The crisis in real estate mortgage lending that erupted in the United States in 2007 shook the foundations of the American financial system. The crisis was caused in part by mortgage loan originators, who lent improvidently to unqualified buyers on over-valued property, and by unsophisticated...

Muintir na Tire’s role in the emergence of the discipline of Sociology in Ireland is usually acknowledged with reference to the Limerick Rural Survey (1958-64) that it initiated, part-funded and published. In the first half of the 1960s the movement also put proposals to the Irish government...