Category: Inequality
Mental well-being and inequality
Tom McDonnell 02/09/2011
Tom McDonnell: Richard Layte of the ESRI reports some interesting results on the association between income inequality and mental well-being here. He …
Austerity the wrong medicine?
19/08/2011
A quick link to Robert Reich's post on Social Europe Journal here.
"This is a system in deep trouble"
Sinéad Pentony 15/08/2011
Sinéad Pentony: In The Guardian, Larry Elliott argues that “only a new way of managing the global economy can prevent more mayhem in the market …
Inequality and the UK Riots
Aoife Ní Lochlainn 10/08/2011
Aoife Ní Lochlainn: Amongst the acres of news coverage devoted to the UK riots, comes an interesting piece of work in the Guardian, ‘Mapping the …
A long malaise
Michael Taft 10/08/2011
Michael Taft: With years of austerity ahead, resulting in weak growth and high unemployment, freezing interest rates and another round of …
Different takes ...
09/08/2011
These two posts from Social Europe Journal are worth a read. George Irwin bemoans the lack of progressive political leadership, while Zygmunt Baumann …
Panic on world markets
Michael Burke 05/08/2011
Michael Burke: International business news and other TV channels are offering a Babel-like interpretation of the current slump in world financial …
Stiglitz on a 'contagion of bad ideas'
05/08/2011
"The Great Recession of 2008 has morphed into the North Atlantic Recession: it is mainly Europe and the United States, not the major emerging …
Education cutbacks bad for economy
Sinéad Pentony 04/08/2011
Sinéad Pentony: Today’s news that class sizes are set to increase highlights the shortsightedness of responses to the fiscal crisis. As in many …
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