Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Acronyms; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 An Irish Depression; 1 What Happened to Ireland?; 1.1 The Credit Boom; 1.2 The Property and Construction Boom; 1.3 Fiscal Policy; 1.4 Competitiveness; 2 International Context and EMU; 3 The Banking and Wright Reports; 4 Theoretical and Ideological Explanations; 5 The History of Asset Bubbles and Financial Crises; 6 Behavioural Explanations; 7 Political and Institutional Explanations; 7.1 Banking and Bank Regulation; 7.2 Politics and Fiscal Policy; 8 Prediction

9 ConclusionChapter 3 International Organisations; 1 Introduction; 2 Competitiveness; 3 Property and Construction; 4 The Financial Sector; 5 Fiscal Policy; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 4 Domestic Organisations; 1 Introduction; 2 Property and Construction; 3 Fiscal Policy; 4 Competitiveness; 5 The Financial Sector; 6 Conclusion; Chapter 5 Academia; 1 Introduction; 2 Institutional Context; 3 Origins and Interpretations of the Celtic Tiger; 4 Competitiveness and Fiscal Policy; 5 Property and Construction; 6 Finance; 7 Predictions; 8 Conclusion; Chapter 6 The Newspapers

1 Introduction2 The Propaganda Model and the Mercille Application; 3 Experts; 4 Property and Construction; 4.1 The Irish Times; 4.2 The Irish Independent; 4.3 David McWilliams; 4.4 'The Ireland That We Dreamed of'; 4.5 The Economist; 4.6 Nominal Price Falls, Advice to Individuals, and Internal Expertise; 5 The Financial Sector; 6 Competitiveness and Inflation; 7 Fiscal Policy; 8 Conclusion; Chapter 7 Politics; 1 Introduction; 2 Irish Politics in the Twenty-First Century; 3 Fianna Fáil and the PDs; 4 Inflation and Fiscal Policy; 5 Property and Construction

6 Intergenerational Aspects and the Kenny Report7 The Financial Sector; 8 Conclusion; Chapter 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index