Month: November 2007
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Strolling Around the Block
If you’ve been around the block enough times you will learn many things: from the smile on Mrs. Murphy’s face you can guage how well she’s getting on with her…
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Duelling Graphs (or the 64 cent argument)
Cathal O’Loghlin, writing in the Sunday Business Post, gave us much to ponder, outlining the difficult choices that any Minister for Finance would face given the deteriorating budget finances. But…
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Recognising Recognition
Raise corporation tax? Introduce legal right to trade union representation? Whoever makes these arguments are usually met with a coup de grace: even thinking about doing these things will drive…
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Would You Want His Job?
‘Labour’s going soft on drugs!’ ‘Labour to expel trade unions!’ ‘Labour says, yeah, what the hell, we just might join up with Fine Gael again.’ Would you want Eamon Gilmore’s…
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The Incompetent Competition State
Paedar Kirby is one of the leading proponents of the theory of the ‘competition state’. The concept is that the state subordinates the welfare needs of it citizens in favour…
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What a Cheek!
So, the Minister for Finance, after pocketing a sizeable increase in salary, is now lecturing Irish workers about the dangers to economic growth if they dare seek higher wages. Anymore…
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Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU
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