Description
In this original critique by one of Ireland's leading writers on economics, Denis O'Hearn sets Ireland's economic success in an international context and contrasts and compares its growth with the other 'tiger' economies. O'Hearn addresses some difficult but crucial questions, such as whether Ireland's apparent success is self-sustaining and what lessons can be learned from the downturn of the comparable East Asian economies.
The study focuses on the importance for Ireland's rising economy of three US-led industrial sectors: computers, electrical engineering and pharmaceuticals. O'Hearn assesses who benefits and who loses from such foreign capital-led growth - in the context of working conditions, poverty, consumption and inequality - and argues that the country's apparently significant economic achievements are dominated by growth in corporate profits and professional incomes, but that there is no evidence, as yet, of 'trickle-down' to other sectors.
About the Author
Denis O'Hearn is Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University, New York. He has studied prison communities and conflict in the H-Blocks in Ireland, Turkish F-type prisons, and US supermax prisons. His latest book, is Living at the Edges of Capitalism (University of California Press, 2016).
Reviews
'Politicians ought to take a few pages of Inside the Celtic Tiger before breakfast every day' -- Books Ireland
'A stimulating and provocative account of the dilemmas of development in an era of globalisation' -- Irish Journal of Sociology
'O'Hearn's debunking of the myths associated with the Celtic tiger is a timely and convincing contribution' -- Sociology
Book Information
ISBN 9780745312835
Author Denis O'Hearn
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Pluto Press
Publisher Pluto Press
Weight(grams) 281g