Overview
- Offers a comprehensive and integrated overview of the 'Celtic Tiger' period in Irish economic history
- Discusses the causes and outcomes of Ireland's rapid economic growth starting in the late 1980s
- Provides a detailed analysis of net foreign earnings during this period, with a focus on different export categories
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred.
The book situates Ireland as a relative latecomer to economic development, with specific challenges and advantages inherent to this position. It discusses the risks involved in remaining reliant on foreign companies, exploring how in Ireland’s case the rapidly growing economy required active, interventionist and imaginative policy measures rather than relying primarily on free market forces. The book also offers an estimation of the value of the net foreign earnings associated with different categories of exports after deducting the profit outflows and payments for imported inputs, revealing a number of findings about the importance of Irish indigenous companies and services during this time. It shows that Irish indigenous companies, assisted by industrial policy measures, played a significant part, as did the services sector,alongside the more visible and widely recognised role of foreign multinationals in high-tech manufacturing. Offering fresh insights and analyses more than 15 years after the long boom ended at the precipice of the global financial crisis, this book will be a useful resource for economic historians, scholars of political economy and macroeconomic policy, as well as those interested in modern Irish history more broadly.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Eoin O’Malley was a researcher at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, for twenty-five years. He has been a consultant to the European Commission and to various public sector bodies in Ireland including the National Economic and Social Council. He was also a Research Associate at the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ireland's Long Economic Boom
Book Subtitle: The Celtic Tiger Economy, 1986–2007
Authors: Eoin O'Malley
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53070-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53069-2Published: 31 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53072-2Due: 01 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53070-8Published: 30 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 264
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Economic Growth, Economic Policy