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Category: Inequality

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 …

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 …

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