Iceland as Icarus

Did Iceland fly too close to the sun? We have rarely had a case when a nation so avidly adopted an economic model that was bound to fail. Iceland became the poster child for this economic crisis. Robert Wade documents it graphically.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wade, Robert Hunter
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: M. E. Sharpe 2009
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Online Access:http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/30662/
http://www.challengemagazine.com/
Description
Summary:Did Iceland fly too close to the sun? We have rarely had a case when a nation so avidly adopted an economic model that was bound to fail. Iceland became the poster child for this economic crisis. Robert Wade documents it graphically.