Famine and Finance

Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-31764-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3846 g

The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to blight during the Great Famine of Ireland.

The author argues that the worst affected districts with a microfinance fund experienced substantially smaller population declines and larger increases in buffer livestock during the famine than those districts without a fund. The potentially limited capacity of credit access to mitigate the effects of a major environmental shock on the poorest, most vulnerable borrowers is also a key topic of discussion.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodspeed, Tyler Beck

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Revisiting the Great Famine.- 2. Mapping the Famine.- 3. Credit and Adaptation.- 4. Surviving the Famine.- 5. Was Malthus Right?.- The Great Famine in the Short and Long Run.

Über Autor(innen)

Tyler Beck Goodspeed is Junior Research Fellow in Economics at St John's College, Oxford University, UK. He was awarded his BA, MA, and PhD from Harvard University, USA, and his MPhil from Cambridge University, UK, where he was a Gates Scholar.