Anglo Republic

Anglo Republic
Author: Simon Carswell
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2011-09-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0141969725

As late as 2007, Anglo Irish Bank was a darling of the markets, internationally recognized as one of the fastest growing financial institutions in the world. By 2008, it was bust. The Irish government's hopeless attempts to save Anglo have led the state to ruin - culminating in a punitive IMF bailout in late 2010 and threatening the future of the euro. Now, for the first time, the full story of the Anglo disaster is being told - by the journalist who has led the way in coverage of the bank and its many secrets. Drawing on his unmatched sources in and around Anglo, Simon Carswell of the Irish Times shows how the business model that brought Anglo twenty years of spectacular growth was also at the heart of its - and Ireland's - downfall. He paints a vivid and disturbing picture of life inside Anglo - the credit committee meetings, the lightning-quick negotiations with property developers, the culture of lavish entertainment for politicians and regulators - and of the men who presided over its dizzying rise and fall: Sean FitzPatrick, David Drumm, Willie McAteer and many others. This is not only the first full account of the Anglo disaster; it will also be the definitive one.

Currency, Credit and Crisis

Currency, Credit and Crisis
Author: Patrick Honohan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108481892

Ireland's experience of Europe's most spectacular financial bubble, bust and recovery is narrated and dissected by a central banking insider.

An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence

An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence
Author: Andy Bielenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415566940

This book traces the evolution of the Irish economy since independence looking at how the state sought to shape, regulate and deregulate economic activity to deal with the challenges posed by the wider international environment.

Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution

Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution
Author: Sean D. Moore
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2010-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0801899249

Winner, 2010 Donald Murphy Prize for a Distinguished First Book, American Conference on Irish Studies Renowned as one of the most brilliant satirists ever, Jonathan Swift has long fascinated Hibernophiles beyond the shores of the Emerald Isle. Sean Moore's examination of Swift's writings and the economics behind the distribution of his work elucidates the humorist's crucial role in developing a renewed sense of nationalism among the Irish during the eighteenth century. Taking Swift's Irish satires, such as A Modest Proposal and the Drapier's Letters, as examples of anticolonial discourse, Moore unpacks the author's carefully considered published words and his deliberate drive to liberate the Dublin publishing industry from England's shadow to argue that the writer was doing nothing less than creating a national print media. He points to the actions of Anglo-Irish colonial subjects at the outset of Britain's financial revolution; inspired by Swift's dream of a sovereign Ireland, these men and women harnessed the printing press to disseminate ideas of cultural autonomy and defend the country's economic rights. Doing so, Moore contends, imbued the island with a sense of Irishness that led to a feeling of independence from England and ultimately gave the Irish a surprising degree of financial autonomy. Applying postcolonial, new economic, and book history approaches to eighteenth-century studies, Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution effectively links the era's critiques of empire to the financial and legal motives for decolonization. Scholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, Irish studies, Atlantic studies, Swift, and the history of the book will find Moore's eye-opening arguments original and compelling.

Colonial and Foreign Banking Systems (RLE Banking & Finance)

Colonial and Foreign Banking Systems (RLE Banking & Finance)
Author: Keith Le Cheminant
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136265120

This volume examines various banking systems from around the world as well as the mechanisms of international and central banking. Although inevitably a reflection of the banking landscape at the time it was originally published, the book nonetheless represents a valuable tool in providing information on the history of banks and the banking sector which laid the foundations of the system we know today.

Empire of Credit

Empire of Credit
Author: Daniel Carey (Professor)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Comparative economics
ISBN: 9780716534150

This work describes the massive expansion in public debt brought about during the 'Financial Revolution' in 18th-century Britain, Ireland, and America. It discusses how debt was financed and new credit instruments introduced for the first time in this period.