Category: Economics
'We've screwed up - that's the truth'
Slí Eile 04/05/2009
Sli Eile: ‘We’ve screwed up – that’s the truth’ – so writes Professor Ray Kinsella of the UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School in the …
Wealth in a downturn
Paul Sweeney 29/04/2009
Paul Sweeney: Most of the banks and financial sector economists, especially those paid under the banks’ Marketing Budgets (as apposed to those bank …
Low corporate taxes and poverty
Slí Eile 27/04/2009
Sli Eile: In a letter to the Irish Times, Justin Kilcullen of Trócaire imagines what it would be like if ‘thousands of Africans, Asians, and Latin …
Back to the future
Slí Eile 22/04/2009
Sli Eile: John Maynard Keynes, speaking in UCD in 1933, praised the self-sufficiency policies of various countries including, at the time, ‘Italy, …
Budget 2009, ODA and Guru George
22/04/2009
The effects of the recent Budget will be felt in the developing world as well as here in Ireland - click here for Oxfam's response to the ODA …
Erin Go Broke? Krugman's NT Times piece - and some reaction
20/04/2009
Paul Krugman has an opinion piece in today's New York Times, arguing - among other points made - that "As far as responding to the recession goes, …
Analysing credit
An tSaoi 18/04/2009
An Saoi: Let us assume that the Irish economy will decline by more than 10% in 2009 and that the consumer price index will also fall by around 7%. …
The budget, the over-fifties and the under-fives
Jim Stewart 15/04/2009
Jim Stewart: The recent supplementary budget, while removing a considerable amount of income from almost everyone, also treated some groups in …
Who is Lawrence Summers?
David Jacobson 10/04/2009
David Jacobson: A New York Times article on 3rd April reveals that Lawrence H. Summers, top economic advisor to Obama, earned millions of dollars …
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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 …
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