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Author | : Joel Mokyr |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136599665 |
Download Why Ireland Starved Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all. While the Northern Atlantic Economy prospered, the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 killed a million and a half people and caused hundreds of thousands to flee the country. Why the Irish economy failed to grow, and ‘why Ireland starved’ remains an unresolved riddle of economic history. Professor Mokyr maintains that the ‘Hungry Forties’ were caused by the overall underdevelopment of the economy during the decades which preceded the famine. In Why Ireland Starved he tests various hypotheses that have been put forward to account for this backwardness. He dismisses widespread arguments that Irish poverty can be explained in terms of over-population, an evil land system or malicious exploitation by the British. Instead, he argues that the causes have to be sought in the low productivity of labor and the insufficient formation of physical capital – results of the peculiar political and social structure of Ireland, continuous conflicts between landlords and tenants, and the rigidity of Irish economic institutions. Mokyr’s methodology is rigorous and quantitative, in the tradition of the New Economic History. It sets out to test hypotheses about the causal connections between economic and non-economic phenomena. Irish history is often heavily coloured by political convictions: of Dutch-Jewish origin, trained in Israel and working in the United States. Mokyr brings to this controversial field not only wide research experience but also impartiality and scientific objectivity. The book is primarily aimed at numerate economic historians, historical demographers, economists specializing in agricultural economics and economic development and specialists in Irish and British nineteenth-century history. The text is, nonetheless, free of technical jargon, with the more complex material relegated to appendixes. Mokyr’s line of reasoning is transparent and has been easily accessible and useful to readers without graduate training in economic theory and econometrics since ists first publication in 1983.
Author | : Tom Garvin |
Publisher | : Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2004-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0717163598 |
Download Preventing the Future Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Between the years of the mid-thirties through to 1960, independent Ireland suffered from economic stagnation, and also went through a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. While external circumstances account for much of the stagnation – especially the depression of the thirties and the Second World War – Preventing the Future argues that the situation was aggravated by internal circumstances. The key domestic factor was the failure to extend higher and technical education and training to larger sections of the population. This derived from political stalemates in a small country which derived in turn from the power of the Catholic Church, the strength of the small-farm community, the ideological wish to preserve an older society and, later, gerontocratic tendencies in the political elites and in society as a whole. While economic growth did accelerate after 1960, the political stand-off over mass education resulted in large numbers of young people being denied preparation for life in the modern world and, arguably, denied Ireland a sufficient supply of trained labour and educated citizens. Ireland's Celtic Tiger of the nineties was in great part driven by a new and highly educated and technically trained workforce. The political stalemates of the forties and fifties delayed the initial, incomplete take-off until the sixties and resulted in the Tiger arriving nearly a generation later than it might have.
Author | : Paddy Hillyard |
Publisher | : Combat Poverty Agency |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Poverty |
ISBN | : 1904541224 |
Download Poverty and Conflict in Ireland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Dennis Graham Pringle |
Publisher | : Oak Tree Press (Ireland) |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Poor People, Poor Places Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Poverty is not uniformly distributed throughout Ireland. Some areas clearly experience much higher levels of poverty than others, whether urban public housing estates or peripheral rural areas. However, the spatial dimensions of poverty are, at best, only partially understood. This book brings together disparate sources of information on the geography of poverty and initiates a debate from which can emerge more effective policy responses. It should be of interest to students of geography and the social sciences, and should appeal to policy-makers and practitioners concerned with spatial responses to poverty, such as those involved in urban, rural and community interventions.
Author | : John Francis Scanlan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Industries |
ISBN | : |
Download "Why Ireland is Poor." Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sir Charles Gavan Duffy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Why is Ireland poor and discontented? A lecture, etc Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Brian Nolan |
Publisher | : Combat Poverty Agency |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 1860761836 |
Download Child Poverty in Ireland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Child poverty is not just a transitory phase associated with childhood, but often has a legacy that persists in later life, regardless of children's talents or efforts. Published in association with the Combat Poverty Agency, this study draws on data from the 1994 and 1997 Living in Ireland Surveys, and compares this with earlier results.
Author | : John O'Connor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Workhouses of Ireland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The workhouse was the most dreaded and feared institution in Ireland. The workhouse system of poor relief was imposed on the Irish people in spite of the opposition of Catholic and Protestant, landlord and labourer. Everyone predicted it would not work- and it did not work. During the famine years countless thousands died within the workhouse walls. Even more, denied admission, died outside. This book traces the workhouse system from its introduction to its phasing out. It makes an unique contribution to our understanding of the social history of Ireland. -- Publisher description.
Author | : Colin Menton |
Publisher | : Institute of Public Administration |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 1904541615 |
Download An Investigation of the Measurement of Poverty in Ireland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Brian Nolan |
Publisher | : Combat Poverty Agency |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 1860760856 |
Download Where are Poor Households? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on evidence from Irish national household surveys in 1987 and 1994 and Census of Population data from 1986 and 1991, this study attempts to answer these questions. It examines the underlying assumptions regarding the way in which household and spatial factors combine to create patterns of cumulative disadvantage. It explores what types of areas have particularly high rates of poverty, the extent to which people living in poverty or who are disadvantaged are concentrated in particular areas and whether such patterns have changed over time. The study makes an important contribution to the understanding of the spatial dimensions of poverty and disadvantage. It is particularly relevant in the context of the National Anti-Poverty Strategy, the national emphasis on area-based strategies to tackle unemployment and disadvantage and the reform of local government.