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Has the time come?
19/04/2011
"In 1816, the British parliament repealed the temporary income tax that William Pitt the Younger had introduced in 1789 to finance the Napoleonic …
Integrating innovation drivers
David Jacobson 19/04/2011
David Jacobson: I have been banging on in a number of blogs over the years on the importance of innovation policy, and in particular on the …
Troika statement: It's Friday, let's go to the pub
15/04/2011
From the statement by the EC, ECB and IMF released today: ‘The teams’ assessment is that the program is on track but challenges remain and …
Stiglitz on the Irish crisis
Tom McDonnell 15/04/2011
Tom McDonnell: Joe Stiglitz's preface to a new collection of essays on Exiting from the Crisis makes for interesting reading. The publication (to …
Myths of the Irish Crisis: Wages and Competitiveness
14/04/2011
TASC has just issued a new discussion paper by TASC economist (and PE blogger) Tom McDonnell examining two distinct but related claims. First that …
Guess-the-speaker
Michael Taft 14/04/2011
Michael Taft: "Just as we managed to tame inflation in the 1980s, this decade should be the one that takes full employment seriously once again . . . …
12.5 per cent is no solution
Michael Burke 13/04/2011
Michael Burke: The Irish Times reports that the new Taoiseach refused to countenance any upward adjustment of the corporate tax rate in exchange for …
Facing Up to Reality II: The Methodological Flaw in An Bord Snip Nua
12/04/2011
This post follows on from a previous contribution. Michael Taft: In the previous post, we saw how billions of fiscal contraction has led to little …
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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 …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …