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Remote scenarios?
14/06/2012
Consider the following scenario. After a victory by the left-wing Syriza party, Greece’s new government announces that it wants to renegotiate the …
Guest post by Martin O'Dea: A simple suggestion
Martin O'Dea 14/06/2012
Martin O'Dea: Forgetting banking debt and its link to sovereign debt and resolutions required around this issue and just dealing with excessive …
The Costs of Working in Ireland
Nat O'Connor 13/06/2012
Nat O'Connor: The ESRI withdrew a working paper today. The Irish Times reported that this was "unprecedented". However, another ESRI report (on waste …
Paul de Grauwe on the need for action
Paul Sweeney 12/06/2012
Paul Sweeney: With all the events happening in Europe and the lack of leadership by the Prime Ministers, Finance Ministers, the economic Commissioner …
Guest post by Suzanne Rosselet-McCauley and Adrian Devitt: Restoring sustainable competitiveness
Suzanne Rosselet-McCauley, Adrian Devitt 11/06/2012
Suzanne Rosselet-McCauley and Adrian Devitt: Competitiveness is one of the most abused terms in modern economics, meaning many different things to …
Fiddling while Europe burns
Paul Sweeney 07/06/2012
Paul Sweeney: Today’s Financial Times tells us that in an effort to persuade Spain to accept a bailout, “unlike earlier bailouts for Greece, …
Joseph Stiglitz on the price of inequality
06/06/2012
[...] America has the highest level of inequality of any of the advanced countries – and its gap with the rest has been widening. In the …
The crisis in Greece and arms purchases
Jim Stewart 31/05/2012
Jim Stewart: Recent comments by the Head of the IMF (Christine Lagarde, Guardian Newspaper 26th May) in laying the blame for the crisis in Greece on …
Krugman - on just about everything
31/05/2012
Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman's visit to Britain has given rise to a number of interviews and articles. Click here here to read a full transcript of …
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Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
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Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …