Category: Economics
Trichet's narrow notions of competitiveness
Paul Sweeney 27/02/2009
Paul Sweeney: Yesterday, I got to shake the hand of the 5th most powerful man in the world - reluctantly! Yesterday, JC Trichet, the President of the …
Towards a New Political Economy
Paula Clancy 23/02/2009
Paula Clancy: Welcome to progressive-economy@tasc. Economics has been described as the 'dismal science'. Economists are often stereotyped as …
Pay cuts are neither a panacea nor even a help for Ireland's economic problems
Paul Sweeney 22/02/2009
Paul Sweeney: The remarkable barrage of calls for pay cuts, from both orthodox economists and the "pop economists", as the the solution to (most of) …
Demand (for solutions) will generate supply - in long term
David Jacobson 22/02/2009
David Jacobson: I can’t help wondering why the people whose theories are responsible for the current crisis continue to be listened to by those …
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Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
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Vic Duggan
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Nat O'Connor
Dr Nat O’Connor is Assistant Professor of Social Policy at UCD, a fellow of the UCD …