Book Launch: 'UPSETTING THE APPLE CART' - edited by David Jacobson, Prof. Emeritus, DCU Business School

'Upsetting the Applecart: Tax-Based Industrial Policy for Ireland and Europe', edited by David Jacobson, Professor Emeritus of DCU Business School, examines the role of multinational enterprises in increasing inequality.

Its expert authors offer a radical new analysis of the issues including the ineffective taxation of multi-national enterprises, tax avoidance through widespread use of tax havens in Ireland and elsewhere, and the need for an alternative and effective industrial policy.

The book launch will include contributions from expert speakers followed by a panel discussion with the book's authors.

Key Speakers:

Keynote Speaker, Simon Bowers, Investigative Journalist

Justin Nogarede, Digital Policy Advisor, FEPS

Michael McCarthy Flynn, Senior Research and Policy Coordinator, Oxfam Ireland

David Jacobson, Book Editor and Professor Emeritus of DCU Business School

Panel Discussion with Book Authors:

David Jacobson, Professor Emeritus of DCU Business School

Esmé Berkhout, Policy Advisor on Tax Justice and Inequality, Oxfam

James Stewart, Professor of Finance, TCD Business School

Eoin O'Malley, Economist and Member of TASC's Industrial Policy Commission

Moderator: Sean O’Riain, Professor of Sociology, Maynooth University