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The Celtic Tiger in Distress

Growth with Inequality in Ireland

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Peadar Kirby

    1. School of Communications, Dublin City University, Ireland

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Peadar Kirby
      Pages 1-7

  3. The Celtic Tiger

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Pre-History

      • Peadar Kirby
      Pages 11-28

    3. Nature and Causes

      • Peadar Kirby
      Pages 29-46

    4. Impact

      • Peadar Kirby
      Pages 47-68

  4. Understanding the Celtic Tiger

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Mainstream Explanations

      • Peadar Kirby
      Pages 71-88

    3. Critical Explanations

      • Peadar Kirby
      Pages 89-107

    4. Elaborating Theory

      • Peadar Kirby
      Pages 108-125

  5. Towards an International Political Economy of Ireland’s Development in the 1990s

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. State

      • Peadar Kirby
      Pages 129-144

    3. Market

      • Peadar Kirby
      Pages 145-163

    4. Society

      • Peadar Kirby
      Pages 164-181

  6. Futures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Options

      • Peadar Kirby
      Pages 185-204

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 205-253
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About this book

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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'Kirby's case study of Ireland shows how different countries with different positions in the world economy and different social and economic structures connect in different ways with the globalization process...This study advances our understanding of the complexity and pitfalls of the globalization phenomenon in general; and it provides a sound basis for rethinking Ireland's and the EU's future in the light of the Irish vote against the Nice treaty.'- Professor Robert W. Cox, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Communications, Dublin City University, Ireland

    Peadar Kirby

About the author

PEADER KIRBY is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at Dublin City University, Ireland. A former journalist with The Irish Times and Noticias Aliadas (Lima, Peru), he has written a number of books on development, Ireland and Latin America.

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