Category: Technology
Ireland needs to upset the Apple cart on corporate tax
David Jacobson 26/10/2018
Ireland has been subject to a great deal of international criticism about its corporate tax regime. While Irish people might feel defensive about this, there are grounds for at least some of this criticism. Ireland’s low-tax regime has forced other countries to reduce their corporate taxes, leading to a “race to the bottom” in corporate tax …
NBP: Problematic privatisation
Donal Palcic 28/09/2018
The roots of the ongoing debacle with the implementation of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) can be traced back to the privatisation of Eircom. …
Ireland Must Find its Voice in Protecting Global Privacy
Tyler West 27/05/2018
The revelation that Cambridge Analytica was able to secretly obtain millions of Facebook users’ data to assist Donald Trump’s presidential …
Time to Break Up the Monopolies
Paul Sweeney 26/05/2017
A major reform which helped saved capitalism from collapse was regular decisions to break-up trusts or large companies. The 1890 Sherman Antitrust …
Globalisation for Slow Learners
Vic Duggan 06/05/2017
The IMF recently published its updated outlook for the global economy. The good news is that recovery from the crisis seems to be finally picking up …
Bill Gates Proposes a Tax on Robots
Paul Sweeney 22/02/2017
There has been a lot of media discussion recently about the increasing possibility of robots displacing workers. When Bill Gates, founder of …
The Impact of Driverless Cars: Blog 2
Paul Sweeney 24/10/2016
Paul Sweeney: In the last blog, it was forecast that driverless cars will be in mass production and in use in less than ten years. In this Blog, I …
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Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
James Stewart
Dr James Stewart is Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His research …
Alicja Bobek
Alicja Bobek has a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, an MA in Sociology and …