After a bruising election campaign Sarah Feeney’s party has won the general election and she has just been elected Taoiseach.
Sarah has a lot of priorities. She wants to reduce unemployment, raise living standards and protect the environment. People are complaining about rising prices and she promised during the election that she would reduce infl ation before it gets out of control.
Understanding how the economy works and how the government can infl uence the economy will be very important to Sarah in her new job. This chapter will tell her what she needs to know.
