What if Ireland Defaults?

That Ireland might default on her financial debts to Europe and the IMF is an ongoing theme in the media. What If Ireland Defaults? addresses this great "What If?" question.

Ireland's financial crisis and the good and bad of default are discussed from the perspectives of different stakeholders and commentators, such as a market participant, a mortgage broker, an IMF economist, a politician and a financial journalist, as well as a number of eminent Irish and international economists and commentators.

Contributors include:

• Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz
• economists Constantin Gurdgiev, Megan Greene and Stephen Kinsella
• Peter Mathews TD
• Senator Sean Barrett
• businessman and political activist Declan Ganley
• politics lecturer and journalist Elaine Byrne
• Sam Roberts, urban affairs correspondent for the New York Times
• Huginn Thorsteinsson, philosopher and adviser to the Icelandic Minister of Economic Affairs and the Icelandic Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture
• John Walsh, editor of Business & Finance
• Peter Brown, director of the Irish Institute of Financial Trading
• Karl Deeter, director of Irish Mortgage Brokers

Written with the interested general public in mind, the book is unique in its treatment of the theme of default from many different angles.

About the editors

Brian Lucey is a Professor of Finance in Trinity College Dublin and a columnist with the Irish Examiner. Constantin Gurdgiev is Adjunct Professor at the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin and an international newspaper columnist. Charles Larkin is research associate in the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin.

"The book is an excellent read It needs to be read by our politicians and higher public servants. For the rest of us, it's an excellent way to get up the learning curve."

John Finn, Irish Examiner, 9 April 2012

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