Famine and Finance: Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland

ISBN-13: 9783319317649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 201 str.

Tyler Beck Goodspeed

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.

Blurb

parts of chapters 2 and 3, and 4 have also been published in companion articles in the Journal of Development Economics and the World Bank Economic Review.