Category: Fiscal policy
All roads lead to Berlin
Michael Burke 25/07/2011
Michael Burke: The details of the latest EU Summit remain sketchy and on the surface overwhelmingly relate to Greece alone. The Agreement reached by …
June tax figures
An tSaoi 11/07/2011
An Saoi: The half year tax figures came out during the week and there have been various comments published around them. Constantin Gurdgiev’s piece …
Trapped in an analytical prison
Michael Taft 07/07/2011
Michael Taft: Seamus Coffey has written a provocative post over at Irish Economy on the recent Exchequer statement, showing that Government borrowing …
Chemical solutions to economic problems?
Rory O'Farrell 04/07/2011
Rory O'Farrell: I feel it rare that I have reason to be thankful to the FF/PD government of 2002-2007. However, they had one policy that was so …
Google and the case for broadband investment
Tom McDonnell 28/06/2011
Tom McDonnell: It is too easy in these days of high drama on the European stage to forget the fundamentals that will drive our eventual economic …
Headline growth
Michael Burke 23/06/2011
Michael Burke: Irish Economy Grows Fastest In Three Years, runs one headline on the Blooomberg news agency. It would be great to think that after all …
Cut Rents not Wages to Save Jobs in Retail
Nat O'Connor 23/06/2011
Nat O'Connor: Retail Excellence Ireland (REI) has released a survey of their members, which they contend shows that abolition of the JLC system would …
The need for diversity in policy advice
Peadar Kirby 20/06/2011
Peadar Kirby: When speaking to the NESC on Friday last, the Taoiseach Enda Kenny made a point that, if taken seriously, has the potential to address …
Guest post by Martin O'Dea: Economics for technological acceleration
13/06/2011
Martin O'Dea lectures in Management and Human Resource Management at the Dublin Business School: The internet was a revolution that saw massive …
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