Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the country's ability to suffer economic pain will attract investors and generate a recovery. In this book Kieran Allen challenges this official narrative and argues that the Irish...

Marxist criticism of Anthony Giddens's sociology tends to fall into one of two camps. On one side, numerous authors have criticised Giddens's methodological writings for their failure to properly elucidate the relationship between agency and structure. Giddens's refusal to accept a role for...

Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the country’s ability to suffer economic pain will attract investors and generate a recovery.<BR><BR>In <I>Austerity Ireland</I>, Kieran Allen challenges this official image and argues that the Irish...</i>