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New Statesman article on Irish fiscal policy
Slí Eile 13/01/2010
Slí Eile: This article by Ron Brown on Irish fiscal policy is worth a read.
A Progressive Plan for Dublin (and the Country)?
Nat O'Connor 13/01/2010
Nat O'Connor: Dublin City Council have launched the Draft Dublin City Development Plan 2011-2017 and are actively seeking "conversations with, and …
"Ireland seems to have accepted such a future. Spain and Greece have not"
Slí Eile 12/01/2010
Slí Eile: So wrote Martin Wolf in the Financial Times last week. The context was as follows: This leaves peripheral countries in a trap: they cannot …
Some thinking from across the two waters
Michael Taft 12/01/2010
Michael Taft: Some robust progressive thinking from the US and the UK..As the UK debate is in danger of descending into which party can cut how much, …
Lobbying and de-regulation: an IMF view
Paul Sweeney 12/01/2010
Paul Sweeney: The IMF – not known as a progressive organisation – recently published a research paper which showed that those US financial …
Rising tides, luxury yachts and leaky fishing boats
James Wickham 11/01/2010
James Wickham: Everyone assumes that the aim of economic policy must be to return to "growth". But more than ever, we need to ask what sort of …
Effective tax rates in Ireland
Proinnsias Breathnach 11/01/2010
Proinnsias Breathnach: I sent the following letter to the Irish Times in early December, but like my article on competitiveness, it failed to make it …
Reduced costs are not the route to export competitiveness
Proinnsias Breathnach 11/01/2010
Proinnsias Breathnach: I sent the following to the Irish Times in early December but it wasn't published: The ability to penetrate export markets is …
Mirror, mirror on the wall: who is the most deflationary of them all?
Slí Eile 10/01/2010
Slí Eile: The ESRI authors of their latest Quarterly Economic Commentary make the following two claims: ‘In spite of popular perceptions, analysis …
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