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Why Ireland starved : a quantitative and analytical history of the Irish economy, 1800-1850

Author: Joel Mokyr
Publisher: Abingdon : Routledge, 2010, ©1985.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : Rev. edView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: History
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joel Mokyr
ISBN: 0415607647 9780415607643
OCLC Number: 1110259923
Notes: This ed. originally published: George Allen & Unwin, 1985. Previous ed.: 1983.
Description: x, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: Acknowledgements page ix{ensp}1 Introduction 1{ensp}2 A Poverty-Stricken Economy? 6{ensp}3 The Problem of Population: Was Maithus Right? 30{ensp}4 Land, Leases, and Length of Tenure 81{ensp}5 The Economics of Rural Conflict and Unrest 112{ensp}6 The Problem of Wealth 151{ensp}7 The Human Factor: Entrepreneurship and Labor 197{ensp}8 Emigration and the Prefamine Economy 230{ensp}9 The Great Famine: the Economics of Vulnerability 26110 Explaining Irish Poverty 278Bibliography 295Index 317
Responsibility: Joel Mokyr.

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