Bestseller "Back from the Brink" (2009) published by Transworld publishers
In a book you’ll read from start to finish, “Back from the Brink” takes you through what really happened to Ireland’s economy – not the tabloid version but in full fascinating Technicolor. The Curse of Bull McCabe, Yellow Brick Road Syndrome, Electile Dysfunction and all the other diseases that laid us low are explained in Marc Coleman’s second critically acclaimed book shows that the Celtic Tiger is not dead but sleeping.
Proving that the glass is still two-thirds full and that the gains of the decade 1994
and 2004 will remain intact he explains why the half decade that followed was lost, and how to get it back. World central banks, credit rating agencies and US governments all stacked the dice against the world economy and Ireland’s staggering growth performance in the 1990s and 2000s set it up for a heavier fall than its peers. But as our population continues to grow, defying a recession that is nearly over, “Back from the Brink” shows how increased competition, public sector reform and an overhaul of our culture and political system can return us to prosperity by 2016, the 100th anniversary of the 1916 rising. But don’t take Marc’s word for it. Here are just some of the reviews of “Back from the Brink”.
“First class analysis and full of original thinking on the way forward. A ‘must read’.
EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy
“Against the odds, Coleman stayed faithful to Ireland’s future when other commentators gave up on it. Right on time, he has now written an outstanding book that restores Ireland’s self-belief.”
Jody Corcoran Sunday Independent
“Probing and pungent..Marc Coleman applies a capacious mind to pondering the condition of Ireland today. He not only etches sharply what has gone wrong, but even more importantly looks beyond the immediate crisis to signpost a route to national recovery”
J. J. Lee, Glucksman Professor of Irish Studies, New York University
"Marc Coleman's latest book is an excellent outlier in the sea of commentaries focusing on trivialities. Coleman gets the big picture of Ireland's real economy: outstandingly accurately…Let's hope this analytical outlier will be an influential one."
Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev, Economist Trinity College Dublin
Bestseller "The Best Is Yet To Come" (2007) published by Blackhall
Knowing a recession was coming, in November 2007 Marc explained why it wouldn't derail a startling and more long-term journey that Ireland is undergoing. Two years after its publication the book's central prediction - that Ireland's population will increase to an all island level of 8 million by 2050 - is already coming true: Even a year into the recession, the Republic's population is already at 4.5 million - up 300,000 on the 4.2 million recorded by the census of 2006 - and headed for 5.0 million by 2020. That gives an all island population of 7 million for the first time since the famine and puts the nation in easy distance of becoming bigger than Austria or Sweden by 2050. Here is what leading figures said about the book:
"A terrific read",
Prof. Joe Lee
‘A timely, provocative and necessary analysis of the Irish condition’,
Peter Sutherland, chairman BP
‘This controversial book should be read by anyone with an interest in the Irish economy’s future’,
Paul Tansey Economics Editor Irish Times
“It’s tone is reasoned and calm, but never dull, its propositions mercifully non-ideological, and its politics non-partisan. Policy debate and political discourse in Ireland could do with more input of this kind”,
Dan O'Brien, Economist Intelligence Unit
‘A lively and perceptive assessment of factors affecting our future as an economy and a people’,
TK Whitaker
Marc and Israeli immigration Minister Yitzhak Herzog – whose father was Irish - discuss Ireland and Israel’s similar destinities (MP3)
View photos of the book launch 
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