Inside the Celtic Tiger - Irish Economy and the Asian Model

Informationen zum Autor Denis O'Hearn is Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University, New York. He has studied prison communities and conflict in the H-Blocks in Ireland, Turkish F-type prisons, and US supermax prisons. His latest book, is Living at the Edges of Capitalism (University of California Press, 2016). Klappentext One of the poorest states in the European Union during the 1980s, the Republic of Ireland's economy has grown rapidly in the 1990s, despite an overwhelming dependence on foreign capital. Echoing the 'tiger' economies of East Asia, this has led many to dub Ireland the Celtic Tiger. In this original critique by one of Ireland's leading writers on economics, Denis O'Hearn sets Ireland's economic success in an international context and contrasts and compares its growth with the other 'tiger' economies. O'Hearn addresses some difficult but crucial questions, such as whether Ireland's apparent success is self-sustaining and what lessons can be learned from the downturn of the comparable East Asian economies. The study focuses on the importance for Ireland's rising economy of three US-led industrial sectors: computers, electrical engineering and pharmaceuticals. O'Hearn assesses who benefits and who loses from such foreign capital-led growth - in the context of working conditions, poverty, consumption and inequality - and argues that the country's apparently significant economic achievements are dominated by growth in corporate profits and professional incomes, but that there is no evidence, as yet, of 'trickle-down' to other sectors. Zusammenfassung Is Irish economic development sustainable in the moderately near future?

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Denis Hearn, O&apos, Denis O'Hearn, Denis O''hearn, O'Hearn Denis
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.1998
• EAN: 9780745312835
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-1283-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Contemporary Irish Studies; Contemporary Irish Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Makroökonomie, Irland, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Cultural Studies, Internationale Wirtschaft, Ostasien, Ferner Osten, Entwicklungsökonomie und Schwellenländer, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, macroeconomics, Ireland, International Economics, East Asia, Far East, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies