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Lets start a race to the top: IMF on Inequality

Cormac Staunton 17/06/2015

Cormac Staunton: The IMF have released another staff paper on inequality with some very important findings for our understanding of both the causes …

There are no jobs on a dead planet

David Begg 16/06/2015

David Begg: German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, appears to have achieved something of a victory in persuading the G7 group of leading industrial …

Pensions Research Conference

11/06/2015

The Pension Policy Research Group Annual Conference will be held on Wednesday 17th June 2015 in the School of Business Trinity College Dublin. The …

The American Nightmare

10/06/2015

Book Review of Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, by Robert D Putnam. James Wickham: Some social changes come with trumpets blaring, promoted by …

Tsipras may still have a card to play

David Begg 08/06/2015

David Begg: In a joint article published in a number of European newspapers last week a German and a French politician set out an audacious plan for …

I'm a poor, poor farmer...

Cormac Ó Gráda 03/06/2015

Cormac O'Grada: The website that is causing the IFA so much grief is both interesting and, from an equity standpoint, very disturbing. Analysing the …

Critique of Knowledge Development Box

Jim Stewart, David Jacobson 02/06/2015

David Jacobson and Jim Stewart: The idea of the Knowledge Development Box (KDB) is to provide tax incentives to firms to locate their R&D …

Equality for All - Really?

David Begg 28/05/2015

David Begg: The high turnout and the active involvement of so many campaigning groups, especially the engagement of young people, in the referendum …

Good News on Jobs

Paul Sweeney 27/05/2015

Paul Sweeney: There is good news on the jobs front. But we should never have had such a collapse in the economy and jobs. The job of economists and …

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