MACMILLAN Understanding Ireland's Economic Growth

Product Description This is an authoritative and topical assessment of Ireland's impressive economic growth record which has seen it dubbed 'the Celtic tiger'. Leading scholars from Ireland and beyond discuss Ireland's spectacular performance in its economic, social and political contexts. About the Author FRANK BARRY is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at University College Dublin. He holds an MA from the University of Essex and a Ph.D. from Queen's University in Canada. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Stockholm, California and New South Wales, and served for a time as Trade and Industry advisor to the Indonesian Ministry of Finance with the Harvard Institute for International Development. His publications are in the fields of macroeconomics and international trade.