Category: Inequality
How sub-prime bankers 'bought' financial de-regulation in the US
Paul Sweeney 07/05/2009
Paul Sweeney: De-regulation did not just happen. It was bought, partially! So much for the idea that the free marketeers won the battle for ideas …
Wealth in a downturn
Paul Sweeney 29/04/2009
Paul Sweeney: Most of the banks and financial sector economists, especially those paid under the banks’ Marketing Budgets (as apposed to those bank …
Low corporate taxes and poverty
Slí Eile 27/04/2009
Sli Eile: In a letter to the Irish Times, Justin Kilcullen of Trócaire imagines what it would be like if ‘thousands of Africans, Asians, and Latin …
A notice from TASC: recruiting a Head of Policy
24/04/2009
TASC, the 'parent' of this blog, has received grant-aiding from the Atlantic Philanthropies and is working on a major new programme of work. We are …
Budget 2009, ODA and Guru George
22/04/2009
The effects of the recent Budget will be felt in the developing world as well as here in Ireland - click here for Oxfam's response to the ODA …
Rating the Raters
01/04/2009
‘Which is better, health or wealth?’, asks Cardinal Brady, RC Primate of Ireland. Standard and Poor’s (curious name) – the new shadow …
Responding to the crisis
24/03/2009
It can be hard to see beyond the impending budget and the rising crescendo of voices clamouring for cutting our way out of the present gathering …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …