The Irish Miracle

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Wed Jul 21 15:06:03 PDT 1999


On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 Rkmickey at aol.com wrote:


> The investments in schooling and other good things go back to well before
> Ireland joined the (then) EEC in 1973. The origin of these policies are
> usually associated with T.K. Whittaker and Lemass's government in the
late
> 1950s. The commitment to education in particular was pretty consistent
> through subsequent governments, although very much favouring the upper
fifth
> of the population in its benefits

Interesting. Did they invest a lot in basic education, or prestige projects for a cultivated elite, a la Britain? Or did the state just rent itself out for Intel, kind of like a low-rent Singapore?

-- Dennis
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You tell a nice social-democratic story, but weren't their investment incentives of some sort -- tax preferences, subsidies, deregulation, etc. in the more recent period?

mbs



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