{"id":31150,"date":"2015-11-08T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=31150"},"modified":"2015-11-08T11:09:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T11:09:15","slug":"in-praise-of-kilkenomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/11\/08\/in-praise-of-kilkenomics\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of Kilkenomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this as I am about to leave Kilkenny in Ireland, having done five gigs on Friday and Saturday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kilkenomics.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kilkenomics<\/a>&nbsp;festival of, yes, economics.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I have been, and if I am asked, I will be here again. It's extraordinary to find so many economists, and more importantly so many audiences, keen to discuss economic issues all in one place.<\/p>\n<p>My only regret was that such was the intensity of my own schedule there was almost no chance to get in to see other people's events, so I missed many good people unless they happened to be sharing platforms with me.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious thought that follows is, of course, why this happens here but not in the UK? Could such a festival work anywhere but Ireland? I am not in any way volunteering to organise such an event. It would be great if someone felt so inclined.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this as I am about to leave Kilkenny in Ireland, having done five gigs on Friday and Saturday at the Kilkenomics&nbsp;festival of,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/11\/08\/in-praise-of-kilkenomics\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}