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This is an authoritative and topical assessment of Ireland's impressive economic growth record which has seen it dubbed 'the Celtic tiger'. Leading scholars from Ireland and beyond discuss Ireland's spectacular performance in its economic, social and political contexts.
List of contents
List of Tables Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; F.Barry The Real Convergence of the Irish Economy and the Sectoral Distribution of Employment Growth; F.Barry, A.Hannan & E.A.Strobl Recent Irish Growth in Historical and Theoretical Perspective; F.Barry Indigenous and Foreign Industry: Characteristics and Performance; F.Barry, J.Bradley & E.O'Malley Fiscal Adjustment and Disinflation in Ireland: Setting the Macro Basis of Economic Recovery and Expansion; P.Honohan The European Dimension: The Single Market and the Structural Funds; F.Barry, J. Bradley & A.Hannan Education and Growth in the Irish Economy; J.Durkan, D.FitzGerald & C.Harmon Wage Formation and the Labour Market; J.FitzGerald Income Inequality in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s; T.Callan & B.Nolan The Persistence of High Unemployment in a Small Open Labour Market: The Irish Case; B.Walsh Index
About the author
FRANK BARRY is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at University College Dublin. He holds an MA from the University of Essex and a Ph.D. from Queen's University in Canada. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Stockholm, California and New South Wales, and served for a time as Trade and Industry advisor to the Indonesian Ministry of Finance with the Harvard Institute for International Development. His publications are in the fields of macroeconomics and international trade.
