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Watchdogs of the Economy: The Development of the Irish Economics Profession's Independent Voice

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  • Joseph K. Fitzgerald
  • Brendan K. O’Rourke

    (College of Business, Technological University Dublin, Ireland)

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Histories of the development of professions show a profession's relationship with the state as key to its authority. Yet professions, to gain technocratic authority, also strive to depoliticise their discourses to gain technocratic authority. This dilemmatic tension is particularly true for the economics profession. The historical development of the Irish economics provides an interesting case, where a complicated relationship with the state ultimately strengthened the profession within a society. An initial formalisation trajectory of Irish economics was thrown off course by the formation of an independent Irish state in the 1920s. This marked a period of isolation for the profession and saw it ostracised from government policy. Subsequent developments also saw the Irish economists’ position as critics of government policy rather than a core part of the state.

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  • Joseph K. Fitzgerald & Brendan K. O’Rourke, 2023. "Watchdogs of the Economy: The Development of the Irish Economics Profession's Independent Voice," Transfer: Irish Economic and Social History, , vol. 50(1), pages 57-73, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ieshis:v:50:y:2023:i:1:p:57-73
    DOI: 10.1177/03324893231161916
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