Famine and Finance Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland
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.
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Tyler Beck Goodspeed
Famine and Finance
Tyler Beck Goodspeed
Famine and Finance Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland
Tyler Beck Goodspeed St John’s College University of Oxford Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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For the millions who went hungry
Acknowledgments
The various debts owed for this work far exceed my ability to repay in thanks here. I must first and foremost thank my advisers, Emma Rothschild, Benjamin Friedman, Niall Ferguson, and especially Richard Hornbeck, for their invaluable guidance, patience, and counsel throughout this project. I also thank Cormac Ó Gráda, Joel Mokyr, Nathan Nunn, Peter Solar, Liam Kennedy, John Turner, Kevin O’Rourke, James Fenske, and Sean Barrett for their generous comments and suggestions. Seminar participants at the London School of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Queens University Belfast, University of Southern Denmark, and the Royal Economic Society offered valuable questions and ideas. I thank Aidan Hollis and Arthur Sweetman for generously sharing their data on the Irish Loan Funds and Jenna Pace and Seth Rose for mapping support. Financially, this project would not have been possible without the funding support from the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Institute for Humane Studies, and a Harvard University Clive Fellowship grant. I further salute the team at Palgrave-Macmillan, especially Rachel Sangst
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