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Values, Prices and Economics
12/03/2009
Oscar Wilde once complained that 'economists know the price of everything but the value of nothing'. Well, the same could be said about current day …
The incredible shrinking billionaires and other stories
12/03/2009
This story has made all the papers, but the Guardian probably has the most succinct account: apparently the number of billionaires on the planet has …
Borrow, Tax and Spend?
10/03/2009
“This notion that the economy is self-stabilising is usually right but it is wrong a few times a century. And this is one of those …
Who’s for some expansionary fiscal contraction?
Peter Connell 10/03/2009
Peter Connell: The mini-budget that we can look forward to in three weeks time will, I’m sure we’ll be told, ‘constitute a necessary first step …
Krugman on bad banks / good banks
09/03/2009
Following on from Terry McDonough's post on bank nationalisation, Paul Krugman makes some interesting points on the whole bad bank/good bank argument …
We can't go back to 'bad banks'
06/03/2009
With all the discussion of 'good' and 'bad' banks - see the excellent posts by Terry McDonough on this site and Karl Whelan at irisheconomy.ie - it …
Exchequer Returns Emphasise Need for Growth Strategy
04/03/2009
Yesterday's exchequer returns mark the end of Ireland's tax strategy since the end of the 1990s. As capital gains taxes collapse and stamp duty …
Economic Sociology on the Financial Crisis
04/03/2009
Fred Block traces the evolution of the sub-prime crisis in this very clear exposition of the problem. Donald McKenzie of Edinburgh University makes …
Comfort from US Heritage Foundation: we may be broke, but we’re economically free!
Paula Clancy 03/03/2009
Paula Clancy: Looking for something else on the web, I came across Ireland’s entry in the 2009 Index of Economic Freedom, published by the …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …
Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …