Ship of Fools

Descriere

For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude seemed to have created boundless prosperity. And then, as in Iceland, the glittering palaces vanished in the heat of the global financial meltdown. For years, those with economic power had been investing in a gigantic property bubble.
In Ship of Fools Fintan O'Toole tells the story of this dizzying rise and sickening fall. Ireland may have had a tiger economy, but those in charge of it had not lost their taste for sweetheart deals, back-handers and bribery. This is the essential analysis of Ireland's economic suicide.

Despre autor

Fintan O'Toole

jurnalist irlandez · n. 1958

Fintan O’Toole este un jurnalist, editor literar și critic de teatru irlandez pentru The Irish Times, pentru care scrie din 1988. A fost critic de teatru pentru New York Daily News între 1997 și 2001 și este editor consultativ și colaborator frecvent al The New York Review of Books. De asemenea, este autor, critic literar, scriitor de istorie și comentator politic.