Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Title
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Bailiwicks, locality, and religion - 3 elements in an irish dail constituency election
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)This article is essentially a case study of voting patterns in an Irish Dail Constituency. But in this analysis we also deal with a larger question: how a stable party system exists in a constituency characterized by ... -
Before the Celtic Tiger: change without modernisation in Ireland 1959-1989
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)This paper engages with and expands on a number of themes examined in Tom Garvin?s Preventing the Future. It asks if it is accurate to describe independent Ireland as poor before 1950, arguing that Ireland became poor in ... -
Beginnings of state care for mentally ill in ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)The purpose in this paper is to examine the background and development of state care for the mentally ill in Ireland. Today, with a rapidly growing awareness of the needs of people with psychiatric problems, many agencies, ... -
Benchmarking company profitability and growth: some measurement issues for small firms in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)International comparisons of productivity, purchasing power and inflation can depend crucially on differences in national statistical procedures. This paper indicates that even in more localised comparisons of small firm ... -
Benchmarking, social partnership and higher remuneration: wage settling institutions and the public-private sector wage gap in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)This paper uses data from the 2003 and 2006 National Employment Surveys to analyse the public-private sector wage gap in Ireland. In particular, we investigate the impact of awards implemented under a number of wage setting ... -
Between morality and rationality: an analysis of interpersonal economics in rural Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)Social scientists interested in peasant societies have tried to make sense of their economies in terms of the "political" and "moral" economy paradigms. I t is the aim of this paper to assess critically the applicability ... -
Beyond the "Information Society": selected atoms and bits of a national strategy in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)This paper seeks to explore a number of key issues related to the direction and components of a coherent information sector strategy and more targeted national innovation networks in the Irish context, with a particular ... -
Bi-confessionalism in a confessional party system - the Northern Ireland alliance party
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)In a comparative context a bi-polar conflict is rare, especially when it takes the form of a conflict between two intractably opposed and self-sufficient communities ranged around a single, all-pervasive, cleavage. As ... -
Binomial option pricing and the conditions for early exercise: An example using foreign exchange options
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)In this paper arc derived simple and general conditions under which the value of an American option will exceed that of its European counterpart. These conditions are developed using the binomial option pricing framework. ... -
Birth under-registration in the republic-of-ireland during the 20th-century
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1982)Precis: The efficiency of birth registration in Ireland is investigated in this article by comparing the number of registered births with Census age-distributions in the period 1916-1971. It is argued that there was a ... -
Bishops and bailiwicks - obstacles to women's political-participation in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1987)Women are a small minority of political office-holders in Ireland as elsewhere. The authors first provide details of women's representation in different political arenas, before proceeding to identify the principal ... -
Blowing the Bubble: The Global Funding of the Irish Credit Boom
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2015)European global banks played a significant role in the international transmission of liquidity during the period prior to the global financial crisis. This paper examines how European global banks channelled finance, raised ... -
Book review: A sociology of Ireland / by Hilary Tovey and Perry Share. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2000.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)According to its authors, this book has two aims. The first is to offer an interpretation of the development of Irish society. The second is to provide an introduction to the discipline of sociology. Underpinning both of ... -
Book review: Interrogating Irish policies / by William Kingston. Dublin: Dublin University Press, 2007.
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Book review: The politics of high-tech growth: developmental network states in the global economy / by Sean O Riain. Cambridge University Press. 2004.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)?Sticky places in slippery space? is one of the best-known phrases from the literature on economic geography. The ?slippery space? is the globalised world of highly mobile capital, labour and technology. The ?sticky places? ... -
Book review: An introduction to Irish planning law / by Berna Grist. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1999.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)This slim volume (93 pages) is a very lucidly written overview of the planning system in Ireland, directed at the non-specialist. It is of particular value for those who wish to understand the evolution of the planning ... -
Book review: Cottage to creche: family change in Ireland / by Finola Kennedy. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2001.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)Officially, huge importance was attached to the family in twentieth century Ireland, the most obvious manifestation of this is in the Constitution of 1937 where it is afforded the status of a moral institution with inalienable ... -
Book review: Garret Fitzgerald: all in a life: an autobiography / by Michael Gallagher. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1991.
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Book review: Preventing the future: why was Ireland so poor for so long? / by Tom Garvin. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2004.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)In the last year of peace before the First World War, Ireland had (though this book does not make any such comparison) reached a level of per capita income roughly comparable with that of Swaziland today, while the remainder ... -
Book review: Selling out? ? privatisation in Ireland / by Paul Sweeney. Dublin: TASC/New Island, 2004.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)Over the last fourteen years the Irish government has withdrawn entirely from direct public provision in sectors such as banking, food, insurance and telecommunications. The wave of privatisation and rationalisation that ...