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15/01/2010

As the idea of a banking enquiry gains traction here in Ireland with both the Government and the Opposition, the Financial Crisis Enquiry Commission …

Progressive Economy Review 2009 - out now!

14/01/2010

A selection of posts written during 2009 has been published as Progressive-Economy@TASC 2009 Review. The digital edition is available here:

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 …

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