Posts by Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney @sweeneyr82
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish political economy and distribution. He has a PhD in economics from University of Leeds, which concentrated on financial markets and investors, banking, international macroeconomics, and housing. He is also interested in debates on alternative schools and methodology in economics, and ownership.
Inequality in Ireland today
Robert Sweeney 11/02/2019
A previous blog looked at the broad contours of inequality in Ireland today. What we found was that (i) inequality has grown here (ii) Ireland now ranks in the middle among European countries as other countries have become much more unequal and (iii) Ireland has unusually high levels of market inequality. Here we probe the matter further by …
Inequality in Ireland today
Robert Sweeney 16/01/2019
With continuing housing crises, health crises, inadequate childcare, climate change inaction, there’s no shortage of public policy emergencies …
Public spending and services in the years to come
Robert Sweeney 30/10/2018
With the dust settling on the recent budget, it is a good time to take stock of Irish economic policy, current and future. In June, the Department of …
Living wage
Robert Sweeney 17/07/2018
LAST WEEK THE Living Wage Technical Group published an update of the living wage in Ireland. The living wage calculates the wage needed to live a …
Towards a fair and efficient tax regime
Robert Sweeney 20/04/2018
Successive EU treaties on the one hand, and the ability of the ECB to pull the rug from under naughty nations on the other, implies that the level …
GDP and its alternatives
Robert Sweeney 04/04/2018
Perhaps no other single number or indicator receives as much attention as the total output of an economy. The standard measure for this is gross …
Raising employment
Robert Sweeney 16/03/2018
The issue of pay and employment props up occasionally in public discourse but rarely receives the attention it merits. With international women’s …
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