Business
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23723145 |
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| Authors | FERGUS CAMPBELL, F W Campbell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 191-241 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Irish establishment, 1879-1914 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233229.003.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W4246298259 |
| ISBN | 9780199233229 |
| Open Library | OL23235278M |
| Language | EN |
This chapter examines the composition of the business elite in Ireland between 1883 and 1911 and finds that Catholics were extremely under‐represented in terms of their numbers in the population. The chapter then considers why this was the case and engages with the Weber–Tawney debate that suggested that Catholics had less business acumen than Protestants. This hypothesis is refuted and the extent to which the social networks from which the business elite were recruited were dominated by Protestants is presented instead as the main cause of Catholic under‐representation.
Economics · Elite · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Population · Positive economics · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Demography · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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