Blog Archive
The economic crisis: some suggestions
Jim Stewart 06/12/2009
Jim Stewart: The economic crisis has revealed failures in many areas:- regulation, industrial policy, tax policy, corporate governance and planning. …
Tax Breaks
Nat O'Connor 04/12/2009
Nat O'Connor: TASC has estimated that tax breaks ('tax expenditure' to use the technical term) on personal income tax and corporation tax will cost …
Shopping Outside the Box
Colm O'Doherty 04/12/2009
Colm O'Doherty: Last week the Irish Times carried two stories which when examined together provide an instructive commentary on contemporary Irish …
November tax figures - not as good as they seem
An tSaoi 04/12/2009
An Saoi: Newspaper headlines suggest that the decline in tax revenues is bottoming out, and indeed the November figures themselves look at first …
Current government policy is misguided
Jim Stewart 03/12/2009
Jim Stewart: The current stated policy of the Government is to reduce the fiscal deficit as a percentage of GDP to 3% or under by 2014 (formerly …
Ireland after NAMA - New Blog
Sean Ó Riain 02/12/2009
Sean O Riain: There is a new and interesting blog written mainly, but not exclusively, by geographers at http://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/ For a …
Principle 5 - Up the Game - Compete on new knowledge and Services
Slí Eile 29/11/2009
Slí Eile: The current economic crisis is forcing us to move away from strategies that rely on a combination of dependence on foreign direct …
Paper by Niamh Hardiman - Impact of the Crisis on the Irish Political System
Slí Eile 29/11/2009
Slí Eile: The paper by Niamh Hardiman last Thursday has been widely acclaimed as a signficant contribution to the debate on political economy. You …
Ireland and Dubai
Paul Sweeney 29/11/2009
Paul Sweeney: The Irish economy could collapse? Is this possible? The editorial in Saturday’s Financial Times (28th November 2009), on Dubai, …
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Contributors
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …