Frank Barry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784721 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Barry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Barry |
| SIGNATURE | BARRY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A reappraisal of Cumann na nGaedheal economic policy
This article surveys the economic policies pursued over the first decade of the Irish Free State. The Cumann na nGaedheal governments of W. T. Cosgrave are argued to have been more pragmatic than ideological in their approach and to have been more successful in their management of the economy than is generally realised
Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922-1972
This book revisits the history of industry and the evolution of development policy in independent Ireland from the birth of the state to the eve of European Economic Community (EEC) accession. The Irish Free State was predominantly agricultural at its establishment in 1922. Industrial development was high on the nationalist agenda of all of the newly established European states of the inter-war period, as would later be the case across the entire…
A reappraisal of Joseph Brennan and the achievements of Irish banking and currency policy 1922–1943
Joseph Brennan, as secretary of the Irish Department of Finance (1923–7) and chair of the Irish Currency Commission (1927–43), was a pivotal influence on Irish banking and currency affairs. Yet, within the existing literature, his adherence to conservative British norms is seen as providing a ‘bleak prescription’ for the Irish economy. However, such a view ignores the fact that Brennan was far from dogmatic on banking and currency issues and unde…
Protection Versus Free Trade in the Free State Era
Belief in the benefits of industrial protection had long been a cornerstone of nationalist ideology. Cumann na nGaedheal followed a policy of selective protection while Fianna Fáil was ideologically committed not just to import-substituting industrialisation but to as high a degree of self-sufficiency as possible. The Departments of Finance and Industry and Commerce differed sharply on the costs and benefits of trade restrictions. This article ex…
Regime Change in 1950s Ireland
The new Irish export-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI) regime of the 1950s was an inter-party government initiative that facilitated the later Whitaker and Lemass-led dismantling of protectionist trade barriers. The potential opposition of protectionist-era industry to the new FDI regime was defused by confining the new tax relief to profits derived solely from exports, by allocating new industrial grants only to firms that 'would not comp…
Foreign Direct Investment and Institutional Co-Evolution in Ireland
Ireland was one of the first countries in the world to adopt an FDI-oriented development strategy. It remains to this day the most FDI-intensive economy in Europe. These factors have helped configure the institutional structure of the economy to be able to respond rapidly to changes in the nature and requirements of the type of global FDI that an economy with Ireland’s advantages (and disadvantages) could reasonably hope to attract. This paper an…
Economic Integration and Convergence Processes in the EU Cohesion Countries
This article compares the economic performance of the EU cohesion countries—Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland — from 1960 to the present, in order to identify the processes that have promoted or inhibited real convergence prospects at various points in time. The likely impacts of EMU in strengthening or weakening these processes are then analysed. Amongst the factors studied are labour‐market performance, macroeconomic stability and the efficac…
The Single Market, the Structural Funds and Ireland's Recent Economic Growth
Indigenous and Foreign Industry
From the early 1930s to the late 1950s high tariff barriers and a broad prohibition on foreign ownership of firms operating in Ireland were the cornerstone of policies designed to promote growth of indigenous manufacturing from the very low base inherited at independence in 1922. By the late 1950s it was clear that protectionism had long outlived its usefulness and that few of the so-called infant industries had matured and become sufficiently co…
The Real Convergence of the Irish Economy and the Sectoral Distribution of Employment Growth
In this chapter we present the basic facts of the recent Irish growth experience. The last decade has seen a substantial increase in income per head and in employment numbers, so that Ireland has converged rapidly on European and UK living standards. Furthermore, this progress was achieved with low inflation and without the sacrifice of fiscal or balance of payments stability. Productivity growth has been substantially higher than the European av…
Irish Growth in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
The nature of the Irish economy, and the definition of Ireland’s economic problem, were shaped by a combination of events that occurred in the nineteenth century. One of these was the large-scale emigration that the Great Famine induced. This left as its legacy a willingness and an ability on the part of the population to migrate when economic prospects elsewhere seemed brighter. Ireland henceforth functioned more as a regional economy, whose pop…
The European Dimension
Membership of the European Union has impacted on Ireland and the Irish economy in many ways. The primary focus of this chapter is on the impact of the Single Market process and the Structural Funds expenditure programmes To many readers is might appear strange that we have little to say on the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). There are two reasons for this. The first is that, as is clear from Chapter 1, agricultural output has not …
Understanding Ireland’s Economic Growth
This is an authoritative and topical assessment of Ireland's impressive economic growth record which has seen it dubbed 'the Celtic tiger'. Leading scholars from Ireland and beyond discuss Ireland's s
FDI and Trade
In Irish manufacturing, the foreign sector accounts for about one half of employment and some 60% of gross output. The Irish experience therefore provides us with a textbook case study of the effects on an EU host economy of export-oriented FDI. We explore in this paper the structural changes induced by FDI and the effects of FDI on the determinants of growth in Ireland. We also consider some possible adverse effects that may be associated with s…
Understanding Ireland’s Economic Growth
This is an authoritative and topical assessment of Ireland's impressive economic growth record which has seen it dubbed 'the Celtic tiger'. Leading scholars from Ireland and beyond discuss Ireland's s
FDI and Trade
In Irish manufacturing, the foreign sector accounts for about one half of employment and some 60% of gross output. The Irish experience therefore provides us with a textbook case study of the effects on an EU host economy of export-oriented FDI. We explore in this paper the structural changes induced by FDI and the effects of FDI on the determinants of growth in Ireland. We also consider some possible adverse effects that may be associated with s…
The Single Market, the Structural Funds and Ireland's Recent Economic Growth
Regime Change in 1950s Ireland
The new Irish export-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI) regime of the 1950s was an inter-party government initiative that facilitated the later Whitaker and Lemass-led dismantling of protectionist trade barriers. The potential opposition of protectionist-era industry to the new FDI regime was defused by confining the new tax relief to profits derived solely from exports, by allocating new industrial grants only to firms that 'would not comp…
Protection Versus Free Trade in the Free State Era
Belief in the benefits of industrial protection had long been a cornerstone of nationalist ideology. Cumann na nGaedheal followed a policy of selective protection while Fianna Fáil was ideologically committed not just to import-substituting industrialisation but to as high a degree of self-sufficiency as possible. The Departments of Finance and Industry and Commerce differed sharply on the costs and benefits of trade restrictions. This article ex…
Economic Integration and Convergence Processes in the EU Cohesion Countries
This article compares the economic performance of the EU cohesion countries—Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland — from 1960 to the present, in order to identify the processes that have promoted or inhibited real convergence prospects at various points in time. The likely impacts of EMU in strengthening or weakening these processes are then analysed. Amongst the factors studied are labour‐market performance, macroeconomic stability and the efficac…
FDI and Trade
In Irish manufacturing, the foreign sector accounts for about one half of employment and some 60% of gross output. The Irish experience therefore provides us with a textbook case study of the effects on an EU host economy of export-oriented FDI. We explore in this paper the structural changes induced by FDI and the effects of FDI on the determinants of growth in Ireland. We also consider some possible adverse effects that may be associated with s…
Indigenous and Foreign Industry
From the early 1930s to the late 1950s high tariff barriers and a broad prohibition on foreign ownership of firms operating in Ireland were the cornerstone of policies designed to promote growth of indigenous manufacturing from the very low base inherited at independence in 1922. By the late 1950s it was clear that protectionism had long outlived its usefulness and that few of the so-called infant industries had matured and become sufficiently co…
The Real Convergence of the Irish Economy and the Sectoral Distribution of Employment Growth
In this chapter we present the basic facts of the recent Irish growth experience. The last decade has seen a substantial increase in income per head and in employment numbers, so that Ireland has converged rapidly on European and UK living standards. Furthermore, this progress was achieved with low inflation and without the sacrifice of fiscal or balance of payments stability. Productivity growth has been substantially higher than the European av…
Irish Growth in Historical and Theoretical Perspective
The nature of the Irish economy, and the definition of Ireland’s economic problem, were shaped by a combination of events that occurred in the nineteenth century. One of these was the large-scale emigration that the Great Famine induced. This left as its legacy a willingness and an ability on the part of the population to migrate when economic prospects elsewhere seemed brighter. Ireland henceforth functioned more as a regional economy, whose pop…
The European Dimension
Membership of the European Union has impacted on Ireland and the Irish economy in many ways. The primary focus of this chapter is on the impact of the Single Market process and the Structural Funds expenditure programmes To many readers is might appear strange that we have little to say on the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). There are two reasons for this. The first is that, as is clear from Chapter 1, agricultural output has not …
Understanding Ireland’s Economic Growth
This is an authoritative and topical assessment of Ireland's impressive economic growth record which has seen it dubbed 'the Celtic tiger'. Leading scholars from Ireland and beyond discuss Ireland's s
The Single Market, the Structural Funds and Ireland's Recent Economic Growth
Economic Integration and Convergence Processes in the EU Cohesion Countries
This article compares the economic performance of the EU cohesion countries—Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland — from 1960 to the present, in order to identify the processes that have promoted or inhibited real convergence prospects at various points in time. The likely impacts of EMU in strengthening or weakening these processes are then analysed. Amongst the factors studied are labour‐market performance, macroeconomic stability and the efficac…
Foreign Direct Investment and Institutional Co-Evolution in Ireland
Ireland was one of the first countries in the world to adopt an FDI-oriented development strategy. It remains to this day the most FDI-intensive economy in Europe. These factors have helped configure the institutional structure of the economy to be able to respond rapidly to changes in the nature and requirements of the type of global FDI that an economy with Ireland’s advantages (and disadvantages) could reasonably hope to attract. This paper an…
Regime Change in 1950s Ireland
The new Irish export-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI) regime of the 1950s was an inter-party government initiative that facilitated the later Whitaker and Lemass-led dismantling of protectionist trade barriers. The potential opposition of protectionist-era industry to the new FDI regime was defused by confining the new tax relief to profits derived solely from exports, by allocating new industrial grants only to firms that 'would not comp…
Protection Versus Free Trade in the Free State Era
Belief in the benefits of industrial protection had long been a cornerstone of nationalist ideology. Cumann na nGaedheal followed a policy of selective protection while Fianna Fáil was ideologically committed not just to import-substituting industrialisation but to as high a degree of self-sufficiency as possible. The Departments of Finance and Industry and Commerce differed sharply on the costs and benefits of trade restrictions. This article ex…
A reappraisal of Joseph Brennan and the achievements of Irish banking and currency policy 1922–1943
Joseph Brennan, as secretary of the Irish Department of Finance (1923–7) and chair of the Irish Currency Commission (1927–43), was a pivotal influence on Irish banking and currency affairs. Yet, within the existing literature, his adherence to conservative British norms is seen as providing a ‘bleak prescription’ for the Irish economy. However, such a view ignores the fact that Brennan was far from dogmatic on banking and currency issues and unde…
Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922-1972
This book revisits the history of industry and the evolution of development policy in independent Ireland from the birth of the state to the eve of European Economic Community (EEC) accession. The Irish Free State was predominantly agricultural at its establishment in 1922. Industrial development was high on the nationalist agenda of all of the newly established European states of the inter-war period, as would later be the case across the entire…
A reappraisal of Cumann na nGaedheal economic policy
This article surveys the economic policies pursued over the first decade of the Irish Free State. The Cumann na nGaedheal governments of W. T. Cosgrave are argued to have been more pragmatic than ideological in their approach and to have been more successful in their management of the economy than is generally realised
Economics (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Irish (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (6 works) · International economics (6 works) · International trade (6 works) · Irish and British Studies (5 works) · Regional Development and Policy (5 works) · Economy (4 works)