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Middle ground of Keynesianism
02/10/2009
In today's Irish Times, Paul Sweeney wonders whether "a return to middle ground of Keynesian economics" might be the answer be the answer to our …
Green New Deal - The Neo-Classical Empire strikes back
02/10/2009
John Barry: Over at Irish Economy, Richard Tol has attacked the Comhar Green New Deal report. What I particularly enjoyed about it and found …
Public Sector Pay: CSO add their part to the analysis
Slí Eile 01/10/2009
Slí Eile: The controversy around public-private sector pay differences continues following today's release by the Central Statistics Office of a …
Marching for the economy
Michael Taft 01/10/2009
Michael Taft: Imagine you’re walking a high-wire. You’re nearly at the end of line. You’re doing everything possible not to fall – balancing …
Guest post by Brendan Williams: Switching market principles on/off in NAMA
Brendan Williams 01/10/2009
Brendan Williams: The recently announced legislation on Nama, by allowing for the potential payment of a future market recovery price for assets, …
Two reasons to vote yes
01/10/2009
Jim Stewart Reason 1 The Global Financial Stability Report by the IMF published on 30 September shows that, in February/March this year, the ECB was …
Comhar report - Towards a Green New Deal for Ireland
01/10/2009
The report published today by Comhar - Towards a Green New Deal for Ireland - is now available for download here. John Gibbons' piece in today's …
Northern Ireland review of economic policy
30/09/2009
John Barry: To balance the focus of this blogsite on political and economic developments in the Republic of Ireland - here's one about Northern …
Towards a Progressive Economics: Programme now available for download
29/09/2009
The line-up of speakers for the TASC Autumn Conference - Towards a Progressive Economics - has been finalised and now includes David Begg and Fintan …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …