Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922-1972

Prof Frank Barry (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-887823-0 (ISBN)

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This book revisits the history of industry and industrial and economic policy in independent Ireland from the birth of the state to the eve of EEC accession. Though there were several manufacturing employers of significance, and smaller firms in operation in almost every major branch of industry, the Irish Free State was predominantly agricultural at its establishment in 1922. Industrial development was high on the nationalist agenda, as would be the case across the entire developing world in the later post-colonial era. Despite decades of protection, and a substantial increase in the size of the manufacturing sector, Ireland remained under-industrialised when it joined the European Economic Community in 1973. Over the previous decade and a half however the foundations of later convergence had been laid. Ireland was an early adopter of what would come to be known as dual-track reform. The policy of attracting outward-oriented foreign direct investment was initiated before substantial trade liberalisation began. By 1972 there had been a significant diversification in export categories and export destinations, and in the nationality of ownership of the leading manufacturing firms. Some of the most successful indigenous companies of the future were also beginning to emerge. In these and other respects the foundations of the economic progress that would be made over the course of EEC membership were already discernible, notwithstanding the post-accession collapse of most protectionist-era businesses.

The analysis is supplemented by a unique firm-level database that allows for the identification of the leading manufacturing firms in operation at any stage from the early 1900s through to 1972. The database extends by more than 50 years the period for which estimates of the significance of foreign-owned industry can be provided.

Frank Barry is Professor of International Business and Economic Development at Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He holds a PhD in Economics from Queen's University, Ontario, and has held visiting positions at the Universities of Stockholm, California, and New South Wales, and with the Harvard Institute for International Development. He has served as an economic consultant across the developed and developing world. His research interests are in foreign direct investment and the modern economy, and in Irish economic and business history.

1: Vantage Point, 1972
2: The Pre-1922 Southern Business Establishment and its Legacy
3: Firms of Note in 1922
4: The Irish Free State of the 1920s
5: From the Great Depression to the End of the Emergency
6: The Post-War World and Dual-Track Reform
7: Trade Liberalisation and the Road to Europe
8: The Industrial Landscape of 1972 and Beyond
9: Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	29.09.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-887823-0 / 0198878230
ISBN-13	978-0-19-887823-0 / 9780198878230
Zustand	Neuware