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We always need sceptical economists

Paul Sweeney 03/07/2009

Paul Sweeney: There is a growing consensus that the collapse in the world economy is due largely to the failure of the liberalisation, privatisation, …

More Cutting Times (Rent Supplement)

Nat O'Connor 29/06/2009

Nat O'Connor: Today’s Irish Times suggests that rent supplement (along with child benefit) is being targeted for cuts by the Special Group on …

Cutting times?

28/06/2009

Today's Sunday Tribune leads with leaked reports of the cuts likely to be proposed by 'An Bord Snip Nua'. Click here to read the story, and here to …

Krugman on macroeconomics and the 'Great Ignorance'

27/06/2009

"Doing what I think of as real macroeconomics — the tradition that runs through Keynes and Hicks — actually involves thinking about …

"The only show in town?"

Slí Eile 25/06/2009

Slí Eile: In recent days, there has been a rush of reports (including EMU Public Finances 2009, IMF Report on Irish Economy, OECD Economic Outlook …

What did you do during the Great Recession, Grandad?

Slí Eile 18/06/2009

Slí Eile: Some time in the future this question will be asked and, perhaps, the answer will be (at least in an Irish context): A small number of us …

Markets and morality

Paul Sweeney 17/06/2009

Paul Sweeney: Markets and morality is an interesting subject. It should be on every economics course, but is probably absent under the narrow regime …

Get ready for the next big thing

Slí Eile 16/06/2009

Sli Eile: This is the conclusion of a writer in the current edition of that internationally respectable journal, Foreign Policy, under ‘Why bad …

Growing our way out of the trap

16/06/2009

This from Ray Kinsella in the Irish Times this morning: "[...] We need to grow our way out of this trap. This means listening and responding to real …

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