Ireland’s dramatic recovery from its severe and prolonged economic crisis has led to the country being regarded as a ‘poster child’ for economic regeneration from fiscal austerity. The Irish case has been widely hailed by the Troika institutions as evidence that where a country stuck closely to prescribed austerity measures, the fiscal disciplines and structural […]
Bill Roche, Philip O’Connell and Andy Prothero
William K. Roche and Andy Prothero are Professors at the School of Business, University College Dublin. Philip J. O’Connell is Director of the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. Their edited volume, Austerity & Recovery in Ireland: Europe’s Poster Child and the Great Recession, is published by Oxford University Press.