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The Irish Entrepreneurial State
Paul Sweeney 11/06/2018
In my last blog I looked at the Wild Atlantic Way as a good example of entrepreneurial thinking by public employees of the Irish state. Mariana Mazzucato has pointed out how many so-called private innovations were actually state-led and state-funded. My point, like Mazzucato’s, is to address the anti-public sector bias which dominates …
Unaffordable commentary
Michael Taft 23/05/2010
Michael Taft: We will never find the answers to our severe economic problems until we ground our debate in facts. Take the issue of wages and labour …
Why wage cuts are not a good thing
23/07/2009
This post was written by Professor Terrence McDonough of the Department of Economics in NUIG in May. Given the current debate on pay levels (whether …
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 …
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Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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