Ireland under austerity (eBook, ePUB)

Neoliberal crisis, neoliberal solutions
Redaktion: Coulter, Colin; Nagle, Angela

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Once held up as a 'poster child' for untrammeled capitalist globalisation, the Irish Republic has more recently come to represent a cautionary tale for those tempted to tread the same neoliberal path. The crash in the world economy had especially grave repercussions for Ireland, and a series of austerity measures has seen the country endure what some consider the most substantial 'adjustment' ever experienced in a developed society during peacetime. In this collection of essays, a range of academics, economists and political commentators delineate the reactionary course that Ireland has followed since the ignominious demise of the Celtic Tiger. They argue that the forces of neoliberalism have employed the economic crisis they caused to advance policies that are in their own narrow interests, and that the host of regressive measures imposed since the onset of global recession has fundamentally restructured Irish society. The book provides a critical account of a society that has more often than most mapped out the pernicious cycle of boom and bust that remains an essential hallmark of contemporary capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784996505
• Artikelnr.: 44054516

Autorenporträt

Colin Coulter is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Maynooth University Angela Nagle received her PhD from Dublin City University, and is a contributor to the Dublin Review of Books, the Atlantic and the Irish Times

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - Colin Coulter Section A: The political economy of crisis
in Ireland 2. False economy: the financialisation of Ireland and the roots
of austerity - Conor McCabe 3. Interpretations of the Irish economic crash
- Kieran Allen 4. The perfect storm: crisis, capitalism and democracy -
Sinead Kennedy 5. Ireland and the new economy - Angela Nagle Section B:
Casualties of the crisis in Ireland 6. Ireland's disappeared: suicide,
violence and austerity - Michael Cronin 7. The impact of the crisis on
Irish women - Alison Spillane 8. Defiance and hope: austerity and the
community sector in the Republic of Ireland - John Bissett 9. All aboard
the Migration Nation - Gavan Titley Section C: Lessons from the crisis for
the Irish Left 10. Lessons from the era of social partnership for the Irish
labour movement - Francisco Arqueros 11. Ireland, the Left and the European
Union - Daniel Finn 12. Business is too important to be left to Irish
business - Michael Taft Index