The Celtic Tiger in Distress: Growth with Inequality in Ireland

by Peadar Kirby

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333964365
• ISBN13: 9780333964361
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"