An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence write by Andy Bielenberg. This book was released on 2013-05-20. An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a cogent summary of the economic history of the Irish Free State/Republic of Ireland. It takes the Irish story from the 1920s right through to the present, providing an excellent case study of one of many European states which obtained independence during and after the First World War. The book covers the transition to protectionism and import substitution between the 1930s and the 1950s and the second major transition to trade liberalisation from the 1960s. In a wider European context, the Irish experience since EEC entry in 1973 was the most extreme European example of the achievement of industrialisation through foreign direct investment. The eager adoption of successive governments in recent decades of a neo-liberal economic model, more particularly de-regulation in banking and construction, has recently led the Republic of Ireland to the most extreme economic crash of any western society since the Great Depression.
An Economic History of Ireland Since 1660
An Economic History of Ireland Since 1660 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Economic History of Ireland Since 1660 write by Louis M. Cullen. This book was released on 1978. An Economic History of Ireland Since 1660 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Economic Development of Ireland in the Twentieth Century
The Economic Development of Ireland in the Twentieth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Economic Development of Ireland in the Twentieth Century write by Thomas Giblin. This book was released on 2013-01-11. The Economic Development of Ireland in the Twentieth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines Irish economic development in the twentieth century compared with other European countries. It traces the growth of the Republic's economy from its separation from Britain in the early 1920s through to the present. It assesses the factors which encouraged and inhibited economic development, and concludes with an appraisal of the country's present state and future prospects.
Why Ireland Starved
Why Ireland Starved - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Ireland Starved write by Joel Mokyr. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Why Ireland Starved available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all. While the Northern Atlantic Economy prospered, the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 killed a million and a half people and caused hundreds of thousands to flee the country. Why the Irish economy failed to grow, and ‘why Ireland starved’ remains an unresolved riddle of economic history. Professor Mokyr maintains that the ‘Hungry Forties’ were caused by the overall underdevelopment of the economy during the decades which preceded the famine. In Why Ireland Starved he tests various hypotheses that have been put forward to account for this backwardness. He dismisses widespread arguments that Irish poverty can be explained in terms of over-population, an evil land system or malicious exploitation by the British. Instead, he argues that the causes have to be sought in the low productivity of labor and the insufficient formation of physical capital – results of the peculiar political and social structure of Ireland, continuous conflicts between landlords and tenants, and the rigidity of Irish economic institutions. Mokyr’s methodology is rigorous and quantitative, in the tradition of the New Economic History. It sets out to test hypotheses about the causal connections between economic and non-economic phenomena. Irish history is often heavily coloured by political convictions: of Dutch-Jewish origin, trained in Israel and working in the United States. Mokyr brings to this controversial field not only wide research experience but also impartiality and scientific objectivity. The book is primarily aimed at numerate economic historians, historical demographers, economists specializing in agricultural economics and economic development and specialists in Irish and British nineteenth-century history. The text is, nonetheless, free of technical jargon, with the more complex material relegated to appendixes. Mokyr’s line of reasoning is transparent and has been easily accessible and useful to readers without graduate training in economic theory and econometrics since ists first publication in 1983.
A Rocky Road
A Rocky Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Rocky Road write by Cormac Ó Gráda. This book was released on 1997. A Rocky Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most Irish historians agree that the southern Irish economy performed very badly between 1920 and the early 1960s. This volume critically compares new data for a fresh perspective. While providing a comprehensive narrative for a specialist audience, it also addresses those aspects of the record that are of interest to general readers. 25 illustrations.
