Category: Inequality
Unequal societies do encourage criminality
Colm O'Doherty 29/08/2012
Colm O'Doherty: According to Dan O'Brien there is no relationship between inequality and law breaking (Irish Times 24/08/12). This bogus statement is …
Scale of inequality now a drag on our economy and well-being
Colm O'Doherty 09/08/2012
Colm O'Doherty: The results from the Central Statistics Office Survey of Income and living Conditions 2010, released earlier this year, confirmed …
Guest post by Vic Duggan: 'Baltic Miracle' no model for Ireland and peripheral Europe
Vic Duggan 12/07/2012
Vic Duggan: Europe’s policy response to the ongoing sovereign debt and banking crises on the continent’s periphery appears to be in suspended …
Bathing the rich
Michael Taft 10/07/2012
Michael Taft: Okay, so you’re not one of those who believe in soaking the rich. But what about bathing? A good bath is healthy for the body and the …
Investment strategies and economic recovery
05/07/2012
TASC hosted its third lunchtime seminar yesterday. Tom Healy, Director of the Nevin Economic Research Institute, gave an interesting presentation on …
The advocates of austerity are now calling for growth
Paul Sweeney 20/06/2012
Paul Sweeney: When all of the advocates of austerity are now calling for growth as well as more cuts, is it no wonder the public is confused? The …
Innovation policy and perfomance in Ireland
Sinéad Pentony 14/06/2012
Sinéad Pentony: TASC hosted its second lunchtime seminar yesterday. Professor David Jacobson examined the issue of innovation policy and performance …
Fiddling while Europe burns
Paul Sweeney 07/06/2012
Paul Sweeney: Today’s Financial Times tells us that in an effort to persuade Spain to accept a bailout, “unlike earlier bailouts for Greece, …
Joseph Stiglitz on the price of inequality
06/06/2012
[...] America has the highest level of inequality of any of the advanced countries – and its gap with the rest has been widening. In the …
Categories
Contributors
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …