From Reaganomics to Kilkenomics

I think I might have reached Peak Nomics. I’m in Stavanger in Norway hosting shows at a festival called KaKanomics which is about economics, writes Colm O’Regan.

I got the gig because I work at Kilkenomics, which is a portmanteau of Kilkenny and economics. There isn’t a specific Kilkenny economic theory but if there was, Brian Cody wouldn’t tell us about it anyway and you’d only find out at the later stages of the championship.

Economics as entertainment is a long way away from where economics used to be. My earliest introduction to economics was in the late 80s when my older brothers were studying commerce degrees in college.