Category: Inequality
Inequality and the UK Riots
Aoife Ní Lochlainn 10/08/2011
Aoife Ní Lochlainn: Amongst the acres of news coverage devoted to the UK riots, comes an interesting piece of work in the Guardian, ‘Mapping the …
A long malaise
Michael Taft 10/08/2011
Michael Taft: With years of austerity ahead, resulting in weak growth and high unemployment, freezing interest rates and another round of …
Different takes ...
09/08/2011
These two posts from Social Europe Journal are worth a read. George Irwin bemoans the lack of progressive political leadership, while Zygmunt Baumann …
Panic on world markets
Michael Burke 05/08/2011
Michael Burke: International business news and other TV channels are offering a Babel-like interpretation of the current slump in world financial …
Stiglitz on a 'contagion of bad ideas'
05/08/2011
"The Great Recession of 2008 has morphed into the North Atlantic Recession: it is mainly Europe and the United States, not the major emerging …
Education cutbacks bad for economy
Sinéad Pentony 04/08/2011
Sinéad Pentony: Today’s news that class sizes are set to increase highlights the shortsightedness of responses to the fiscal crisis. As in many …
Questions that should be put to the Minister
Michael Taft 27/07/2011
Michael Taft: The Cabinet has approved the interim Household Charge of €100, designed to ‘raise’ €160 million from 1.8 million households. …
All roads lead to Berlin
Michael Burke 25/07/2011
Michael Burke: The details of the latest EU Summit remain sketchy and on the surface overwhelmingly relate to Greece alone. The Agreement reached by …
The butler did it
Michael Taft 14/07/2011
Michael Taft: On Morning Ireland, Fergal O’Brien, economist from IBEC, stated: “Austerity is not killing the economy." Oh. We are treading into, …
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