Category: Economics
Stimulus for Development
Sean Ó Riain 30/03/2009
Sean O Riain: Commentators across the spectrum have worried that the April budget will tax and cut so much money out of the economy that we will face …
Preparing low and middle income earners for higher income tax
Peter Connell 27/03/2009
Peter Connell: In last Fridays’s Irish Times Colm Keena, in an article entitled ‘Income data understate contribution of lower and middle-income …
What about R&D policy?
Peadar Kirby 26/03/2009
Peadar Kirby: Amid all the focus on the flood of different reports on the Irish economy, and the battle between the slash and burn brigade and the …
Responding to the crisis
24/03/2009
It can be hard to see beyond the impending budget and the rising crescendo of voices clamouring for cutting our way out of the present gathering …
Stimulus
24/03/2009
1 One of the key arguments against a stimulus package in Ireland is that additional public spending will leak out through imports. In other words …
Getting ideological
Paula Clancy 20/03/2009
Paula Clancy: David Quinn is right about one thing: we do need to start asking ourselves what kind of society we want when we come out of the current …
Auditors: one of the guilty parties?
David Jacobson 18/03/2009
David Jacobson: As the crisis progresses (or should that be ‘regresses’?), analyses of its aetiology will no doubt develop in their complexity …
Pay Cuts and Deflation
Paul Sweeney 17/03/2009
Paul Sweeney: Many economists and commentators are still arguing, very strongly and with great certainty, that pay cuts will be the major part of the …
Values, Prices and Economics
12/03/2009
Oscar Wilde once complained that 'economists know the price of everything but the value of nothing'. Well, the same could be said about current day …
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Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …