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Financial exclusion - a lucrative business for some
Paula Clancy 06/08/2009
Paula Clancy: Last December, TASC organised a seminar on financial exclusion. The day before, Sean Fitzpatrick resigned as chairman of Anglo Irish …
Exchequer Returns confirm impact of Government deflationary strategy
Slí Eile 05/08/2009
Slí Eile: Predictably, the collapse in retail sales, among other things, is taking its toll on Exchequer returns as signalled in today's latest …
"Markets can be wrong and the price is not always right"
Slí Eile 05/08/2009
Slí Eile: Of relevance in NAMA-land, writing in yesterday's Financial Times Richard Thaler reports that the 'Efficient Market Hypothesis' is under …
Social welfare cuts and NAMA
Peter Connell 05/08/2009
Peter Connell: Brian Lenihan is quoted in Saturday’s Irish Times as insisting that the banking crisis is ‘entirely separate’ to the financial …
Let them eat Cake
Slí Eile 04/08/2009
Slí Eile: Economics is a neutral science - don't you know. ESRI authors Anne Jennings, Seán Lyons and Richard Tol have just completed a working …
More on NAMA ...
04/08/2009
On the eve of publication of the draft NAMA legislation, Mike Allen of Focus Ireland wrote a guest post for PE arguing that NAMA must generate a …
A wry take on NAMA and other links
04/08/2009
"All citizens shall extemporise pompous and reactionary views on dole scroungers, trade unions, pampered schoolchildren and other social parasites …
Sara Burke on McCarthy cuts ... and some alternatives
03/08/2009
Health policy analyst Sara Burke - who's post for PE on the health cuts proposed in the Bord Snip Nua report is available here - has an excellent …
Homo Economicus Dublinius
Slí Eile 03/08/2009
Slí Eile: Commenting on this website, anonymous said ...as a private sector worker married to a nurse I can assure you that the reality of life for …
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Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Jim Stewart
Dr Jim Stewart is Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His research …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …