Stephen Kinsella is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick, Ireland, Senior Fellow at the Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne, Australia, and Research Associate at the Rhodes Centre for International Finance at Brown University. His research uses national accounting data to make better models. He is also interested in the economics of small open economies like Ireland, and health systems research. His research is archived at Orcid and citations, etc., at Google Scholar. He is the Chief Economics Writer for The Currency.news, and was for 4 years a columnist with the Sunday Business Post. He has written for the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Irish Independent. He has twice won Economic Commentator of the Year for my columns.