Ebook: Sins of the Father: Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Housing; 2 Agriculture; 3 Industry; 4 Finance; 5 From Bank Guarantee to Bailout; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Copyright.;The questions surrounding how the Irish economy was brought to the brink - who was to blame, and who should pay for these mistakes - have been rightly debated at length. But beyond this very legitimate exercise, there are deeper questions that need to be answered. These questions relate to why we made the decisions we did, not just in the last ten years, but over the last eighty. How did certain industries become more prominent at the expense of others, banking as opposed to fisheries, international markets as opposed to indigenous industry and job creation? Are our problems structural in natu.