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The burdens of a low tax society

Slí Eile 24/06/2009

Sli Eile: Received wisdom in political economy establishment thinking here in Ireland is that taxes are a ‘burden’ (in other words not nice and …

Irish Industrial Policy: Strategic Obsessions

David Jacobson 23/06/2009

David Jacobson: Since the end of the 1950s industrial policy has evolved around two main objectives, the encouragement of foreign direct investment …

E-book for download - The crash: A view from the left

22/06/2009

Edited by Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford, The crash: A view from the left offers an alternative perspective to the dominant economic paradigm. …

Can Anglo-Irish be saved?

Dóchas 19/06/2009

Dóchas: Question: Should Anglo’s debts have been guaranteed, i.e. should it have been allowed to fail in September and guarantees extended only to …

What did you do during the Great Recession, Grandad?

Slí Eile 18/06/2009

Slí Eile: Some time in the future this question will be asked and, perhaps, the answer will be (at least in an Irish context): A small number of us …

How much can Ireland inc afford to pay those on welfare?

Slí Eile 17/06/2009

Slí Eile: Irish Times journalist, Sarah Carey, writing on 17 June ('State's own welfare must determine level of payments') has taken up the welfare …

Markets and morality

Paul Sweeney 17/06/2009

Paul Sweeney: Markets and morality is an interesting subject. It should be on every economics course, but is probably absent under the narrow regime …

Get ready for the next big thing

Slí Eile 16/06/2009

Sli Eile: This is the conclusion of a writer in the current edition of that internationally respectable journal, Foreign Policy, under ‘Why bad …

Growing our way out of the trap

16/06/2009

This from Ray Kinsella in the Irish Times this morning: "[...] We need to grow our way out of this trap. This means listening and responding to real …

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