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What If Ireland Defaults?

What If Ireland Defaults?

Authors/Editors	Brian Lucey, Charles Larkin and Constantin Gurdgiev (editors)
ISBN	978-1-871305-48-7
Publication Date	29/03/2012

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That Ireland might default on her financial debts to Europe and the IMF is an ongoing theme in the media. What If Ireland Defaults? addresses this great ‘What If?’ question.

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That Ireland might default on her financial debts to Europe and the IMF is an ongoing theme in the media. What If Ireland Defaults? addresses this great ‘What If?’ question.

Ireland’s financial crisis and the good and bad of default are discussed from the perspectives of different stakeholders and commentators, such as a market participant, a mortgage broker, an IMF economist, a politician and a financial journalist, as well as a number of eminent Irish and international economists and commentators.
Contributors include:

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz

economists Constantin Gurdgiev, Megan Greene and Stephen Kinsella

Peter Mathews TD

Senator Sean Barrett

businessman and political activist Declan Ganley

politics lecturer and journalist Elaine Byrne

Sam Roberts, urban affairs correspondent for the New York Times

Huginn Thorsteinsson, philosopher and adviser to the Icelandic Minister of Economic Affairs and the Icelandic Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture

John Walsh, editor of Business & Finance

Peter Brown, director of the Irish Institute of Financial Trading

Karl Deeter, director of Irish Mortgage Brokers

Written with the interested general public in mind, the book is unique in its treatment of the theme of default from many different angles.

About the editors

Brian Lucey is a Professor of Finance in Trinity College Dublin and a columnist with the Irish Examiner.
Constantin Gurdgiev is Adjunct Professor at the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin and an international newspaper columnist.
Charles Larkin is research associate in the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin.

"The book is an excellent read — It needs to be read by our politicians and higher public servants. For the rest of us, it’s an excellent way to get up the learning curve."

John Finn, Irish Examiner, 9 April 2012