The best academic paper I’ve read on Ireland and the economic crisis was “this one”:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1642791 by Sebastian Dellepiane Avellaneda and Niamh Hardiman. I’m happy to say that Niamh has agreed to do some guest-blogging for us and Crooked Timber over the next several days on the Irish crisis as it continues to unfold, and its implications for the EU. Niamh is a “senior lecturer”:http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/politicsintrelations/drniamhhardiman/ at University College Dublin’s School of Politics and International Relations. She has written extensively on political economy and public policy in Ireland and the EU. We’re grateful and lucky to have her. Her first post will be up shortly.
