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Five Crises

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  • Cormac Ó Gráda

    (University College Dublin)

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The paper places Ireland's current economic crisis in historical perspective. It compares it with four others since independence: those of 1934-38, 1939-45, the 1950s, and the 1980s. The present crisis is arguably the gravest of the five.

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  • Cormac Ó Gráda, 2011. "Five Crises," Working Papers 201112, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucn:wpaper:201112
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