Category: Inequality
Tallaght Hospital controversy: An apposite quote
An tSaoi 14/03/2010
An Saoi: I recently came across the following comment from an interview with Dr. Giovanni Berlinguer, professor of Social Medicine and younger …
The inequality cascade
18/02/2010
Over on Irish Economy, Philip Lane links to this graph from the Economist website, showing the likelihood of a son with a university-educated father …
Progressive Economy Review 2009 - out now!
14/01/2010
A selection of posts written during 2009 has been published as Progressive-Economy@TASC 2009 Review. The digital edition is available here:
Rising tides, luxury yachts and leaky fishing boats
James Wickham 11/01/2010
James Wickham: Everyone assumes that the aim of economic policy must be to return to "growth". But more than ever, we need to ask what sort of …
Effective tax rates in Ireland
Proinnsias Breathnach 11/01/2010
Proinnsias Breathnach: I sent the following letter to the Irish Times in early December, but like my article on competitiveness, it failed to make it …
Budget 2010: landlords 1, SW recipients nil
16/12/2009
in 2010, the savings made by cutting Social Welfare will be almost exactly the same as the spend on tax breaks for landlords (SW saving = €809 …
'Unfair, unjust Budget fails the vulnerable, damages the economy'
Slí Eile 13/12/2009
Slí Eile: In an excellent and hard-hitting analysis and critique of Budget 2010 (the Irish one) by Social Justice Ireland (formerly CORI Justice) …
Social Justice Conference on Measuring Well-being
Slí Eile 18/11/2009
Slí Eile: Social Justice Ireland hosted a conference on measuring well-being (Beyond GDP: What is progress and how should it be measured?). All the …
Defend the poor and the marginalised
Slí Eile 18/11/2009
Slí Eile: Even when Ireland recently enjoyed the status of being the sixth wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita it was not, …
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Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
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Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …