Famine and Finance : Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland

Goodspeed, Tyler Beck

Springer International Publishing AG（2017/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 201 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783319317649
• DDC分類 330.9415081

Full Description

The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to blight during the Great Famine of Ireland.

The author argues that the worst affected districts with a microfinance fund experienced substantially smaller population declines and larger increases in buffer livestock during the famine than those districts without a fund. The potentially limited capacity of credit access to mitigate the effects of a major environmental shock on the poorest, most vulnerable borrowers is also a key topic of discussion.

Contents

1. Revisiting the Great Famine.- 2. Mapping the Famine.- 3. Credit and Adaptation.- 4. Surviving the Famine.- 5. Was Malthus Right?.- The Great Famine in the Short and Long Run.