A rocky road : the Irish economy since the 1920s

Abstract

Chronology: from partition to the emergency post-war recovery, 1945-50 gloom and doom (Mark 1), 1950-58 Ireland's Golden Age, 1960-79 more gloom and doom, 1979-85 the only way up, 1985-2000 Ireland in a comparative setting. Irish economic policy since the 1930s: investment public expenditure protection and free trade money and prices fiscal policy economic planning north and south. Poverty, employment and institutions: poverty and inequality labour force and employment institutional constraints and rent-seeking. Industry and industrial policy: import substitution the shift to the multinationals some second thoughts some winners and losers Northern Ireland the semi-state sector. Agriculture: before the common market farming in a common market the farm lobby. Services tourism banking and finance transport, communications and peripherality electricity and telecommunications. Demographic trends: marriage and fertility mortality Northern Ireland emigration fertility and human capital.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 198 citations exist upstream.