Facilitating the Future?

US Aid, European Integration and Irish Industrial Viability, 1948-73

Protected Irish Industry and Post-War European Free Trade
Marshall Plan Innovations
- Technical Assistance and the Productivity Drive
US Innovations After US Aid
- Technical Assistance and Irish Industry, 1952-73
Industrial Adaptation Partners? Government, Business and Trade Unions
Educating Trade Unionists
Developing Managers
Remoulding Mainstream Education and Inaugurating Science Policy
Shaping Social Science Research
The Impact of Innovations and the Context of Institutions
Notes
References
Index.

"This book might be a rejoinder to Fosters as it shows that the economic development of the Republic and its prosperity up to the current recession were the product of decades of policy and planning. Murray shows how the stagnation of the Republic in the 1950s and mass emigration led to a radical rethink in the state’s economic policies. Joining the European Economic Community was seen as the best means to ensure economic prosperity. To do that meant ditching inefficient domestic industries, modernising the industrial sector and supporting innovation. To achieve this Ireland accepted US aid under the Marshall Plan which enabled schemes to improve industrial technology and productivity. Murray follows this through showing the long-term impact of these policies and charting the rise in Irish industrial visibility and how all this fitted into the plans to join the EEC."

Books Ireland
September 2009