Peter Ryan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Research on economics, history, and tech @Ryan_Research Formerly: MA Global History (Econ) @UCDdublin BA Econ @nyuniversity

Gulliver's Travels: (Dr. Jonathan Swift Classics Collection)
Jonathan Swift
220/ They meant self-rule as in them as the dominant English Protestant minority in Ireland would rule Ireland vs. being ruled from London. 18th century writer Jonathan Swift, best known for his Gulliver’s Travels, also advocated for English Protestant nationalism. “For Swift was… https://t.co/Ka7mLIPWNS https://t.co/8VkLBr5cPR
Paperback, 2015
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Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order
Eric Helleiner
Other works by Helleiner include States and the Reemergence of Global Finance (Cornell, 1994), The Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order (Cornell, 2014) and more. https://t.co/EDt5TMrcls
Paperback, 2016
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National System of Political Economy
Frederick List
5/ Other terms can be used to describe this school of thought like realist, developmentalist, or nationalist. One of its greatest thinkers was Friedrich List who wrote The National System of Political Economy in 1841. https://t.co/Rqkyg9NcUN https://t.co/780lONAUJA
Paperback, 2014
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
220/ They meant self-rule as in them as the dominant English Protestant minority in Ireland would rule Ireland vs. being ruled from London. 18th century writer Jonathan Swift, best known for his Gulliver’s Travels, also advocated for English Protestant nationalism. “For Swift was… https://t.co/Ka7mLIPWNS https://t.co/8VkLBr5cPR
Paperback, 2003
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Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism
Eoin O'Broin
50/ In his book Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism, current leading Sinn Féin intellectual and TD Eoin Ó Broin said this era’s Sinn Féin was “characterised by social conservatism and a narrowly defined political nationalism.” https://t.co/TqnhEG3oRF https://t.co/IilPRbPJUZ
Paperback, 2008
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Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922-1939
Mary Daly
Mary E. Daly's "Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922–1939" documents these facts of failed protectionism well. Thus the real conclusion of that era is that protectionism was never really done at all. https://t.co/DI8HmTqQFv
Paperback, 2018
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Free Market: The History of an Idea
Jacob Soll
25/ Podcast: The ‘free market’ is a fever dream and Adam Smith wasn’t in it with Jacob Soll and @MkBlyth (Rhodes Center Podcast) > Econ history that rethinks how we Adam Smith https://t.co/rTNw7VnJ4H https://t.co/hWIfKdtJr2
Hardcover, 2022
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In the Shadow of the Glen
J. M. Synge
275/ For example, “Yeats and the ‘Irish National Theatre’ following the opening of J.M. Synge’s In the Shadow of the Glen in 1903…spawned controversy among Catholic nationalists, who regarded it as immoral…[Arthur] Griffith savaged the play in The United Irishmen…Controversy… https://t.co/LNvY752lQp https://t.co/iwNQf6qLva
Paperback, 2022
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Samuel Johnson
Thomas Carlyle
260/ Rather than relying on ancient primary sources, the 19th -20thcentury Celtic scholars, or modern historians, Pilkington considered the matter settled by quoting a few biased critics like Thomas Carlyle or Samuel Johnson who were self-identified with English imperialism. He… https://t.co/5HClgzVOjX https://t.co/yh8zmIpuei
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The History of Japanese Economic Development: Origins of Private Dynamism and Policy Competence
Kenichi Ohno
"But Pete how does a less developed country develop without foreign capital? It's never been done before!" WRONG. Let's take a history lesson using Ohno's "The History of Japanese Economic Development" https://t.co/1EyBpAMjfc
Paperback, 2017
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