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More Cutting Times (Rent Supplement)

Nat O'Connor 29/06/2009

Nat O'Connor: Today’s Irish Times suggests that rent supplement (along with child benefit) is being targeted for cuts by the Special Group on …

Cutting times?

28/06/2009

Today's Sunday Tribune leads with leaked reports of the cuts likely to be proposed by 'An Bord Snip Nua'. Click here to read the story, and here to …

Krugman on macroeconomics and the 'Great Ignorance'

27/06/2009

"Doing what I think of as real macroeconomics — the tradition that runs through Keynes and Hicks — actually involves thinking about …

"The only show in town?"

Slí Eile 25/06/2009

Slí Eile: In recent days, there has been a rush of reports (including EMU Public Finances 2009, IMF Report on Irish Economy, OECD Economic Outlook …

The burdens of a low tax society

Slí Eile 24/06/2009

Sli Eile: Received wisdom in political economy establishment thinking here in Ireland is that taxes are a ‘burden’ (in other words not nice and …

Irish Industrial Policy: Strategic Obsessions

David Jacobson 23/06/2009

David Jacobson: Since the end of the 1950s industrial policy has evolved around two main objectives, the encouragement of foreign direct investment …

E-book for download - The crash: A view from the left

22/06/2009

Edited by Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford, The crash: A view from the left offers an alternative perspective to the dominant economic paradigm. …

Can Anglo-Irish be saved?

Dóchas 19/06/2009

Dóchas: Question: Should Anglo’s debts have been guaranteed, i.e. should it have been allowed to fail in September and guarantees extended only to …

What did you do during the Great Recession, Grandad?

Slí Eile 18/06/2009

Slí Eile: Some time in the future this question will be asked and, perhaps, the answer will be (at least in an Irish context): A small number of us …

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