Category: Economics
The Anatomy of a Crisis
Robert Sweeney 30/03/2020
A Look Back at the 2008 Crisis These are unchartered waters. Ireland is now in effective lockdown. As the dust settles on the enormity of the health crisis, the economic challenge we face is similarly formidable. The ESRI warns that unemployment could peak at 18% this year, that incomes over the year will fall by 7%, and that public finances will …
Coronavirus: It can’t be politics as usual if we are to survive
Shana Cohen 19/03/2020
Coronavirus has shown that there has never been a more important time to shift from the politics of me to the politics of us – but are our …
The EU’s Inane Fiscal Rules are finally relaxed
Paul Sweeney 18/03/2020
At last, the inane Fiscal Rules are to be relaxed. It took the Covid19 crisis to force this action by the EU leadership. In a recent blog I set out …
Agenda for a Progressive Finance Minister
Paul Sweeney 05/02/2020
The possibility of a progressive government allows us to dream of very serious reforms by a progressive Minister for Finance. These are some …
Reforming the EU
Paul Sweeney 07/01/2020
An EU rule which must be radically reformed is the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). It is a set of rules intended to ensure member states in the …
The Future of Work in Rural Communities in Ireland
Sean McCabe 13/12/2019
The Carnegie UK Trust-TASC Ensuring Good Future Jobs essay collection describes many of the key challenges faced by workers in Ireland today, and …
Ireland’s recovery
Paul Sweeney 24/10/2019
If procyclical domestic policies inflated Ireland’s economic bubble, procyclical austerity demanded by the troika makes Ireland’s recovery all …
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