Tagged with: regulation
Lost in percentages
Sean McCabe 11/05/2020
Time is running out There remains only a small window of opportunity to enact the necessary climate action required to avoid catastrophic climate change. Human activities since the beginning of industrialisation have led to an average increase in global temperatures of 1oC. A further half a degree rise in global temperatures would have …
Ireland Must Find its Voice in Protecting Global Privacy
Tyler West 27/05/2018
The revelation that Cambridge Analytica was able to secretly obtain millions of Facebook users’ data to assist Donald Trump’s presidential …
Time to Break Up the Monopolies
Paul Sweeney 26/05/2017
A major reform which helped saved capitalism from collapse was regular decisions to break-up trusts or large companies. The 1890 Sherman Antitrust …
Airbnb: Sharing, Disrupting or Predator?
Paul Sweeney 13/02/2017
Airbnb argues that “Airbnb and our community are part of the new Collaborative or Sharing Economy, a movement that enables people to access new …
Brexit: What does Teresa May’s veiled Brexit threat really mean?
Paul Sweeney 18/01/2017
Brexit is a slow train crash. Most damage will be done to Britain, but some damage will be done to the European project and to the other European 27 …
Ethics and regulation: complements, not alternatives
15/05/2013
Last week former Taoiseach and President of IFSC Ireland, John Bruton, said that the banking industry needed "to focus on ethics rather than …
IFSC shadow of its intended self
06/09/2010
In an opinion piece for the Irish Times today, Jim Stewart concludes that "In the short term, changes in tax regimes raise issues for economies …
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Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Jim Stewart
Dr Jim Stewart is Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His research …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …