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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"In 1816, the British parliament repealed the temporary income tax that William Pitt the Younger had introduced in 1789 to finance the Napoleonic …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 …

Blogging Bretton Woods and other matters

12/04/2011

Brad DeLong's blog is worth a read.

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