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Guest post by Martin O'Dea: Concrete progress
16/12/2010
Martin O'Dea lectures in Management and Human Resource Management at the Dublin Business School There is an understanding of the errors in our …
Slashing the Minimum Wage: Olli made us do it (or: never let facts get in the way)
Tom McDonnell 14/12/2010
Tom McDonnell: Over the weekend, a Government TD insisted on RTE's Week in Politics programme that we should ask Olli Rehn why the minimum wage was …
Only growth can reduce the debt
Michael Burke 13/12/2010
Michael Burke: Over on Irish Ecoomy, Karl Whelan has initiated a useful discussion highlighting some of the differences between EU Commission and …
Beware economists bearing models
13/12/2010
The following is abridged from a post that appears on Notes on the Front. See also Nat O'Connor's post here. Michael Taft: So the 2011 budget is …
Guest post by Gerard Doyle and Tanya Lalor: Getting more bang for your buck
13/12/2010
In this guest post, Gerard Doyle and Tanya Lalor of TSA Consultancy make the case for social enterprise to be part of any future stimulus programme. …
Progressive Austerity?
Nat O'Connor 10/12/2010
Nat O'Connor: There has been a flurry of calculations about the effect of Budget 2011. One technical, but important, point is that our income tax …
TASC analysis of Budget 2011
09/12/2010
TASC has issued its analysis of Budget 2011; you can download a PDF of the document here. Comments?
A Merry Christmas for plutocrats
Tom McDonnell 08/12/2010
Tom McDonnell: TASC will be releasing a full budget response tomorrow. In the meantime feast your eyes on some good news for all of you single, …
Budget 2011: biggest fiscal consolidation ever
Paul Sweeney 08/12/2010
Paul Sweeney: The 2011 Budget is the biggest fiscal consolidation imposed by any government in the developed world since the Second World War. It …
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Robert Sweeney
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …