is still a distinct possibility, writes Europe correspondent Ann Cahill.

The news that some Irish names are listed amongst those hoarding vast amounts of wealth in offshore accounts should not be a shock.

Bank of Ireland shareholder, Wilbur Ross, has accused the last government of “very bad politics” for its handling of the economy.

Colette Browne’s cynicism (Opinion, Feb 8) regarding the hypocrisy displayed by a member of the banking elite is sincere, but she didn’t pinpoint the real conundrum of our money system.

To fulfil their role in recovery banks need to rebuild the trust that has been decimated by events of the past three years, writes Bob Diamond

The problem with capitalism is that the money and the decisions are the preserve of an elite few. There is a better, fairer, sustainable way that could serve us all, writes Kieran Allen

WHAT is most despairing about the continuing sacrifice of the future prosperity of the Irish to protect the house of cards that is the current economic model is the lack of recognition of the failings of this model by our political elite.

WE now face into an election which is unlikely to result in substantial changes to the provisions of the budget and Finance Bill.

MILTON Friedman, the architect of the current version of capitalism foisted on the world, must be looking down from wherever he is spending his afterlife and cracking a wry smile at the goings on in Ireland.

IF YOU have only read one economics book — and one is, understandably, too many for some people — it was probably Freakonomics.

IN your editorial (October 16) you plead for a new way to bring more justice and equality in the world. You state that various economic models have failed, including socialism, but I would argue socialism hasn’t been allowed to succeed.

SHOULD a woman fake an orgasm?

I FIND it deeply worrying that in the same week in which Bertie Ahern and his colleagues received disgusting pay increases, the CSO released statistics revealing that the rich/poor gap is as wide as ever and that childhood poverty is still a very real and prevalent factor in modern Irish society.

MILTON FRIEDMAN, the free market economist who died last November, had little truck with the idea that businesses had responsibilities for anything other than making profits for investors.

Milton Friedman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who championed individual freedom, influenced the economic policies of three presidents and befriended world leaders, has died at 94.

The market is infatuated with the euro which rose to $1.2450. Richard Blackden reports.