Category: Economics

TASC leads with intersectionality on inequality, isolation and loneliness

Maisie Greener 30/06/2025

TASC’s flagship annual report, The State We Are In: Inequality in Ireland 2025, highlights inequality as a central issue for both economic research and policymaking. While Ireland’s challenges mirror global trends, they are also shaped by uniquely local factors. This year’s report explores the short-term relief brought by recent …

The EU Minimum Wage Directive: To Be or Not to Be?

Roland Erne 26/02/2025

The year began dramatically for Social Europe. On 14 January, Nicholas Emiliou, one of the European Union’s Advocates General, advised the Court of …

Reviewing Inequality: Understanding Piketty’s Latest Insights on Wealth, Power, and Justice

Paul Sweeney 30/01/2025

Thomas Piketty, was dubbed the "rock star economist" after his best-selling book "Capital in the 21st Century" was published in 2014. It was …

The Ways to Address Core Inequality - Market Inequality.

Paul Sweeney 16/04/2024

It was seen in the last blog on Market Inequality that there are a number of factors creating the problem. The first issue is that the distribution …

Automatic Enrolment: Risk and Returns

Jim Stewart 23/01/2024

As AE is a funded scheme, the accumulated lump sum and future pension payments are a direct function of contributions and the return on these …

Major Issues where Mainstream Economists Failed - Part 1

Paul Sweeney 04/07/2023

In the last blog, I examined the President of Ireland's speech critical of the lack of heterodoxy (or differences) in Irish economics. I argued that …

Neo-Liberalism and Neo Classical Economics in Ireland

Paul Sweeney 12/06/2023

The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins' speech at the 21th of anniversary of TASC in April 2023, caused a lot of reaction from mainstream …

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