Category: Fiscal policy
Guest post by Martin O'Dea: Economics for technological acceleration
13/06/2011
Martin O'Dea lectures in Management and Human Resource Management at the Dublin Business School: The internet was a revolution that saw massive …
Negotiating truth
Tom McDonnell 09/06/2011
Tom McDonnell: The FT makes an important point about the supposed independent country assessments produced by bodies like the IMF and the OECD. These …
May is a wicked month
An tSaoi 04/06/2011
An Saoi: The tax figures were released with a range of different views expressed. Read Dan O'Brien as an example of the general tenor of comment. …
Martin Wolf's Intolerable Choices for the Eurozone
02/06/2011
Martin Wolf provides a timely analysis of the Eurozone's options. Wolf argues that ultimately the Eurozone faces a choice between default and partial …
The Gloves are Off!
Sinéad Pentony 27/05/2011
Sinead Pentony: When the Report of the Independent Review of EROs and REA Wage Setting Mechanisms was published on Wednesday, there was a general …
Options on default
Tom O'Connor 12/05/2011
Tom O'Connor: Doomsday scenarios have been painted recently by Prof. Morgan Kelly and others concerning the need to abandon to EU/IMF deal on the one …
A chink of light ...
Michael Burke 11/05/2011
Michael Burke: In the furore about the recent Morgan Kelly article in the Irish Times, in which he advocates a debt default, there has been very …
Stating the facts again .... and again
Michael Taft 10/05/2011
Michael Taft: Apologies for going over this ground again but if employers’ organisations insist on misrepresenting the issues, we have to keep …
Full steam nowhere?
Michael Taft 06/05/2011
Michael Taft: Sometimes we get a set of numbers which leaves us guessing. In some cases, we have someone who can give some insight. On the face of …
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