Hodgkin's Condition_symptoms Ireland learn from the past

Ireland learn from the past

In Juio of 1980 came to mind the "enlightened despotism" of Wilhelm Roscher. After completing my PhD I got my first job in a U.S. consulting firm, Telesis. Early in my first job I found, accompanied by director of Telesis, in the office of Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey. We were alone MLXC I want to talk tonight about the state of the nation and the picture I present is not, unfortunately, too optimistic. The figures that come to us very clearly show us something, and that together we are living well beyond our means. We have been living at a level that is simply not commensurate with the amount of goods and services produced. To compensate for the difference we have been incurring huge debts at a rate that can not continue. A few figures will leave this very clear, we have to rearrange spending and we can only undertake those things we podeamos afford. " CHTMLXe; ny intended to emulate the rich countries to catch up and move forward with new technology. I was the only economist of the team, and advise you along the lines of "business analysis."

Today Haughey is attributed to the huge success of the transformation of the Irish economy from the 1980, based on an early decision to be inserted into the information technology. Althe. In the late seventeenth century Ireland-then-British colony was about to take the lead of the most important industry of the time, the production of woolen cloth, with the help of a handful of Catholic immigrants working in the continent. British producers of cloth, which in turn he was winning the battle to the wool industry in Florence, could not afford to lose their competitive advantage at the hands of the Irish, and successfully asked the English king banning all exports of cloth from Ireland from 1699.

CHTMLXwas committed to ending the export of Irish wool fabrics. His argument was based on the common economic metaphor at the time, the human body. He claimed that England was the head of the body of the Commonwealth, while Ireland was a peripheral member, and of course had to override the interests of the head. This naturally caused a bitter resentment in Ireland, where the dean of Trinity College, John Hely-Hutchinson (1724-1794), wrote a book explaining that trade restrictions imposed on Ireland since 1699 had been reduced to poverty ( The Commercial Restraints of Ireland Considered in a Series of LEtters to a Noble Lord). The book, published anonymously, was sentenced to be burned by the executioner for his seditious doctrines. It was the last book he suffered that fate in England.

in the United States during the nineteenth century Irish immigrant workers fiercely defended the "American industrial system" based on rigorous safeguards that would allow the country to industrialize. Remembered that Ireland was robbed of his industry, and did not want