Category: Economics
If Apple won’t pay tax what hope is there for civilisation?
Paul Sweeney 04/02/2017
Multinationals owe responsibility to a wider group than their shareholders. As the Apple tax case moves towards the European Union courts, €13 …
How policy is driving precarious work for professionals in childcare and higher education
Sinead Pembroke 17/01/2017
How much do we know about the working conditions of the educators who look after and teach our children, our family members and ourselves? For the …
Women at Work in Ireland
Paul Sweeney 03/01/2017
Did you know that until 1973 if a woman got married in the Irish civil service, she had to resign so that a man or single woman could take her job? …
A Progressive Development (growth) Policy for Europe
Paul Sweeney 29/11/2016
Did you know that last year 22.9 million people in the EU were unemployed, of which, a staggering 10.9 million people were long-term unemployed. At …
Is an Irish Trump possible?
Rory Hearne 25/11/2016
Trump’s election should make us reflect about our own national and regional economic and political situations and contexts. Trump’s success has …
A spiral out of control
Rory Hearne 11/11/2016
The Minister for Housing, Simon Coveney, indicated yesterday that he is not going to introduce rent regulation/certainty as it might deter the …
Much Progress on Costly and Wasteful Tax Breaks but Radical Change is now Needed.
Paul Sweeney 08/11/2016
Paul Sweeney: There has been much progress in getting rid of the most wasteful and destructive tax breaks, but many remain. Indeed a radical approach …
The difference a welfare state makes
James Wickham 13/10/2016
James Wickham: Two charts that tell very different stories about inequality in Ireland today… Both charts show the Gini coefficient of income …
Corporate Social Responsibility -the first casualty in Apple ‘truth fight’
Colm O'Doherty 17/09/2016
Colm O'Doherty: Viewed through a Corporate Social Responsibility lens the behaviour of the Irish State and Apple does not stand up to scrutiny. …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …