Category: Fiscal policy
Tell me: Are we out of recession yet and what can be done?
Tom O'Connor 01/04/2011
Tom O'Connor: The banking crisis is topical. Unemployment isn't and hasn't been in the last three years. This blindness towards unemployment and …
Innovation, rather than high-tech, is key
David Jacobson 25/03/2011
David Jacobson: In 1990, in a paper on MNCs in Ireland, I argued that the “completion of the single market” in 1992 would bring pressures on …
Pavlov's dogs and barking mad economics
Michael Burke 25/03/2011
Michael Burke: Ivan Pavlov and his work are widely misunderstood. In English he is most usually associated with the phrase ‘Pavlov’s Dogs’ , …
The murky world of Exchequer statistics
Michael Taft 03/03/2011
Michael Taft: I don’t want to pre-empt An Saoi’s more informed analysis of Exchequer returns, but there are some real issues emerging even at …
'Job Pact', not 'Competitiveness Pact'
Tom McDonnell 15/02/2011
Tom McDonnell: Useful post (here) from Andrew Watt. He looks at the latest uninspiring growth figures in Europe (0.3% quarter-on-quarter in the euro …
Who benefits?
Michael Burke 10/02/2011
Michael Burke: This is from the IMF’s latest Interim Staff Report (in effect making sure the Dublin government is doing as it’s told). To quote …
Where did it all go wrong?
Michael Burke 02/02/2011
Michael Burke: The Central Bank’s latest Quarterly Bulletin contains a sharp reduction in its growth forecasts. It is now forecasting 1.0% GDP in …
The Finance Bill and Davos - different discourses
Sinéad Pentony 28/01/2011
Sinéad Pentony: The Finance Bill will bring the measures announced as part of Budget 2011 into law in the coming days. As the effects of these …
Not just for Section 23: Economic analysis and the Budget
Tom McDonnell 26/01/2011
Tom McDonnell: There has been much commentary in the last week about the Government’s decision to roll back on its commitment to end the Section 23 …
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Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Nat O'Connor
Dr Nat O’Connor is Assistant Professor of Social Policy at UCD, a fellow of the UCD …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …