war -- GDP and convergence in modern times -- Cliometrics and the great depression -- Financial Systems -- Cliometric …

Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social change. Over the last decade, the apparently … expose the fallacies that drive the fashionable rhetoris of Tigerhood. Four of these fallacies - that Ireland has cast off … liberty are at an unprecedented level for all citizens, and that Ireland is also experiencing a period of strong cultural …

shortfalls into famine. The third part contains case studies from various parts of Africa: Nigeria, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia … lessons for African leaders in how other leaders have dealt with drought, famine and food crises in the past …