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Category: Inequality

FEPS / TASC Seminar on 'Stimulating Recovery'

10/06/2010

Speakers at a seminar organised by TASC and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) today emphasised the need for an investment …

TASC launches 'Failed Design? Ireland's Finance Acts and their Role in the Crisis'

05/05/2010

This morning, TASC launched Failed Design? Ireland's Finance Acts and their Role in the Crisis. The accompanying press statement is available here. …

Bankers and inequality

Paul Sweeney 21/04/2010

Paul Sweeney: New research from the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performances shows that in the decade from 1998, the top 10 per cent of workers in …

Ich bin ein Berliner

Slí Eile 20/04/2010

Slí Eile: Garret got it wrong on 'Hiring economic advisers would have been government's smartest investment' He wrote: In particular, there is no …

Fine Gael's Economics

Nat O'Connor 12/04/2010

Nat O'Connor: Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny is quoted as saying that Richard Bruton will be Minister for Finance under any FG-led government and that …

Guest post by Eoin O Broin: An agenda for a new Ireland

Eoin Ó Broin 09/04/2010

Eoin O Broin: Every year one of Ireland’s leading anti-poverty groups, Social Justice Ireland (formerly known as CORI Justice) produces a social …

Guest Post by Gerry O'Hanlon S.J.: Asking the Right Question

Gerry O’Hanlon 29/03/2010

Gerry O’Hanlon: We are understandably concerned about economic recovery in Ireland these days. But given that ‘recovery’ might be taken to …

Creating a smart society

Colm O'Doherty 23/03/2010

Colm O'Doherty: The grade inflation in the formal education system controversy failed to get to grips with the critical issue around what constitutes …

Options for future economic policy in the EU

Slí Eile 16/03/2010

Slí Eile: I very much agree with Paul Sweeney, writing on this blog site recently It seems to me that we need more effective EU institutions. We …

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