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The Celtic Tiger in Distress
Peadar Kirby
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Description for The Celtic Tiger in Distress
Paperback. This text offers an interpretation which captures more fully the ways in which the Irish State has made itself subservient to market forces. The options now facing Irish society are mapped out through an examination of globalization, identifying possibilities for development and social action. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JPH; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy has been held up as a model of successful development in a globalized world, offering lessons for other late developing countries. It interrogates the principal theoretical approaches which have been used to analyze the Celtic Tiger, particularly neo-classical economics, and finds them inadequate to capture its ambiguities or address its developmental deficit. Elaborating an alternative approach, drawing particularly on the work of Karl Polanyi, the book offers an interpretation which captures more fully the ways in which the Irish State has made itself subservient to market forces. The options now facing Irish society are mapped out ... Read more
Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy has been held up as a model of successful development in a globalized world, offering lessons for other late developing countries. It interrogates the principal theoretical approaches which have been used to analyze the Celtic Tiger, particularly neo-classical economics, and finds them inadequate to capture its ambiguities or address its developmental deficit. Elaborating an alternative approach, drawing particularly on the work of Karl Polanyi, the book offers an interpretation which captures more fully the ways in which the Irish State has made itself subservient to market forces. The options now facing Irish society are mapped out ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
International Political Economy Series
Number of Pages
253
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333964361
SKU
V9780333964361
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About Peadar Kirby
PEADER KIRBY is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at Dublin City University, Ireland. A former journalist with The Irish Times and Noticias Aliadas (Lima, Peru), he has written a number of books on development, Ireland and Latin America.
Reviews for The Celtic Tiger in Distress
'Kirby's case study of Ireland shows how different countries with different positions in the world economy and different social and economic structures connect in different ways with the globalization process...This study advances our understanding of the complexity and pitfalls of the globalization phenomenon in general; and it provides a sound basis for rethinking Ireland's and the EU's future in the ... Read more