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Ireland And Greece

Wren Lewis, Simon, (2015), “Ireland And Greece”, Social Europe Journal, 20 July

Ireland is often regarded as a success story for Eurozone austerity, compared to the total failure of Greece. That can lead to nonsense like this: instead of whingeing, the Greeks should buckle under and get on with it as Ireland has done. An alternative narrative is to explain the different experience of the two economies by looking at structural factors, as in these two examples.

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