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Stiglitz on a 'contagion of bad ideas'
05/08/2011
"The Great Recession of 2008 has morphed into the North Atlantic Recession: it is mainly Europe and the United States, not the major emerging …
Education cutbacks bad for economy
Sinéad Pentony 04/08/2011
Sinéad Pentony: Today’s news that class sizes are set to increase highlights the shortsightedness of responses to the fiscal crisis. As in many …
Time to start working on Plan B
Michael Taft 03/08/2011
Michael Taft: The recent Central Bank quarterly report confirms (as if we needed confirmation) that the economy remains in slow bleed mode. That they …
The latest installment of Euro crisis
Slí Eile 28/07/2011
Slí Eile: Reactions to last week's Euro summit conclusions have been generally positive with much focus - at least in the Irish media - on the …
Questions that should be put to the Minister
Michael Taft 27/07/2011
Michael Taft: The Cabinet has approved the interim Household Charge of €100, designed to ‘raise’ €160 million from 1.8 million households. …
All roads lead to Berlin
Michael Burke 25/07/2011
Michael Burke: The details of the latest EU Summit remain sketchy and on the surface overwhelmingly relate to Greece alone. The Agreement reached by …
Our disappearing corporate taxes
An tSaoi 25/07/2011
An Saoi: Stand up and take a bow, the tax team of Microsoft Inc! You managed to reduce the effective corporate tax rate to just 17.53% for the year …
Thomas Palley on a global minimum wage system
22/07/2011
Thomas Palley is Bernard L. Schwartz Economic Growth Fellow with the New America Foundation. This piece was originally published in the FT …
New Deal for Europe
Slí Eile 20/07/2011
Slí Eile: An extremely lucid and timely contribution by Miguel Carrion from at Eurointelligence here. He writes:The "New Deal for Europe" would …
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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 …
Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …