Table of Contents

List of Acronyms

About the Contributors

Introduction

Setting the Scene

1. Debt, Crises and Default from a Parliamentary Perspective

Sean Barrett

2. Crises and Contagion: A Survey

Anzhela Knyazeva, Diana Knyazeva and Joseph Stiglitz

Ireland

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

Country Studies

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

11. When Cities Default …

Marc Tomljanovich

Perspectives

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

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