Is Ireland really the role model for austerity? | Stephen Kinsella | Cambridge Journal of Economics
Abstract
This paper describes the causes and consequences of Ireland’s economic crisis in the context of the policy solution implemented to contain that crisis: protracted fiscal austerity. I describe the causes of the recent crisis in Ireland and look [...]

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success | Anu Partanen
[You could easily replace "Americans" -- both in the title and throughout the article -- with "Ruairí Quinn" -- Tombuktu]
One of the hottest trends in education reform lately is looking at the stunning success of the West’s reigning education superpower, Finland. Trouble is, when it [...]

[The following paragraph is an extract from a comment by Gerard Murphy, made in a discussion on Cedar Lounge Revolution. It draws on research he did at UL. A paper from the UL journal 'Socheolas' is available (PDF) here.]
Gerard Murphy | Framing Propaganda: Print Media Coverage of Irish Public Service Workers
In addition the research [...]

“Demands” by Chris Dillow at Stumbling and Mumbling
James Bloodworth’s post, entitled “some basic demands the left must start to make” raises a longstanding peeve of mine.
This is that the use of the word “demand” — which has long been common on the left and among trades unions — is a terrible rhetorical strategy. People who [...]

Piketty, Saez, and Stantcheva | Taxing the 1%: Why the top tax rate could be over 80%
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At a time when most OECD countries face large deficits and debt burdens, a crucial public policy question is whether governments should tax high earners more. The potential tax revenue at stake is now very large. For example, [...]

300 economists give support for the Occupy Wall Street movement
On November 13th 2011, economists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst issued an open statement pledging support to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Since then about 300 economists have added their names. Below is the statement of support and the alphabetized list of economists who have [...]

[The full report is available as a 144-page PDF. The "Double Irish" "Dutch Sandwich" is mentioned. This post contains the introduction]
Global Corporate Taxation and Resources for Quality Public Services
Edited by Laura Figazzolo and Bob Harris
Published by The Education International Research Institute, Brussels.
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Rationale
The purpose of this project is to highlight, on the basis of existing [...]

Wolfgang Streeck | The Crises of Democratic Capitalism
Vincent Browne in the Sunday Business Post and Fintan O’Toole on Tuesday both wrote about the undemocratic nature of how Merkel and Sarkozy summoned Papandreou to Cannes in order to force him to abandon the democratic process of a referendum on the austerity plan for Greece. Over on [...]

Benjamin Kunkel, Charles Petersen | The Politics of the Poor
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The vague identity of the Occupy Wall Street protests, so much deplored at first, has proven the movement’s greatest strength. The very nature of global capitalism is to break down all “natural” groups. The market allows the strongest (or most craven) members of any identity group [...]

Peter Radford | Thoughts on The Ethics Of Economics
Medicine has its famous injunction: first do no harm. Economics ought to abide by that rule too. It is a massive evasion of responsibility for the profession to continue to plod along as if a few hundred more earnest papers will do the trick. They won’t. The [...]