Category: Economics
BBC podcast: The Economist's New Clothes
Nat O'Connor 06/11/2009
Nat O'Connor: I found this BBC Analysis podcast to be a good overview of the crisis in the economics profession. I particularly liked the discussion …
Social Justice Ireland Alternative Budget
Slí Eile 05/11/2009
Slí Eile: Social Justice Ireland is to be commended for taking on the Dublin Consensus by working on an alternative budget. SJI has gone through the …
Guest post by Michael Burke: Why is the rest of the world out of step with Ireland?
Michael Burke 05/11/2009
Michael Burke: Ever have one of those moments when you just know everyone else has got it wrong and you’ve got it right? When you say, I don’t …
Where are all the (cash) savings going?
An tSaoi 04/11/2009
An Saoi: Hidden inside the Central Bank’s monthly statistical reports is an analysis of household cash holdings in banks and credit unions (Table …
'Cut Deep, Cut Now and Keep on Cutt'n'
Slí Eile 02/11/2009
Slí Eile: The cage was truly rattled, today, by David Blanchflower, UK economist, who challenged the home consensus about deflation. Speaking at the …
Ignorance is not strength
Michael Taft 01/11/2009
Michael Taft: I would say this debate is turning for the worse, but that would be incorrect. You need to have two sides in a debate. All we get is an …
Recovery is not reform
01/11/2009
Recovery is not reform. The government’s intended path to recovery is a mixture of borrowing, pay cuts, and spending cuts. All recovery plans treat …
The many-legged Irish Recession
28/10/2009
"The Irish economy certainly is in a recession and, by the rule-of-thumb definition, we’re in a depression. The economy will fall by more than 10% …
An alternative approach
26/10/2009
"There are now 428,000 people on the live register. The corrosive effect of this – the risk of long-term unemployment and the pressure on the …
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Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …