Category: Economics
Borrow, Tax and Spend?
10/03/2009
“This notion that the economy is self-stabilising is usually right but it is wrong a few times a century. And this is one of those times .
Who’s for some expansionary fiscal contraction?
Peter Connell 10/03/2009
Peter Connell: The mini-budget that we can look forward to in three weeks time will, I’m sure we’ll be told, ‘constitute a necessary first step …
Socio-economic dimensions of the worsening employment picture
Sean Ó Riain 03/03/2009
Sean O Riain: There is a helpful post over at irisheconomy.ie by Brendan Walsh outlining the worsening employment picture as reflected in the latest …
Liberal Policy Choices to Blame for the Crisis
Sean Ó Riain 02/03/2009
Sean O Riain: The dishonesty and incompetence of individuals in charge of running and regulating our financial system has been spectacular. However, …
Trichet's narrow notions of competitiveness
Paul Sweeney 27/02/2009
Paul Sweeney: Yesterday, I got to shake the hand of the 5th most powerful man in the world - reluctantly! Yesterday, JC Trichet, the President of the …
Towards a New Political Economy
Paula Clancy 23/02/2009
Paula Clancy: Welcome to progressive-economy@tasc. Economics has been described as the 'dismal science'. Economists are often stereotyped as …
Pay cuts are neither a panacea nor even a help for Ireland's economic problems
Paul Sweeney 22/02/2009
Paul Sweeney: The remarkable barrage of calls for pay cuts, from both orthodox economists and the "pop economists", as the the solution to (most of) …
Demand (for solutions) will generate supply - in long term
David Jacobson 22/02/2009
David Jacobson: I can’t help wondering why the people whose theories are responsible for the current crisis continue to be listened to by those …
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