The Builders - How a Small Group of Property Developers Fuelled Building Boom

Informationen zum Autor Frank McDonald is Environment Editor of the Irish Times and author of books including The Destruction of Dublin and The Construction of Dublin . Kathy Sheridan is an Irish Times staff journalist. Klappentext The first book to lift the lid on the shadowy world of Ireland's phenomenally successful! and influential! property developers. Zusammenfassung In the past fifteen years, Ireland has gone from being one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the richest in the world. Of all the factors in this extraordinary transformation, none has been more prominent than the astonishing boom in construction. In The Builders , Frank McDonald and Kathy Sheridan tell the stories of these men and of the changes - physical and psychological - they have brought about. The story of Ireland's property developers has been the great untold story of the boom - until now. 'Essential reading' Sunday Business Post

Product details

• Authors: Frank McDonald, Frank Sheridan Mcdonald, Kathy Sheridan, Sheridan Kathy
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.05.2009
• EAN: 9780141037806
• ISBN: 978-0-14-103780-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Construction, Ireland, economic growth, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Construction and building industry