Ship of fools : how stupidity and corruption sank the Celtic Tiger / by Fintan O'Toole.
By: O'Toole, Fintan
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BookPublisher: London : Faber, 2010Edition: Updated [ed.].Description: p. cm.ISBN: 9780571260751; 0571260756.Subject(s): Financial crises -- Ireland | Political corruption -- Ireland | Economics | Economics | European history | Social & ethical issues | Economic history | Ireland -- Economic conditions -- 1949- | Ireland -- Economic policy | Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1949-DDC classification: 330.94170824 OTO | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library Ground Floor Main | 330.94170824 OTO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 38888000750707 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude seemed to have created boundless prosperity. And then, as in Iceland, the glittering palaces vanished in the heat of the global financial meltdown. For years, those with economic power had been investing in a gigantic property bubble.
In Ship of Fools Fintan O'Toole tells the story of this dizzying rise and sickening fall. Ireland may have had a tiger economy, but those in charge of it had not lost their taste for sweetheart deals, back-handers and bribery. This is the essential analysis of Ireland's economic suicide.
Previous ed.: 2009.
Includes index.
Prologue. Three ships -- 1. El tigre celta -- 2. A patriot for me -- 3. Ethitical banking -- 4. Our own gentry -- 5. The new feudalism -- 6. Kings of the wild frontier -- 7. Off-line Ireland -- 8. Unknown knowns -- 9. Fair pay to you, Willie -- Epilogue. The second republic.
Between 1995 and 2007, the Republic of Ireland was a worldwide model of successful adaptation to economic globalization - then the bubble burst. Fintan O'Toole presents a passionate account of how things went wrong, focusing on corrupt planning and poorly regulated banks.