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Protection, Economic War and Structural Change: The 1930s in Ireland

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  • Neary, J Peter
  • O'Gráda, Cormac

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The paper describes the insights which trade theory can provide into economic developments in Ireland during the 1930s. First, a version of Ronald Jones's "specific factors" model is applied to the period after 1932, when a policy which combined industrial tariff protection and controls on capital inflows was imposed by the newly-elected De Valera government. It is shown that such a policy mix was inconsistent if the aim of policy was employment creation. The controls on capital inflows were ineffective in practice employment. This ineffectiveness benefitted, although it decreased welfare. The specific factors model is then developed, along Gruen-Corden lines, to allow for the effects of the government's "protillage" policy on the agricultural sector. In a separate section, we apply the standard partial equilibrium analysis of the gains and losses from tariffs to the so-called 'economic war' between Ireland and Britain (1932-8). The outcome tentatively supports the claim that Ireland 'did not lose' this war.

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  • Neary, J Peter & O'Gráda, Cormac, 1986. "Protection, Economic War and Structural Change: The 1930s in Ireland," CEPR Discussion Papers 117, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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    1. Kevin H. O'Rourke, 2016. "Independent Ireland In Comparative Perspective," Working Papers 201620, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    2. Neary, J. Peter, 2009. "Trade costs and foreign direct investment," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 207-218, March.
    3. Gerlach, Stefan & Lydon, Reamonn & Stuart, Rebecca, 2015. "Unemployment and Inflation in Ireland: 1926-2012," CEPR Discussion Papers 10567, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    4. Cormac Ó Gráda & Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke, 2022. "The Irish economy during the century after partition," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 75(2), pages 336-370, May.
    5. Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke, 2017. "Independent Ireland in Comparative Perspective," Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers _150, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    6. Nathan Foley-Fisher & Eoin McLaughlin, 2013. "Irish Land Bonds: 1891-1938," Edinburgh School of Economics Discussion Paper Series 239, Edinburgh School of Economics, University of Edinburgh.
    7. Cormac Ó Gráda, 2011. "Five Crises," Working Papers 201112, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    8. FitzGerald, John & Kenny, Seán, 2018. "Managing a Century of Debt," Lund Papers in Economic History 171, Lund University, Department of Economic History.

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