Through the first half of the 19th century, there was a widespread notion that political economy was little known and not highly thought of in Ireland, and that the Irish and Roman Catholic character was either non-economic or anti-economic. Such economic ignorance came to be seen as a major cause of Irish backwardness and of social divisions. The educational system was identified as the chief non-coercive means of establishing hegemony over the Irish, with political economy playing a leading role in promoting the economically progressive virtues (seen as English and rational) of...
Through the first half of the 19th century, there was a widespread notion that political economy was little known and not highly thought of in Ireland...
The most virulent and rancorous debate during the Great Irish Famine concerned the role of the state in economic affairs, with the -science- of political economy, the authoritative official discourse, decreeing a policy of laissez-faire. Long regarded as either ignorant or neglectful of its principles, the Irish, from the 1830s, were the focus of systematic economic evangelism.
During the Famine, officialdom and its powerful institutional allies defended the -laws- of political economy then under unrelenting popular attack. According to one authority -the providing food for...
The most virulent and rancorous debate during the Great Irish Famine concerned the role of the state in economic affairs, with the -science- of politi...
