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This chapter is an appraisal of the follies of Irish development strategy, the last and only word in economic reason according to many devotees, since my book on the topic several decades back. Groupthink ran ever more hysterically wild among elites in the Irish Republic right up to the great crash.
“If you wish to know what the spirit of conquest, religious hatred, combined with all the abuses of aristocracy without any of its advantages, can produce, come to Ireland .”—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 1
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Jacobsen, K. (2017). Loose Ends: Considerations on the Aftermaths of the Celtic Tiger and the Northern ‘Troubles’. In: International Politics and Inner Worlds. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54352-9_8
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