The debate elsewhere

Michael Taft: With the Government and opposition parties all supporting another round of fiscal contraction (with the exception of Sinn Fein), it's worth noting the success of stimlulus programmes in other counries and the continuing debate on whether they intensify those efforts: see this piece in the New York Times.

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Michael Taft is an economic analyst and trade unionist. He is author of the Notes of the Front blog and a member of the TASC Economists’ Network.