Ireland
The Celtic Tiger and its bust are exceptionally well documented, from polemical overview down to the anatomy of the single bank that broke the sovereign.
9 books · 1 people behind it
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- BoomerangMichael Lewis, 2011
- Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic TigerFintan O'Toole, 2009
- Anglo Republic: Inside the Bank That Broke IrelandSimon Carswell, 2011
The people behind it 1
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Journalists 1
Books 9
T1 Boomerang
Michael Lewis · 2011 · The Ireland chapter on the developer-banker nexus and the blanket guarantee.
Ray MacSharry, Padraic White · 2000 · Insider: the finance minister and IDA head on how the FDI model was built.
Fintan O'Toole · 2009 · Written in the wreckage; angry but specific about tax breaks, planning and regulatory capture.
Matt Cooper · 2009 · The developer-banker-politician network that inflated the property bubble.
Peadar Kirby · 2010 · Structural reading of why the growth model was fragile from the start.
Simon Carswell · 2011 · The best forensic account: Anglo Irish Bank's loan book, the Quinn stake and the guarantee night.
Tom Lyons, Brian Carey · 2011 · Anglo Irish Bank's chairman in his own words, from recorded interviews.
Donal Donovan, Antoin E. Murphy · 2013 · Sober macro account by a former IMF official; the counterweight to the journalism.
Shane Ross · 2009 · Board-level reporting on the Irish banks and their regulators.