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Debt, Growth and Coding Errors
Tom McDonnell 17/04/2013
Tom McDonnell: Reinhart and Rogoff's finding that the growth rate starts to decline once the public debt to GDP ratio exceeds 90% has become embraced …
Optimal taxation of top incomes
Tom McDonnell 16/04/2013
Tom McDonnell: You can find an interesting paper on optimal top marginal tax rates here. The authors find that the optimal top marginal tax rate …
Bringing Balance to Imbalance
Tom McDonnell 16/04/2013
Tom McDonnell: The results of the EU Commission's review of macroeconomic imbalances can be seen here. Andrew Watt attacks the partiality and …
Conference on "Understanding the Changing Worlds of Capitalism", May 1st
15/04/2013
Understanding the Changing Worlds of Capitalism: New Perspectives on the Political Economy of Work, Production and Employment RegimesA Research …
Workshop on Industrial policy in Comparative Perspective, Thursday April 25th
09/04/2013
Whither Industrial Policy? The Future of Public Institutions and Economic Development 3-6 pm, Thursday April 25th 2013 Institute of Bankers, 1 North …
'Social Security for All'
Nat O'Connor 04/04/2013
Nat O'Connor: Compass in the UK have produced a short briefing document entitled 'Social Security for All' as a way of (re)making the case for the …
What's a Euro anyway?
26/03/2013
Is a euro in a Cypriot bank, locked down by withdrawal limits and capital controls, the same as a euro in an Irish or French bank? Is a euro sitting …
Drivers of progressive tax
12/03/2013
A recent OECD report olooks at the progressivity of income tax systems in their 34 member countries. A progressive tax is often simply defined as one …
Effects of the minimum wage on the jobs market
Tom McDonnell 06/03/2013
Tom McDonnell: TASC made a short submission last week to the Labour Court review of the JLC wage agreement mechanisms. The submission is available …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …