Austerity Ireland The Failure Of Irish Capitalism
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780745334011
Description: Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the country's ability to suffer economic pain will attract investors and generate a recovery. In this book Kieran Allen challenges this official narrative and argues that the Irish state's response to the crash has primarily been designed to protect economic privilege.