Blog Archive
Responding to the crisis
24/03/2009
It can be hard to see beyond the impending budget and the rising crescendo of voices clamouring for cutting our way out of the present gathering …
Stimulus
24/03/2009
1 One of the key arguments against a stimulus package in Ireland is that additional public spending will leak out through imports. In other words …
Getting ideological
Paula Clancy 20/03/2009
Paula Clancy: David Quinn is right about one thing: we do need to start asking ourselves what kind of society we want when we come out of the current …
Auditors: one of the guilty parties?
David Jacobson 18/03/2009
David Jacobson: As the crisis progresses (or should that be ‘regresses’?), analyses of its aetiology will no doubt develop in their complexity …
Pay Cuts and Deflation
Paul Sweeney 17/03/2009
Paul Sweeney: Many economists and commentators are still arguing, very strongly and with great certainty, that pay cuts will be the major part of the …
So who's to blame? An Icelandic saga
Terry McDonough 16/03/2009
Terry McDonough: I came across the following very interesting reference from Ann Mayhew on the institutional economics AFEEMAIL list. Enjoy. In the …
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 …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …