Blog Archive

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 …

A platform for more cuts

Michael Taft 12/04/2010

Michael Taft: While the public sector pay agreement is presented as a platform for negotiating a reversal of the pension levy and wage cuts, the …

Competitiveness indicators

12/04/2010

The National Competitiveness Council is currently preparing the 2010 edition of Benchmarking Ireland's Performance. In 2009, the Council used …

Fine Gael's Economics

Nat O'Connor 12/04/2010

Nat O'Connor: Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny is quoted as saying that Richard Bruton will be Minister for Finance under any FG-led government and that …

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