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An Expenditure Estimate of Irish GDP (At Market Prices) in 1907

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  • Andy Bielenberg

    (University College Cork)

  • Patrick O'Mahony

    (Centre for European Social Research, Cork)

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This article fundamentally challenges the notion that Ireland was a peripheral or underdeveloped economy relative to other European economies at the beginning of this century. Through an empirical investigation of consumer expenditure in Ireland in 1907, a new estimate of Irish GDP has been generated which is compatible with Feinstein's consumer expenditure consumer estimates for the UK. From this is it possible to estimate Ireland's GDP per capita in 1907, and compare Ireland's relative level of per capita income to that of the UK; it is then possible to place Ireland in Madison's league table for a number of advanced capitalist economies. This clearly places Ireland among the more advanced economies in the world. The article concludes that Ireland's improving relative position between 1850 and 1907 was achieved by favourable trade conditions and a growth in trade, a growth in productivity, an a-typical fall in population, and wage convergence with the UK and the USA. The conclusion suggests that free trade and Ireland's close trading relationship with the UK, had brought significant benefits to the Irish economy between 1850 and 1907.

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  • Andy Bielenberg & Patrick O'Mahony, 1995. "An Expenditure Estimate of Irish GDP (At Market Prices) in 1907," Papers WP064, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
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    1. Louis M. Cullen, 1995. "Irish National Income in 1911 and its Context," Papers WP063, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
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