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    • Ireland's great depression 

      Ahearne, Alan; Kydland, Finn; Wynne, Mark A. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2006)
      We argue that Ireland experienced a great depression in the 1980s comparable in severity to the better known and more studied depression episodes of the interwar period. Using the business cycle accounting framework of ...
    • Our foreign commerce and free trade policy 

      Pim, Joseph T. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1881)
      In February, 1878,1 read a paper before this Society in defence of our national policy of free trade, which was at that time assailed with some vehemence as the cause of the then prevailing mercantile depression. Since ...
    • The periodicity of commercial crises, and its physical explanation 

      Jevons, W. Stanley (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1879)
      The depression of trade, which has now lasted for some four or five years, with gradually increasing intensity, has naturally attracted considerable attention. All kinds of reasons have been offered to explain its origin?wars, ...