Doctor Thomas Kenneth Whitaker, the Irish economist and public servant died yesterday at 100. He had been voted the greatest Irishman of the 20th Century and and Greatest Living Irish Person in 2002
Whitaker, while Secretary of the Department of Finance (senior civil servant of the department), in 1956 proposed the so-called "Grey Book" plan (properly the First Programme for Economic Expansion) at a time of deep economic depression. His vision of free trade and the end of protectionism, the shift in focus from agriculture to industry and services and greater connection to the outside world would utterly change Ireland, ending the vestiges of deValera's Gaelic hermit nation.
He later served as a senator and a member of numerous inquiries and public bodies.
More.
Whitaker, while Secretary of the Department of Finance (senior civil servant of the department), in 1956 proposed the so-called "Grey Book" plan (properly the First Programme for Economic Expansion) at a time of deep economic depression. His vision of free trade and the end of protectionism, the shift in focus from agriculture to industry and services and greater connection to the outside world would utterly change Ireland, ending the vestiges of deValera's Gaelic hermit nation.
He later served as a senator and a member of numerous inquiries and public bodies.
More.
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