Category: Fiscal policy
Power, Trust and the Household Charge
Sheila Killian 16/04/2012
Sheila Killian: This afternoon Erich Kirchler gave a very interesting seminar here at the Kemmy Business School on the factors that affect taxpayer …
The clouding effect of international tax avoidance
Sheila Killian 05/04/2012
Sheila Killian: In the Central Bank’s most recent Quarterly Bulletin, released today, Mary Everett does a good analysis of the impact of …
Michael O'Sullivan on the European project
30/03/2012
Michael O'Sullivan, author of 'Ireland and the Global question', has an interesting opinion piece in today's Financial Times.
Dishonesty and the 'structural deficit'
Michael Burke 26/03/2012
Michael Burke: An article in the Irish Times by Stephen Collins which asserts that the new Treaty “seeks to do is to put an end to the kind of …
Government spending policy is deepening the crisis
Michael Burke 23/03/2012
Michael Burke: The latest national accounts data are worse than they look. The headlines have been about a ‘technical return’ to recession with …
Ireland's funding options: Time to end the 'race-to-disaster' debate
Michael Taft, Tom McDonnell 20/03/2012
Tom McDonnell & Michael Taft: Even before the wording has been published and a referendum date named there is one issue that looks set to …
Nama Wine Lake on the Promissory Notes
Tom McDonnell 20/03/2012
Tom McDonnell: Here is a timely recap by Nama Wine Lake of the grotesque farce that is the Anglo promissory note debacle.
The Alcohol Industry - A case study of health versus wealth
Nat O'Connor 16/03/2012
Nat O'Connor: The recently completed (Feb 2012) Steering Group Report On a National Substance Misuse Strategy has taken a public health approach to …
Cleaning up the debate
Michael Taft 13/03/2012
Michael Taft: In Saturday’s Irish Times Stephen Collins wrote: ‘Far from outlawing Keynesian economics, what the treaty seeks to do is to put an …
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