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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 …

TTIP is not a conventional free trade agreement

David Begg 26/05/2015

David Begg: Since the collapse of the DOHA round of multilateral trade negotiations the focus of global trade policy has shifted towards regional or …

Employers' Social Contributions in Ireland

Paul Sweeney 19/05/2015

Paul Sweeney: Here on Progressive Economy, we have been examining the evidence for tax reform in recent months. In my last Blog I looked at …

Capital Markets Union – The Risk of Short-Termism

David Begg 13/05/2015

David Begg: The European Commission believes that European Capital Markets are underdeveloped. It considers that this is an aspect of the single …

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