Sean Barrett
Sean Barrett is a professor of Economics at Trinity College, Dublin, an advocate of privatisation of public assets and connected to Israeli/Neocon circles.
Background
Barrett gained a doctorate from the National University of Ireland in 1973 and has been a member of the Economics Department at Trinity College since 1970. He served as a director of the Irish Tourist Board, 1984-9, and as a member of the Culliton Review of Industrial Policy (1992). He was both an advocate and analyst of airline deregulation in Ireland and the wider European market.[1]
Activities
He took part in the 2006 Herzliya Conference in Israel, being 'specially flown in from Ireland', according to Daniel Doron.[2] He spokeon 'The Miracle of Irish Economic Revival'[3] in a session on Investment to Spur Economic Growth and Reduce Poverty along with Prof. Stanley Fischer, Governor, Bank of Israel and Dr. Yacov Sheinin, CEO of Economic Models[4]
Affiliations
Member of the Brennan Commission on Financial Management and Control Systems in the Health Service, 2002/3 | Kenmare Economics Conference, Committee Member | Open Republic, Board member[5]
Publications
- 1991 - The market sector in Irish transport: A report for the Confederation of Irish Industry
- 1991 - Transport Policy in Ireland in the 1990s
- 1987 - Flying High: Airline Prices and European Regulations
- 1984 - Airports for sale: The case for competition
- 1999 - John Kells Ingram (1823–1907)
- 1999 - The outlook for European aviation
- 2000 - The economics of competition in health insurance: The Irish case study
- 2000 - Competitiveness and contestability in the Irish media sector
- 2001 - Bus deregulation in Ireland
- 2003 - Privatisation in Ireland
- 2003 - Privatisation Experiences in the EU
- 2004 - OECD Review of Higher Education in Ireland
- 2004 - Airports and Communities in a Deregulated Market
- 2006 - Europe's Congested Airspace – Time for Market Solutions
- 2008 - Scalable quantum computing with atomic ensembles (with Peter P. Rohde and Thomas M. Stace)
- 2009 - The Roads of Ireland
- 2010 - The Sustained Impacts on Taxi Deregulation Economic Affairs, Vol. 30, Issue 1, pp. 61-65, March 2010
References
- ↑ TCD Department of Economics Sean Barrett, accessed 18 May 2009
- ↑ What our elites know, by Daniel Doron, Jerusalem Post, 15 February 2006.
- ↑ What our elites know, by Daniel Doron, Jerusalem Post, 15 February 2006.
- ↑ Executive Summary part 2, Herzliya Conference, accessed 16 May 2009.
- ↑ Open Republic Academic Board, accessed 1 September 2010