CELTIC TIGER IN COLLAPSE: EXPLAINING THE WEAKNESSES OF THE IRISH MODEL KIRBY P. Księgarnia

In the late 1990s Ireland emerged as a 'Celtic Tiger' and was widely seen as offering a model of successful development for latecomers in the context of today's globalized world which attracted extensive international attention. The deep and sudden collapse of the Irish economy in the context of the global crisis of 2008 has raised questions about the weaknesses of the model.

This book explains how the Irish collapse resulted from key features of the model and analyses how these weaknesses reflect deeply entrenched institutional, cultural and political features of Irish society. It concludes by mapping the contours of responses to what is the deepest crisis faced by the Irish state since independence.

Amid the burgeoning literature on the Celtic Tiger, the book is unique in taking a political economy approach that identifies how the interaction of state, market and society helped constitute the Irish model. This substantially revised second edition of The Celtic Tiger in Distress: Growth and Inequality in Ireland remains the definitive work on the Celtic Ti

PEADAR KIRBY is Professor of International Politics and Public Policy, and director of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society, at the University of Limerick. He is author of The Celtic Tiger in Distress, Introduction to Latin America and Vulnerability and Violence.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Preface
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction: The Collapse of the Irish Model

PART I: THE CELTIC TIGER AND ITS AFTERMATH
Before the Tiger
Assessing the Boom
Best of Times?

PART II: DIFFERENT READING OF THE CELTIC TIGER
Dominant Reading
Critical Explanations
Elaborating Theory

PART III: IRELAND'S POLITICAL ECONOMY
State: Developmental or Competition?
Market: Neo-liberalism Irish-style
Society: Vulnerability and Control

PART IV: HAS THE IRISH MODEL A FUTURE?
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Appendix
Bibliography
Index

256 pagges

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