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Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a President of the Statistical and Social Enquiry Society of Ireland, former member of the Economic Committee of the ETUC, a member of the National Competitiveness Council of Ireland, the National Statistics Board, the ESB, TUAC, (advisor to OECD) and several other bodies. He has written three books on the Irish economy and two on public enterprise, including The Celtic Tiger; Ireland’s Economic Miracle Explained and Selling Out: Privatisation in Ireland, chapters in other books and many articles on economics.


Eircom: topsy-turvey economics

Paul Sweeney 20/04/2009

Paul Sweeney: The bid last week for Eircom is yet another nail in the coffin of the Anglo Saxon model of liberal economics. Even Fine Gael called for …

Economic impact of radical reform of 'shareholder value' in company law

Paul Sweeney 06/04/2009

Paul Sweeney: A couple of weeks ago, David Jacobson raised the issue of the conflicts which the auditing profession can have, and how its role can be …

Pay Cuts and Deflation

Paul Sweeney 17/03/2009

Paul Sweeney: Many economists and commentators are still arguing, very strongly and with great certainty, that pay cuts will be the major part of the …

Trichet's narrow notions of competitiveness

Paul Sweeney 27/02/2009

Paul Sweeney: Yesterday, I got to shake the hand of the 5th most powerful man in the world - reluctantly! Yesterday, JC Trichet, the President of the …

Pay cuts are neither a panacea nor even a help for Ireland's economic problems

Paul Sweeney 22/02/2009

Paul Sweeney: The remarkable barrage of calls for pay cuts, from both orthodox economists and the "pop economists", as the the solution to (most of) …

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