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The Future Ireland Already Spent

Two articles this week frame AI as a story you can choose to believe: the Guardian names the absolutism, The Journal performs the official Irish …

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The Plan That Never Says Ireland

The World Inequality Lab's Global Justice Report is the first fully quantified plan to treat inequality compression as a precondition for keeping the planet habitable: …

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The Standards Were Never Meant to Be Met

Irish public-policy standards are not aspirational goals being inadequately pursued. They are theatrical artefacts written with engineered holes by the lobbyists who help draft them, …

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The Wealth Tax Ireland Already Has

Ireland implements a 15% minimum effective tax on multinationals via OECD Pillar Two. The same logic applied to individuals worth over 100 million euros is …

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What the Finance Minister Already Knew

Paschal Donohoe reviewed Piketty's Capital and Ideology in The Irish Times in March 2020 and concluded Piketty triumphs. The Irish political class has read the …

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