Table of Contents
1. Debt, Crises and Default from a Parliamentary Perspective
Sean Barrett
2. Crises and Contagion: A Survey
Anzhela Knyazeva, Diana Knyazeva and Joseph Stiglitz
3. Debt Restructuring in Ireland: Orderly, Selective and Unavoidable
Constantin Gurdgiev
4. Ireland’s Public Debt – Tell Me a Story We Have Not Heard Yet …
Seamus Coffey
5. A very Irish Default, or When Is a Default Not a Default?
Stephen Kinsella
6. How to Survive on the Titanic: Ireland’s Relationship with Europe
Megan Greene
7. The Russian Crisis and the Crisis of Russia
Constantin Gurdgiev
8. Iceland: The Accidental Hero
Elaine Byrne and Huginn F. Þorsteinsson
9. Irish Public Debt: A View through the Lens of the Argentine Default
Tony Phillips
10. Coring out the Big Apple: New York’s Fiscal Crisis
Sam Roberts
Marc Tomljanovich
12. A Market Participant’s Perspective on Debt and Default
Peter Brown
13. A Mortgage Broker’s Perspective on Debt and Default
Karl Deeter
14. The IMF and the Dilemmas of Sovereign Default
Gary O’Callaghan
15. A Politician’s Perspective on Debt and Default
Peter Mathews
16. A Financial Journalist’s Perspective on Debt and Default
John Walsh
17. A Behavioural Economist’s Perspective on Debt and Default
Michael Dowling
18. A Political Activist and Businessperson’s Perspective on Debt and Default
Declan Ganley