An Economic History of Agriculture in Northern Ireland, 1850-1900
Title | An Economic History of Agriculture in Northern Ireland, 1850-1900 PDF eBook |
Author | David Lyons Armstrong |
Publisher | Plunkett Foundation for Co-Operative Studies |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Economic History of Agriculture in N. Ireland
Title | Economic History of Agriculture in N. Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | David Lyons Armstrong |
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Pages | |
Release | 1952 |
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The Economic Development of Ireland in the Twentieth Century
Title | The Economic Development of Ireland in the Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Giblin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1134973039 |
This book examines Irish economic development in the twentieth century compared with other European countries. It traces the growth of the Republic's economy from its separation from Britain in the early 1920s through to the present. It assesses the factors which encouraged and inhibited economic development, and concludes with an appraisal of the country's present state and future prospects.
Why Ireland Starved
Title | Why Ireland Starved PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Mokyr |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1136599665 |
Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all. While the Northern Atlantic Economy prospered, the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 killed a million and a half people and caused hundreds of thousands to flee the country. Why the Irish economy failed to grow, and ‘why Ireland starved’ remains an unresolved riddle of economic history. Professor Mokyr maintains that the ‘Hungry Forties’ were caused by the overall underdevelopment of the economy during the decades which preceded the famine. In Why Ireland Starved he tests various hypotheses that have been put forward to account for this backwardness. He dismisses widespread arguments that Irish poverty can be explained in terms of over-population, an evil land system or malicious exploitation by the British. Instead, he argues that the causes have to be sought in the low productivity of labor and the insufficient formation of physical capital – results of the peculiar political and social structure of Ireland, continuous conflicts between landlords and tenants, and the rigidity of Irish economic institutions. Mokyr’s methodology is rigorous and quantitative, in the tradition of the New Economic History. It sets out to test hypotheses about the causal connections between economic and non-economic phenomena. Irish history is often heavily coloured by political convictions: of Dutch-Jewish origin, trained in Israel and working in the United States. Mokyr brings to this controversial field not only wide research experience but also impartiality and scientific objectivity. The book is primarily aimed at numerate economic historians, historical demographers, economists specializing in agricultural economics and economic development and specialists in Irish and British nineteenth-century history. The text is, nonetheless, free of technical jargon, with the more complex material relegated to appendixes. Mokyr’s line of reasoning is transparent and has been easily accessible and useful to readers without graduate training in economic theory and econometrics since ists first publication in 1983.
An Economic History of Ireland
Title | An Economic History of Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | David Alfred Chart |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Agriculture |
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An Economic History of Ireland Since 1660
Title | An Economic History of Ireland Since 1660 PDF eBook |
Author | Louis M. Cullen |
Publisher | B. T. Batsford Limited |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Ireland Before and After the Famine
Title | Ireland Before and After the Famine PDF eBook |
Author | Cormac Ó Gráda |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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This edition of Cormac O'Grada's study expands upon his central arguments about the agricultural and demographic developments surrounding the Great Irish Famine. It provides new statistical information, new appendices and integrated responses to the new research and writing on the subject that has appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1987.