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An Irish Entrepreneurial State’s Success
Paul Sweeney 25/04/2018
In a recent blog, we saw how economist Mariana Mazzucato demonstrated that it was not the hugely profitable and tax-avoiding tech firms which were the key innovators of some key technologies. The innovation sprung from investment in the US and European publicsectors, such as DARPA and CERN. It was the tech firms which took the public …
Brexit in Numbers for Ireland
Paul Sweeney 07/12/2016
The CSO has published a useful paper on what the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union will mean for Ireland. We have seen that there …
Guest post by Anne O'Brien: Reconstructing the Tourism Economy
Anne O'Brien 11/05/2010
Anne O'Brien: The volcanic ash crisis is not the only problem facing the Irish tourism industry this summer. Other, less dramatic and less publicly …
Finding facts in Fantasy Land
Michael Taft 03/01/2010
Michael Taft: One of my New Year’s resolutions was to spend less time on countering the arguments of the orthodoxy and develop positive analysis …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
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Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …