The Irish crash that began in 2008 has been described as one of the most dramatic economic reversals ever experienced by an industrialised country. There is a strong consensus about the economic roots of the crisis: the country experienced a classic asset bubble. Much more difficult to explain however, is how a mature democracy sleep-walked into a crisis that had so much precedent and in retrospect seems to have been so apparent. The policy decisions made in the boom period must shoulder much of the blame, but they were not created in a vacuum. This thesis systematically examines the discourse on the Irish economy from a broad range of commentators in the years prior to the crash, including international and domestic organisations, acad...
The Irish economy enjoyed a long period of sustained growth from roughly 1994 onward, with a corres...
The current international financial crisis, greatly amplified by the collapse of a domestic property...
Ireland’s banking crisis was described by the IMF in early 2009 as matching ‘episodes of the most se...
The Irish crash that began in 2008 has been described as one of the most dramatic economic reversals...
With its fiscal, competitiveness and banking crisis, Ireland is among the most severely affected cou...
The growth of the Irish economy in the years 1995-2007 was dramatic and unparalleled by Western econ...
Prior to 2007, Ireland evolved from one of the poorest countries in Western Europe to one of the mos...
This paper first considers the origins of the Irish economic crisis. It discusses where the policy f...
The return of the Irish Republic to economic growth after years of recession has been hailed as a vi...
?Simon Wren-Lewis?s chapter in this volume outlines a general theory of austerity. Underpinning it i...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the Irish banking crisis and explain how various f...
The international financial crisis manifests itself in Ireland not only as a crisis of the banking s...
A watershed year for the global economic system, the year 2008 also marked the demise of what had be...
Ireland’s acceptance of international financial aid to its stricken finance sector is widely seen in...
non-peer-reviewedIn this paper we outline the features of an emergent resistance in Ireland. We exa...
The Irish economy enjoyed a long period of sustained growth from roughly 1994 onward, with a corres...
The current international financial crisis, greatly amplified by the collapse of a domestic property...
Ireland’s banking crisis was described by the IMF in early 2009 as matching ‘episodes of the most se...
The Irish crash that began in 2008 has been described as one of the most dramatic economic reversals...
With its fiscal, competitiveness and banking crisis, Ireland is among the most severely affected cou...
The growth of the Irish economy in the years 1995-2007 was dramatic and unparalleled by Western econ...
Prior to 2007, Ireland evolved from one of the poorest countries in Western Europe to one of the mos...
This paper first considers the origins of the Irish economic crisis. It discusses where the policy f...
The return of the Irish Republic to economic growth after years of recession has been hailed as a vi...
?Simon Wren-Lewis?s chapter in this volume outlines a general theory of austerity. Underpinning it i...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the Irish banking crisis and explain how various f...
The international financial crisis manifests itself in Ireland not only as a crisis of the banking s...
A watershed year for the global economic system, the year 2008 also marked the demise of what had be...
Ireland’s acceptance of international financial aid to its stricken finance sector is widely seen in...
non-peer-reviewedIn this paper we outline the features of an emergent resistance in Ireland. We exa...
The Irish economy enjoyed a long period of sustained growth from roughly 1994 onward, with a corres...
The current international financial crisis, greatly amplified by the collapse of a domestic property...
Ireland’s banking crisis was described by the IMF in early 2009 as matching ‘episodes of the most se...