high-performing EU state or serial under-achiever? /
Eoin O'Leary.
xxi, 209 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm.
Routledge studies in the modern world economy,
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1359-7965 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
Setting the scene : theory and method -- Overview of Ireland's economic development record -- Evaluating standard explanations for the Celtic tiger -- Industrialization by invitation -- Ireland's five internationally competitive sectors -- Innovation by invitation -- Ireland as a micro-state -- The destructive role of special interest groups -- The irish policymakers mind-set -- Charting the way head.
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Business enterprises, Foreign-- Taxation-- Ireland.