Blog Archive

Bankers and inequality

Paul Sweeney 21/04/2010

Paul Sweeney: New research from the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performances shows that in the decade from 1998, the top 10 per cent of workers in …

Ich bin ein Berliner

Slí Eile 20/04/2010

Slí Eile: Garret got it wrong on 'Hiring economic advisers would have been government's smartest investment' He wrote: In particular, there is no …

Union density

Michelle O'Sullivan 19/04/2010

Michelle O'Sullivan: The latest CSO release indicates that union density for the second quarter of 2009 was 34%, higher than the previous three years …

Irish versus Transparency?

Nat O'Connor 19/04/2010

Nat O'Connor: Am I the only one who was wondering why it was taking so long for the Finance Act 2010 to be publicly available? (It was signed into …

Volcanoes and economics

Paul Sweeney 17/04/2010

Paul Sweeney: We may have harnessed nature, but the last few days flight cancellations in Europe demonstrate that nature can assert itself very …

"Liberalism in Crisis" Symposium

16/04/2010

The Department of Sociology and the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis at NUI Maynooth are holding a symposium on May 6th on …

UK Election and Economic Policy

Nat O'Connor 16/04/2010

Nat O'Connor: Beyond the glitz of party leaders in TV debates, the very fact of a UK general election is likely to influence Ireland. Election fever …

ESRI commentary

Paul Sweeney 14/04/2010

Paul Sweeney: In his latest book, “Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy,” Joseph Stiglitz slams the Irish …

Tackling unemployment is the central challenge

Tom O'Connor 13/04/2010

Tom O'Connor: In a paper delivered last month to the Labour Party economic conference in Cork, I argued that any return to economic growth would not …

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