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Languages : en
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Economic Aspects of Agriculture in Ireland
Author: Why Ireland Starved
Author: Joel MokyrPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136599665
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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.
The Economic Development of Ireland in the Twentieth Century
Author: Thomas GiblinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134973039
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
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.
On the Economic Causes of the Present State of Agriculture in Ireland ... A Paper Read Before the Dublin Statistical Society
Author: William Neilson HancockPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 8
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The Geography of Agriculture in Developed Market Economies
Author: I.R. BowlerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317885082
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
First published in 1993. The broad objective of this book is to describe and explain the contemporary geography of agriculture in developed market economies. The objective has been approached by a team of agricultural geographers, each writer contributing an analysis of a particular topic.
A Review of the Common Agricultural Policy and the Implications of Modified Systems for Ireland
Author: Robert O'ConnorPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Research paper on the EC Common Agricultural Policy and economic implications of proposed reforms for Ireland - outlines reasons for state intervention in the agricultural sector; discusses evolution of CAP, financing, price supports, common market and structural policy; reviews agricultural development trends (1970-1981), benefits of CAP (incl. Trade and national budgetary effects), etc.; provides an evaluation of proposed two-tier financing, prudent agricultural price, co- responsibility levies and quota system. Diagrams, graph and references.
Ireland Before and After the Famine
Author: Cormac Ó GrádaPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719040351
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
The Land Question and the Irish Economy, 1870-1903
Author: Barbara Lewis SolowPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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The Impact of Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
Author: National Economic and Social CouncilPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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A Country Life Institute
Author: Sir Horace Curzon PlunkettPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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