Tyler Cowen Recommends "Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change"
Recommended by Tyler Cowen:
R. F. Foster (2008), "Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970"Books (New York: Oxford University Press: 0195179528).
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Recommended by Tyler Cowen:
R. F. Foster (2008), "Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970"Books (New York: Oxford University Press: 0195179528).
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Don't bother. Foster is a wonderful literary biographer (of Yeats in particular), but his economic knowledge isn't great and I don't think he has much sense of the big picture narrative.
There's still a gap in the market, though, for a good account of the recent socio-economic history of Ireland. Diarmuid Ferriter's Ireland 1900-2000 doesn't really hit the mark either. What we really need is Kevin O'Rourke and Cormac O Grada to get off their asses and stick pen to paper on this...
Posted by: Bonapart O Cunasa | February 29, 2008 at 03:50 AM