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Ship Of Fools O'toole Fintan
Fintan O'Toole
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paperback. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
Between 1995 and 2007, the Republic of Ireland was the worldwide model of successful adaptation to economic globalisation. The success story was phenomenal: a doubling of the workforce; a massive growth in exports; a GDP that was substantially above the EU average. Ireland became the world's largest exporter of software and manufactured the world's supply of Viagra. The factors that made it possible for Ireland to become prosperous - progressive social change, solidarity, major State investment in education, and the critical role of the EU - were largely ignored as too sharply at odds with the dominant free market ideology. ... Read more
Between 1995 and 2007, the Republic of Ireland was the worldwide model of successful adaptation to economic globalisation. The success story was phenomenal: a doubling of the workforce; a massive growth in exports; a GDP that was substantially above the EU average. Ireland became the world's largest exporter of software and manufactured the world's supply of Viagra. The factors that made it possible for Ireland to become prosperous - progressive social change, solidarity, major State investment in education, and the critical role of the EU - were largely ignored as too sharply at odds with the dominant free market ideology. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber and Faber London
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571252688
SKU
KMK0025632
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Fintan O'Toole
Fintan O'Toole is a historian, critic and newspaper columnist, of whom Roddy Doyle has said 'he is not just an important writer, he is a vital one'. Andrew O'Hagan once described him as 'Ireland's most interesting journalist', and Roy Foster has said: 'I read everything that Fintan O'Toole writes'.
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