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"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 …
Voluntary activity and active citizenship: latest CSO figures
Colm O'Doherty 02/08/2009
Colm O'Doherty: The 'message' that Irish Times Social Affairs Correspondent Carl O’Brien has taken from the recent CSO Report on Community …
We deserve it
Michael Taft 02/08/2009
Michael Taft: Just to ensure that everyone knows why we must all share the pain coming down the line, Cathal O’Loughlin (writing in today's Sunday …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …