Posts by Mary Murphy
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Political Imagination and a Laboratory of Social Possibilities
Mary Murphy 28/04/2025
This short blog is an argument for civil society to grow its capacity to incubate alternatives and to promote the idea of a collective ‘laboratory of social possibilities’. The very concept of civil society is a contested one with much debate concerning civil society’s relationship to the state. There can be little doubt that the …
The principle of fair reciprocity can inform taxation in an ecosocial future
Mary Murphy 03/04/2023
This blog was first drafted as the authors speaking notes for a forum ‘The Fiscal Social Contract: How Taxation can be Applied as a Tool for Social …
Gender Impacts of Covid-19
Mary Murphy 14/07/2020
The C-19 pandemic has tracked existing social and economic fault lines. It thrives and lays bare existing inequalities and has been …
Male breadwinner activation, wifely labour and the Irish patriarchy
Mary Murphy 23/05/2018
Writing in the week of the referendum to repeal the 8thReferendum, the cervical check debacle and the shocking violent deaths of two women it …
'Principle of revenue neutrality' proves Government's lack of vision
Mary Murphy 11/09/2009
Mary Murphy: The average percentage of GDP spent on social protection in the EU-15 is 27.5% (Eurostat, 2007) . The Irish rate of 18.2% compares badly …
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Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
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Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …