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The future just got worse

Michael Taft 12/11/2009

Michael Taft: The EU Commission has announced that Ireland will get an extension to the target date for return to Maastricht compliance. Instead of …

Home truths from abroad

Michael Burke 11/11/2009

Michael Burke: It’s in the nature of a globalised economy that all economies tend to exhibit a specific combination of global trends. For a small …

Balanced media?

Slí Eile 09/11/2009

Slí Eile: Scaring? Balanced? A sample of headlines from the Sunday papers last weekend FW: Main Headlines Today's Newspapers Sunday 8 November, …

'O make me a Keynesian (but not yet)' ?

Slí Eile 09/11/2009

Slí Eile: The entry by UK economist David Blanchflower into the domestic economic debate (re-flation versus deflation) created a stir last week. For …

John Baker on The Spirit Level

09/11/2009

John Baker of UCD's School of Social Justice has just posted an illuminating review of Wilkinson & Pickett's recent book, The Spirit Level: Why …

Scaring us into greater inequality

James Wickham 09/11/2009

James Wickham: In a recent article in the Irish Times (4 November) Philip Lane warned that higher levels of income taxation could restrict Ireland's …

Hutton on Brown and Tobin Tax

08/11/2009

There's an interesting piece by Will Hutton, writing in today's Observer, on Gordon Brown's championing of a transaction tax, or 'Tobin Tax', at the …

Are we going too far?

08/11/2009

Last week, on PE, guest blogger Michael Burke, in a post entitled Why is the Rest of the World out of Step with Ireland?, made the case for a …

The Moral Basis for Taxation

Nat O'Connor 06/11/2009

Nat O'Connor: Do progressive economists have a shared belief in the moral basis for taxation? Let me start by referencing Daniel J. Mitchell's 2006 …

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