What If Ireland Defaults? 9781871305487, 9781871305524, 9781871305531, 1871305489

287 53 2MB

English Pages xxii, 286 pages ; 24 cm Year 2012

Report DMCA / Copyright

DOWNLOAD FILE

What If Ireland Defaults?
 9781871305487, 9781871305524, 9781871305531, 1871305489

Table of contents :
Setting the scene --
Debt, crises and default from a parliamentary perspective / Sean Barrett --
Crises and contagion: a study / Anzhela Knyazeva, Diana Knyazeva and Joseph Stiglitz --
Ireland --
Debt restructuring in Ireland: orderly, selective and unavoidable / Constantin Gurdgiev --
Ireland's public debt --
tel me a story we have not heard yet / Seamus Coffey --
A very Irish default, or when is a default not a default? / Stephen Kinsella --
How to survive on the Titanic: Ireland's relationship with Europe / Megan Greene --
Country Studies --
The Russian crisis and the crisis of Russia / Constantin Gurdgiev --
Iceland: the accidental hero / Elaine Byrne and Huginn F. Þorsteinsson --
Irish public debt: a view through the lens of the Argentine default / Tony Phillips --
Coring out the Big Apple: New York's fiscal crisis / Sam Roberts --
When cities default / Marc Tomljanovich --
Perspectives --
A market participant's perspective on debt and default / Peter Brown --
A mortgage broker's perspective on debt and default / Karl Deeter --
The IMF and the dilemmas of sovereign default / Gary O'Callaghan --
A politician's perspective on debt and default / Peter Mathews --
A financial journalist's perspective on debt and default / John Walsh --
A behavioural economist's perspective on debt and default / Michael Dowling --
A political activist and businessperson's perspective on debt and default / Declan Ganley.

Polecaj historie