Browsing Economic and Social Review by Subject "Book review"
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Book review: A sociology of Ireland / by Hilary Tovey and Perry Share. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2000.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)According to its authors, this book has two aims. The first is to offer an interpretation of the development of Irish society. The second is to provide an introduction to the discipline of sociology. Underpinning both of ... -
Book review: Interrogating Irish policies / by William Kingston. Dublin: Dublin University Press, 2007.
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Book review: The politics of high-tech growth: developmental network states in the global economy / by Sean O Riain. Cambridge University Press. 2004.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)?Sticky places in slippery space? is one of the best-known phrases from the literature on economic geography. The ?slippery space? is the globalised world of highly mobile capital, labour and technology. The ?sticky places? ... -
Book review: An introduction to Irish planning law / by Berna Grist. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1999.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)This slim volume (93 pages) is a very lucidly written overview of the planning system in Ireland, directed at the non-specialist. It is of particular value for those who wish to understand the evolution of the planning ... -
Book review: Cottage to creche: family change in Ireland / by Finola Kennedy. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2001.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)Officially, huge importance was attached to the family in twentieth century Ireland, the most obvious manifestation of this is in the Constitution of 1937 where it is afforded the status of a moral institution with inalienable ... -
Book review: Garret Fitzgerald: all in a life: an autobiography / by Michael Gallagher. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1991.
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Book review: Preventing the future: why was Ireland so poor for so long? / by Tom Garvin. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2004.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)In the last year of peace before the First World War, Ireland had (though this book does not make any such comparison) reached a level of per capita income roughly comparable with that of Swaziland today, while the remainder ... -
Book review: Selling out? ? privatisation in Ireland / by Paul Sweeney. Dublin: TASC/New Island, 2004.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)Over the last fourteen years the Irish government has withdrawn entirely from direct public provision in sectors such as banking, food, insurance and telecommunications. The wave of privatisation and rationalisation that ... -
Book review: The growth illusion / by Richard Douthwaite. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1992."
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Review Symposium of 'Best of times? the social impact of the Celtic Tiger' / edited by Tony Fahey, Helen Russell, Christopher T. Whelan. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2007.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)Socio-economic change in Ireland has long been tracked by research at the Economic and Social Research Institute, and from time to time, has been punctuated by volumes from the ESRI that seek to review the evidence on the ... -
What you see is what you get? - Review article: Encounters with modern Ireland: a sociological chronicle, 1995-96 / Michel Peillon and Eamonn Slater (eds.). Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1998.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)Time was when Sociology took a pride in the difficulty of its subject, ?society?, and book covers presented themselves accordingly. The cover of Breen et al. (1990) promises to focus ?on the relationship between the policies ...