The 'Celtic Tiger' - An Analysis of Ireland's Economic Growth Performance

Ireland; Europeanization; globalization; employment policy

Corporate Ownership in France: The Importance of History

This paper attempts to show the importance of history in influencing the structure of corporate ownership in France. The strong concentration of family ownership in France is traced to historical weaknesses in the money and capital markets that forced families to have recourse to self-financing. The weaknesses in the money and capital markets were greatly influenced by two eighteenth century financial traumas arising from John Law's Mississippi System (1716-20) and the financing of the French Revolution through the issue of the assignats in the 1790s.These financial traumas delayed significantly the emergence of banks and the capital market. Further historical factors influencing French corporate ownership were the changes in the inheritance law system at the start of the nineteenth century and, more recently, the emphasis on a pay-as-you-go pension system.

Investigation of grain orientations of melt-textured HTSC with addition of uranium oxide, Y2O3 and Y2BaCuO5

Local grain orientations were studied in melt-textured YBCO samples processed with various amounts of depleted uranuim oxide (DU) and Y 2O3 by means of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis. The addition of DU leads to the formation of Ucontaining nanoparticles (Y2Ba4CuUOx) with sizes of around 200 nm, embedded in the superconducting Y-123 matrix. The orientation of the Y 2BaCuO5 (Y-211) particles, which are also present in the YBCO bulk microstructure, is generally random as is the case in other melttextured Y-123 samples. The presence of Y-211 particles, however, also affects the orientation of the Y-123 matrix in these samples

Terence M. Ryan (1942-2003): an appreciation

Terence M. Ryan died in June 2003. Terry was one of the most promising members of the nouvelle vague of young Irish economists who studied at the University of Essex in the late 1960s and early 1970s. All had graduated in economics in University College Dublin and went to the campus at Essex to capture the excitement of a younger generation of economists lecturing at graduate level in this renowned new university. Alongside Paddy Geary, Colm McCarthy and Sean Murray he studied under such renowned economists as Chris Archibald, Robert Clower, David Laidler, Richard Lipsey, Michio Morishima and Michael Parkin. The `Essex four? returned to Ireland and all stamped their mark on the development of economic teaching, research and economic policy in Ireland

John Law et la gestion de la dette publique

Au début de sa carrière, grâce aux conseils prodigués au gouvernement anglais en 1704 et au parlement écossais en 1705, John Law s’était fait connaître par ses projets de land banks (banques foncières). Si, en présentant ses idées aux ministres de Louis XIV, Law était plus proche d’un système bancaire calqué sur le modèle de la Banque d’Angleterre que du crédit foncier, ses projets semblèrent tout d’abord se limiter à la création d’une banque. Pourtant, une lecture attentive des mémoires qu’i..

The genesis of macroeconomics : pemikiran-pemikiran baru mulai dari Sir William Petty hingga Henry Thornton

xii, 276 hlm. ; 23 cm

The Genesis of macroeconomics : pemikiran -pemikiran baru mulai dari Sir William Petty hingga Henry Thornton

xii,276 p. : il.; 23 cm

The Genesis of Macroeconomics :Pemikiran-pemikiran baru mulai dari Sir William Petty hingga Henry Thornton

xi, 275 hal. : ill.; 21 c