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Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tige
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tige
- ISBN
- 9781586488826
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- eBook
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Ship of Fools : How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
- Publisher
- Public Affairs
- Genre
- Political Science, Business & Economics
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Topic
- Political Economy, Finance / General
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Public Affairs
ISBN-10
1586488821
ISBN-13
9781586488826
eBay Product ID (ePID)
121562815
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ship of Fools : How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Political Economy, Finance / General
Genre
Political Science, Business & Economics
Format
eBook
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
eBook Format
Open Ebook,EPUB
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Brian Groom, Financial Times "O'Toole ... has produced a coruscating polemic against the cronyism and corruption that in his view helped to fuel the boom.... [H]is highly readable book is a salutary reminder that cronyism, light regulation and loose ethics can be a deadly combination." Cleveland Plain Dealer "An interesting and readable post-mortem.... Ship of Fools is not just for those drawn to Irish politics or economics. Americans, in particular, will relate to Ireland's battle to restore its economy and renew faith in its leaders.", Brian Groom, Financial Times "O'Toole ... has produced a coruscating polemic against the cronyism and corruption that in his view helped to fuel the boom.... [H]is highly readable book is a salutary reminder that cronyism, light regulation and loose ethics can be a deadly combination."
Dewey Decimal
330.94170824
Synopsis
The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The -Irish Economic miracle- was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the simple fact that until the 1980s Ireland was by the standards of the developed world so economically backward that the only way was up. And as it began to catch up to European and American averages, the Irish economy could boast some seemingly remarkable statistics. These lured in investors, the Irish deregulated and all but abandoned financial oversight, and a great Irish financial ceilidh began. It would last for a decade. When the global financial crash of 2008 arrived it struck Ireland harder than anywhere - even Iceland looked like a model of rectitude compared to the fiasco that stretched from Cork to Dublin. There was an avalanche of statistics as toxic as the property-based assets that lay beneath many of them And under all this rubble lay the corpse of the Celtic Tiger. How Ireland managed to achieve such a spectacular implosion is a stunning story of corruption, carelessness and venality, told with passion and fury by one of Ireland's most respected journalists and commentators., The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The "Irish Economic miracle" was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the simple fact that until the 1980s Ireland was by the standards of the developed world so economically backward that the only way was up. And as it began to catch up to European and American averages, the Irish economy could boast some seemingly remarkable statistics. These lured in investors, the Irish deregulated and all but abandoned financial oversight, and a great Irish financial ceilidh began. It would last for a decade. When the global financial crash of 2008 arrived it struck Ireland harder than anywhere - even Iceland looked like a model of rectitude compared to the fiasco that stretched from Cork to Dublin. There was an avalanche of statistics as toxic as the property-based assets that lay beneath many of them And under all this rubble lay the corpse of the Celtic Tiger. How Ireland managed to achieve such a spectacular implosion is a stunning story of corruption, carelessness and venality, told with passion and fury by one of Ireland's most respected journalists and commentators.
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