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Budget Transparency Reduced by Oireachtas Website Changes
Nat O'Connor 20/09/2012
Nat O'Connor: Public access to the official record of Oireachtas debates has been diminished by the bizarre decision of the Oireachtas website to …
FEPS vacancy: economist
Nat O'Connor 18/09/2012
Nat O'Connor: FEPS (the Foundation for European Progressive Studies) is advertising the important post of Economic Policy Advisor. More details here: …
German Call for EU Programme of Investment
Nat O'Connor 06/09/2012
Nat O'Connor: The major German social democratic foundation (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung) has circulated a cogent 24-page analysis outlining the case …
National Income and Expenditure 2011
Michael Burke 05/09/2012
Michael Burke: The argument in favour of ‘austerity’ measures is that the overriding objective of policy must be to reduce the government …
Unequal societies do encourage criminality
Colm O'Doherty 29/08/2012
Colm O'Doherty: According to Dan O'Brien there is no relationship between inequality and law breaking (Irish Times 24/08/12). This bogus statement is …
The MOU, Big Box economics and shopping centres
Paul Sweeney 22/08/2012
Paul Sweeney: The Rule Book by which Ireland is presently run, “The Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) between the Troika and the Government, is …
Invoking Luther
Tom Healy 14/08/2012
Tom Healy: Writing in today's Irish Times Steven Ozment claims that German Lutheranism explains and justifies the stance of the current German …
Nat O'Connor 13/08/2012
Nat O'Connor: Three German economists and philosophers (Peter Bofinger, Juergen Habermas and Julian Nida-Ruemelin) have released a major statement to …
Scale of inequality now a drag on our economy and well-being
Colm O'Doherty 09/08/2012
Colm O'Doherty: The results from the Central Statistics Office Survey of Income and living Conditions 2010, released earlier this year, confirmed …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …