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Austerity: time for a Plan B?

category dublin | miscellaneous | event notice author Tuesday March 06, 2012 08:15author by library Report this post to the editors

Michael Taft, Central Library 08/03 @ 1.00

Well known blogger and economic and social anaylyst Michael Taft is due to give a talk on the alternatives to this governments policies of Austerity and cut backs.

What is the alternative to resource withdrawals, service reduction, privitisation and general belt tightening? And how do we get from here to there?
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Michael Taft is a political and economics researcher at Unite, the trade union. He blogs at http://notesonthefront.typepad.com and www.progressive-economy.ie and is part of the TASC network of economists.

Part of a series of lunchtime talks taking place each Thursday in March at 1pm in the Central Library, ILAC Centre. The series addresses questions around the Irish Economy. How we have reached the point we are now at, what the policy of successive governments has been and what effect these policies have had. Contributors include noted economists, journalists and historians.

Booking: 01 873 4333 openlearning[at]dublincity[dot]ie

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