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The Good Room: Why we ended up in a debtors' prison – and how we can break free

The Good Room: Why we ended up in a debtors' prison – and how we can break free


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Ireland's leading popular economist paints a portrait of austerity Ireland - and offers an alternative path Ireland is deeply in debt, beholden to the IMF, the EU and the bond markets. Its economy is frozen, and years of austerity are ahead. It didn't have to be this way - and it doesn't have to be this way. In The Good Room, David McWilliams - who spotted the Irish property bubble and warned of imbalances within the eurozone at a time when other commentators were cheerleading the boom - explains the bizarre economics and peculiar psychology behind Ireland's predicament. He brings us on a tour of his granny's 'good room' - a shrine of respectability, reserved for important visitors - and shows how our ruling class has succumbed to a perverse 'good room' mentality, seeking always to appease our supposed betters. He explains why austerity can't work and shows that history offers numerous useful models for Irish recovery. And, through the character of Olivia Vickers - a young woman struggling to repay her mortgage - he illustrates the consequences of debt and austerity for ordinary Irish people. Economics is about people like you. The Pope's Children was the book that connected the dots between economics and daily life in Ireland during the boom years. The Good Room does the same for the Ireland of today, and is - in its call for a completely different approach - an even more urgent and necessary book.

About the Author :
David McWilliams is Ireland's leading popular economist, and a columnist for the Irish Independent and the Sunday Business Post. He is the author of the bestsellers The Pope's Children, The Generation Game, and Follow the Money.

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McWilliams has a great knack for bringing a complex economics story to life. He is also funny. In economics, that's a rare and persuasive combination. A gifted and often courageous polemicist who has done more to popularize the debate about economics in Ireland than anyone else McWilliams makes a compelling argument for the need for a different approach to Irish and European economic management ... [A] realistic, pragmatic call for innovative policies that take account of proven economic theory


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780241956205
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 249 gr
  • ISBN-10: 024195620X
  • Publisher Date: 02 May 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Why we ended up in a debtors' prison – and how we can break free
  • Width: 129 mm


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