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Social implications of precarious work
Alicja Bobek 22/03/2017
Since the financial crisis, and through the recovery, we hear more about the increase of precarious work. Precarious employment means insecurity, as …
Northern Ireland's Options to Stay Close to the EU
Nat O'Connor 21/03/2017
At Belfast Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics, I hosted a session: Could Northern Ireland be an independent member of the EU, or have “special …
Beacon South Quarter crisis reflects the worst of Turbo Capitalism
Paul Sweeney 16/03/2017
De-regulation, privatisation, outsourcing, low taxes, bad housing policy, speculation, regressive tax policy, and poor public services reflect turbo …
The strange non-death of public spending
Andrew Watt 15/03/2017
In 2011 Colin Crouch wrote a noted book entitled The strange non-death of neoliberalism. In it he discussed why neoliberalism had managed to avoid …
Time to make AIB an Irish citizens' bank
Paul Sweeney 13/03/2017
The Government strategy for privatising AIB has focused solely on the art of the deal – the price, how much to sell, and when to sell our 99 per …
Company law as another beggar-my-neighbour policy?
Jan Cremers 12/03/2017
Since the introduction of the European internal market, company law has been increasingly judged in terms of its impact on ‘competitiveness’. …
Where should MNC profits be taxed?
Proinnsias Breathnach 03/03/2017
The role of intellectual property (IP) rights in the tax avoidance strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs) in general, and Apple in …
Bill Gates Proposes a Tax on Robots
Paul Sweeney 22/02/2017
There has been a lot of media discussion recently about the increasing possibility of robots displacing workers. When Bill Gates, founder of …
The Rich Will Always Be With Us?
Nat O'Connor 20/02/2017
Programmer, investor and essayist Paul Graham has written a thoughtful counter-argument about economic inequality (link). It is worth reading in …
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Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …