A history of Irish economic thought / edited by Thomas Boylan, Renee Prendergast and John D. Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boylan, Thomas A.

Prendergast, Renee, 1952-

Turner, John D., 1971-

Series:

Routledge history of economic thought series ; 11.

Routledge history of economic thought ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Ireland.

Economics.

Ireland--Economic conditions.

Ireland.

Ireland--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For a country that can boast a distinguished tradition of political economy from Sir William Petty through Swift, Berkeley, Hutcheson, Burke and Cantillon through to that of Longfield, Cairnes, Bastable, Edgeworth, Geary and Gorman, it is surprising that no systematic study of Irish political economy has been undertaken. In this book the contributors redress this glaring omission in the history of political economy, for the first time providing an overview of developments in Irish political economy from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Logistically this is achieved through t

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Ireland and the birth of political economy; 1 The Irish connection and the birth of political economy: Petty and Cantillon; 2 Swift and Berkeley on economic development; 3 The contested origins of 'economic man': Hutcheson, Berkeley and Swift's engagement with Bernard Mandeville; 4 Economic thought in Arthur O'Connor's The State of Ireland: Reducing politics to science; Part II: The classical era: The rise and fall of laissez- faire

5 Value and distribution theory at Trinity College Dublin, 1831-18446 The classical economist perspective on landed- property reform; 7 John Elliot Cairnes: Land, laissez- faire and Ireland; 8 Charles Francis Bastable on trade and public finance; 9 The peculiarities of place: The Irish historical economists; 10 Irish contributions to nineteenth-century monetary and banking debates; Part III: Into the twentieth century - Irish contributions to economic theory; 11 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth on the regularity of law and the impartiality of chance; 12 Roy Geary; 13 W.M. Gorman

Part IV: Policy and economic development - shifting economic paradigms14 Political economy - from nation building to stagnation; 15 Learning lessons from Ireland's economic development; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-93348-4

1-136-93349-2

1-282-73268-4

1-78034-679-4

9786612732683

0-203-84632-X

9780203846322

OCLC:

659500227