How do you like them apples?
Today 10 September 2024 Apple has finally been ordered to pay 13,000,000,000 Euros in tax to the Irish Government but back then they did not want it and this is why…
UNASUR-GRID: Financing Sustainable Energy Sovereignty with the Bank of the South
This is a new book chapter of mine on the use of local finance in South America to integrate national electrical grids into a UNASUR regional electric GRID which moves to 100% renewable inputs. Tony Phillips (2016), UNASUR-GRID: Financing Sustainable […]
Argentina and the ICSID
Perspectives on the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and Argentina’s Debt April 25, 2016 The following article is written by Tony Phillips an Irish and Argentine economist specialising in the build up to and the consequences of […]
TV Interview on living in Argentina
An interview with me as part of a set called “Why Here?” I.e. why have you relocated to Buenos Aires? It is from a few years back, but later aired on TV and now on YouTube
Argentina Versus Argentina versus the World Bank: fair play or fixed fight?
[The ICSID) is] Obscure, that is, outside of Latin America (where the ICSID is referred to as the CIADI for it’s initials in Spanish). While mention of the ICSID in London or New York will likely elicit confused stares, in La Paz or Buenos Aires CIADI could well provoke a string of expletives.
Greece; Deathplace of Democracy
The word Referendum comes from the Latin referre (to bring back) and demos is Greek for the people as a political unit; demos is the root of the word Democracy; so a referendum brings a decision back to the people. […]
2012 book / What if Ireland Defaults
Country StudiesCh. 7. The Russian Crisis and the Crisis of RussiaConstantin GurdgievCh. 8. Iceland: The Accidental HeroElaine Byrne and Huginn F. ?orsteinssonCh. 9. Irish Public Debt: A View through the Lens of the Argentine DefaultTony PhillipsCh. 10. Coring out the […]