Irish Economic Development: High-performing EU State or Serial Under-achiever?

By Eoin O'Leary

This book offers a discerning narrative on the spectacular rise and fall of the so-called Celtic Tiger economy. It depicts Ireland as a micro-state with a unique reliance on foreign-assisted businesses, driven in part by a favourable taxation regime. It shows that rent-seeking by trades unions and property developers contributed to the fall since 2002. Although the country's highly centralized government's pre-disposition to lobbying has yielded international successes, it has also resulted in recurring self-inflicted crises since 1970.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415645123
• ISBN13: 9780415645126
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"