Category: Fiscal policy
Book review and summary: "Deaths of despair: the future of capitalism"
Paul Sweeney 12/08/2020
This book will give you a greater understanding of why so many people support Donald Trump. It will also shock you with some of the statistics and make you wonder. Anne Case and Angus Deaton are leading economists at Princeton. Deaton won the Nobel prize for economics in 2015. The title of the book comes from the great number of deaths of …
Stimulus package amid pandemic could transform Ireland for the better
Paul Sweeney 23/07/2020
The stimulus package to be announced by the Government this week will be transformative. It could transform Ireland into a better place in which to …
Let's Talk About Pensions
Rosheen Callender 15/06/2020
The Current Pensions Outlook: At a time when so many of us have been hoping to see some new thinking and new directions – on sustainable …
Covid-19, Millennials, and Generation Y'rs
Amie Lajoie 11/06/2020
This post is taken from the introduction of our latest social listening project "Stories of the Pandemic: The Experiences of Millenials and …
Commission proposes European Recovery Fund as part of revised 2021-2017 MFF
Alan Matthews 05/06/2020
-This blog first appeared on on Capreform.eu on 2 June, 2020. The stakes for the European Union have never been higher. In a year when the …
Are we all MMTers now?
Robert Sweeney 01/06/2020
The onset of Co-vid 19 has been met with massive intervention by public authorities around the world. Central banks in particular have …
Covid-19 and Economic Policy
Shana Cohen 19/05/2020
The long-term impact of Covid-19 Three seemingly distinctive trends have emerged from this period: high unemployment rates and financial distress, …
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Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
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Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …