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Privatisation costs
24/11/2009
"Privatising healthcare is a costly business. Increasing privatisation in Ireland has coincided with an increase in health spending of, on average, …
A Social Dis-Grace
Slí Eile 23/11/2009
Slí Eile: "Why, then, is there such an emphasis on cutting public expenditure and on the McCarthy Report (when services in health, education, …
Authoritarian Capitalism
Nat O'Connor 23/11/2009
Nat O'Connor: A Wall Street Journal article raises the question of whether authoritarian capitalism is a robust alternative to liberal democratic …
IMF chief warns on exit strategy
Michael Burke 23/11/2009
Michael Burke: Report in the Financial Times, Monday November 23: "'Economic stimulus programmes, including those in the UK, should not be withdrawn …
The debate elsewhere
Michael Taft 21/11/2009
Michael Taft: With the Government and opposition parties all supporting another round of fiscal contraction (with the exception of Sinn Fein), it's …
Deal fairly and immediately with the fiscal crises
Slí Eile 19/11/2009
Slí Eile: The fiscal deficit mirrors at least two other deficits -a deficit in non-Government investment and spending and a deficit in social …
Unit Labour Costs fall in Ireland in 3 consecutive years
Slí Eile 19/11/2009
Slí Eile: Data released by the OECD shows that Unit Labour Costs (ULC) in Ireland fell in each year 2006, 2007 and 2008 while it grew in nearly all …
Multipliers then and now
Michael Burke 19/11/2009
Michael Burke: There is further evidence that fiscal stimulus works. Kevin O'Rourke has (re)posted here a very interesting piece by Barry Eichengreen …
Social Justice Conference on Measuring Well-being
Slí Eile 18/11/2009
Slí Eile: Social Justice Ireland hosted a conference on measuring well-being (Beyond GDP: What is progress and how should it be measured?). All the …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …