Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger

by Fintan O'Toole

Book Overview

The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The "Irish Economic miracle" was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the simple fact that until the 1980s Ireland was by the standards of the developed world so economically backward that the only way was up. And as it began to catch up to European and American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586488813
• ISBN13: 9781586488819
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.5"