The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US and IrelandManchester University Press, 2001 - 241 pages Examines how the economic power of Britain and the US limits the opportunities for small states to develop. Follows the history of the Atlantic economy since the sixteenth century and shows how Ireland's repeated attempts to industrialise were transformed by British and American power. Explains the problems of economic growth and industrialisation from the perspectives of both the developed and developing countries. Addresses the most important question in developmental politics - how can a developing country emerge from a historical cycle of underdevelopment?. Ends with a radical critique of the Irish 'Celtic Tiger' phenomenon of the 1990s and argues that Ireland's recent economic success is not a decisive break with past patterns because economic growth is concentrated in a limited area. |
Contents
7 | 26 |
wool to linen | 53 |
initial industrial transformations | 75 |
foreign investment | 140 |
from green donkey to Celtic tiger | 167 |
Comparing cycles of peripheral economic change | 196 |
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activities argued Atlantic economy became Belfast Britain British capital capitalist cattle bills Celtic tiger cent centre cloth colonial commodity chains companies competitive concentrated corporate cotton industry countries created cycles Department of Finance Department of Industry dependent domestic dominated Dublin Dutch economic change economic growth employment England English Europe European expansion external factory firms flax foreign investment Forfás free trade global grew hegemonic important incomes incorporation increased indigenous industrialisation Industry and Commerce innovation Irish cotton Irish economic Irish industry Irish linen Irish woollen Janvry limited linen production linkages Marshall Plan ment merchants Navigation Acts numbers O'Hearn organisation output peripheral peripheralisation policies political protection provisions putting-out system raw materials regime regions restricted Sean MacBride sectors semi-peripheral settlers social social partnership southern Irish spinners spinning strategy structure supply T. K. Whitaker taoiseach textiles TNCs wages weavers weaving wool workers world-system yarn