The strength of the celtic tiger: The case of pharmaceuticals

Eire-Ireland

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages

  White, Tim ^a,b,c  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Xavier's Summer Study Abroad Program   (Ireland)

^c American Conference for Irish Studies ^*

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EID: 60949709172     PISSN: 00132683     EISSN: 15505162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/eir.0.0005     Document Type: Article

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1. Brian Girvin makes a similar argument in "Political Culture, Political Independence and Economic Success in Ireland," Irish Political Studies 12 (1997): 48-77.
2. Kieran Allen, The Celtic Tiger: The Myth of Social Partnership in Ireland (New York, 2000);
3. William Crotty, "Ireland: Economics and the Reinventing of a Nation," Policy Studies Journal 28, no. 4 (2000): 799-814;
4. Denis O'Hearn, Inside the Celtic Tiger: The Irish Economy and the Asian Model (London, 1998);
5. Paul Sweeney, The Celtic Tiger: Ireland's Economic Miracle Explained (Dublin, 1998).
6. Central Statistics Office (CSO), Statistical Yearbook 2007 (Dublin, 2007), 149.
7. Chris van Egeraat and Proinnsias Breathnach, "The Manufacturing Sector," in Brendan Bartley and Rob Kitchin (eds.), Understanding Contemporary Irehnd (London, 2007), 131.
8. CSO, Statistical Yearbook 2007, 25.
9. Sweeney, The Celtic Tiger, 63 and 202.
10. Van Egeraat and Breathnach, "The Manufacturing Sector," 134.
11. Nicola Jo-Anne Smith, Showcasing Globalisation? The Political Economy of the Irish Republic (Manchester, 2005), 19-22.
12. For further analysis of Ireland within the globalization literature, see G. Honor Fagan, "Globalised Ireland, or, Contemporary Transformations of National Identity?" in Colin Coulter and Steve Coleman (eds.), The End of Irish History? Critical Reflections on the Celtic Tiger (Manchester, 2003), 110-21;
13. A.T. Kearney, "Globalization's Last Hurrah?" Poreign Policy 128 (2002):
14. 38-51, Peadar Kirby, The Celtic Tiger in Distress: Growth and Inequality in Ireland (New York, 2002), 189-95;
15. and Michael J. O'Sullivan, Ireland and the Global Question (Syracuse, 2006).
16. These various depictions are provided in Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation (Princeton, NJ, 1995);
17. Stephan Haggard, Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in Newly Industrializing Countries (Ithaca, NY, 1990);
18. Denis O'Hearn, "Globalization, 'New Tigers,' and the End of the Developmental State? The Case of the Celtic Tiger," Politics and Society 28, no. 1 (2000): 67-92;
19. Seán Ó Riain, "The Flexible Developmental State: Globalization, Information Technology, and the 'Celtic Tiger,'" Politics and Society 28, no. 2 (2000): 157-93;
20. and Seán Ó Riain, The Politics of High-Tech Growth: Developmental Network States in the Global Economy (Cambridge, 2004).
21. Critics of the Celtic Tiger, such as Denis O'Hearn in "Macroeconomic Policy in the Celtic Tiger: A Critical Reassessment," in Colin Coulter and Steve Coleman (eds.), The End of Irish History? Critical Reflections on the Celtic Tiger (Manchester: Manchester Univesity Press, 2003), 34, claim that the growth Ireland has experienced is unsustainable because the continual inflow of foreign investment is unsustainable.
22. While most do not recognize or focus on the role of the pharmaceutical sector in Ireland's rapid economic growth, a few scholars have increasingly focused on this important sector. See van Egeraat and Breathnach, "The Manufacturing Sector," 139-44.
23. Evans, Embedded Autonomy, 248-49.
24. Haggard, Pathways from the Periphery.
25. O'Hearn, "Globalization, 'New Tigers,' and the End of the Developmental State?"
26. This conception of midwife is also used by Linda Weiss in The Myth of the Powerless State (Ithaca, NY, 1998).
27. O'Hearn, "Globalization, 'New Tigers,' and the End of the Developmental State?" This conceptualization of the proper role of the state in promoting economic growth is built on Peter Evans and James E. Rauch, "Bureaucracy and Growth: A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of 'Weberian' State Structures on Economic Growth," American Sociological Review 64 (1999): 748-65.
28. Ó Riain, The Politics of High-Tech Growth,
29. and Ó Riain, "The Flexible Developmental State."
30. Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, OECD Economic Surveys 1998-1999: Ireland (OECD, 1999). Others agree that foreign direct investment was a defining factor of the Celtic Tiger phenomenon.
31. See O'Sullivan, Ireland and the Global Question, 66-67,
32. and Smith, Showcasing Globalisation? 66-69.
33. Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, OECD Economic Surveys 1998-1999: Ireland.
34. Ray MacSharry and Padraic A. White, The Making of the Celtic Tiger: The Inside Story of Ireland's Boom Economy (Dublin, 2000), 39.
35. The importance of the EU is highlighted in Smith, Showcasing Globalisation? 70-72.
36. The role of low taxes in attracting foreign investment is cited in a number of sources. See O'Hearn, "Macroeconomic Policy in the Celtic Tiger," 37;
37. and van Egeraat and Breathnach, "The Manufacturing Sector," 141.
38. Frederic S. Mishkin, The Next Great Globalization: How Disadvantaged Nations Can Harness Their Pinancial System to Get Rich (Princeton, NJ, 2006).
39. O'Hearn, "Macroeconomic Policy in the Celtic Tiger," 38,
40. Kate Johnston, Colette Henry, and Simon Gillespie, "Encouraging Research and Development in Ireland's Biotechnology Enterprises," The Irish Journal of Management 27, no. 1 (2006): 207-28.
41. O'Sullivan, Irehnd and the Global Question, 63-66;
42. Allen, The Celtic Tiger, 21.
43. Michael Mays, Nation States: The Cultures of Irish Nationalism (Lanham, MD, 2007), 14;
44. O'Hearn, "Macroeconomic Policy in the Celtic Tiger;"
45. Eoin O'Malley and Colm O'Gorman, "Competitive Advantage in the Irish Indigenous Software Industry and the Role of Inward Foreign Direct Investment," European Planning Studies 9, no. 3 (2001): 303-21;
46. Ó Riain, The Politics of High-Tech Growth; Sweeney, The Celtic Tiger;
47. Eileen M. Trauth, The Culture of an Information Economy: Influences and Impacts in the Republic of Ireland (Boston, 2000).
48. Data derived from http://www.askireland.com/pharma.asp; http://www .idaireland.com/home/index.aspx?id=64;
49. O'Hearn, Inside the Celtic Tiger, 156;
50. Frank Barry, Aoife Hannan, and Eric A. Strobl, "The Real Convergence of the Irish Economy and the Sectoral Distribution of Employment Growth," in Frank Barry (ed.), Understanding Ireland's Economic Performance (New York, 1999), 22.
51. www.askireland.com/pharma.asp.
52. www.united-drug.ie/corporate.asp.
53. www.elan.com/InvestorRelations/company_overview/.
54. Crotty, "Ireland: Economics and the Reinventing of a Nation";
55. Mary O'Sullivan, "Manufacturing and Global Competition," in J. W. O'Hagan (ed.), The Economy of Ireland: Policy and Performance of a Small European Country (New York, 1995), 363-96;
56. David E. Schmitt, "Internationalization and Patterns of Political Change," Policy Studies Journal 28, no. 4 (2000): 784-98.
57. Carmen Kuhling and Kieran Keohane, Cosmopolitan Ireland: Globalisation and. Quality of Life (London, 2007), 11-13;
58. Tony Fahey, Helen Russell, and Christopher T. Whelan (eds.), Best of Times? The Social Impact of the Celtic Tiger (Dublin, 2007);
59. Peadar Kirby, "Globalization, the Celtic Tiger and Social Outcomes: Is Ireland a Model or a Mirage?" Globalization 1, no. 2 (2004): 205-22;
60. Schmitt, "Internationalization and Patterns of Political Change in Ireland."
61. Kieran Allen, The Corporate Takeover of Ireland (Dublin, 2007).
62. See, for example, Eva Paus, Poreign Investment, Development, and Globalization: Can Costa Rica Become Ireland? (New York, 2005).
63. Frank Barry, John Bradley, and Eoin O'Malley, "Indigenous and Foreign Industry: Characteristics and Performance," in Frank Barry (ed.), Understanding Ireland's Economic Growth (New York, 1999), 65.