International Political Economy Series: Growth with Inequality in Ireland

Kirby, P.

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 through a critical examination of globalization, identifying possibilities for development and social action.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-12-12

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333964361

DOI: 10.1057/9780230595736

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 253