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This book offers a discerning narrative on the spectacular rise and fall of the so-called Celtic Tiger economy. It depicts Ireland as a micro-state with a unique reliance on foreign-assisted businesses, driven in part by a favourable taxation regime. It shows that rent-seeking by trades unions and property developers contributed to the fall since 2002. Although the country¿s highly centralized government¿s pre-disposition to lobbying has yield...

For the first time in its history, the Republic of Ireland faces serious regional problems. The urban economic might of the big cities is leaving the rural areas behind. At the same time rising house prices and traffic congestion are hurting the cities. All of this may undermine future national prosperity. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the problems currently facing Irish regions and to analyze, from an economics...