Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 41, No. 3, Autumn, 2010 by Subject "Ireland"

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    • Before the Celtic Tiger: change without modernisation in Ireland 1959-1989 

      Girvin, Brian (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 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 ...

    • Educational developmentalists divided? Patrick Cannon, Patrick Hillery and the economics of education in the early 1960s 

      Murray, Peter (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)
      The catalytic effect of the OECD-linked study that produced Investment in Education is a much celebrated episode of Ireland?s modernisation. A remarkably broad cross-departmental consensus supported the initiative. ...

    • Fabricating 'Economic development' 

      Brownlow, Graham (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)
      Much of the literature, regardless of academic discipline, presents the publication of Economic Development in 1958 as analogous to a ?big bang? event in the creation of modern Ireland. However, such a ?big bang? perspective ...

    • Hirschman and Irish industrial policy 

      Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)
      In this article we examine the origins of Whitaker?s export oriented industrial policy and the political management of its implementation. Whitaker appointed academic economic advisors, including Louden Ryan, to a Capital ...

    • Organising for growth: Irish state administration 1958-2008 

      Hardiman, Niamh; MacCarthaigh, Muiris (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)
      This paper analyses some key features of Irish public administration as it has developed since the foundation of the state, paying particular attention to the period from the late 1950s onward. During these decades, ...

    • Reappraising Irish developmentalism: Editorial 

      Fanning, Bryan; Walsh, Patrick Paul (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)
      On 12 March 2009 the Institute for British-Irish Studies in the School of Politics and International Relations hosted a conference to mark the contribution of Professor Tom Garvin to Social Science, University College ...