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| Kevin O’Rourke is a Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, and President of the European Historical Economics Society. He is a co-organiser of the CEPR’s Economic History Initiative, which aims to promote a more ‘presentist’, quantitative and comparative approach to European economic history. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1989, and has taught at Columbia, Harvard, University College Dublin and Sciences Po Paris. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick. He has served as an editor of the European Review of Economic History, as an editorial board member of the Journal of Economic History and World Politics, as a member of the Economic Policy panel, as an Associate Editor of Economics Bulletin, and as a trustee of the Cliometric Society.
Kevin O’Rourke has written extensively on the history of globalization, and his Globalization and History (co-authored with Jeffrey G. Williamson) won the 1999 American Association of Publishers/PSP Award for the best scholarly book in economics. Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium, co-authored with Ronald Findlay, was recently published by Princeton University Press.
Professor O'Rourke's academic work has been mentioned in such international newspapers as The Economist; New York Times; Sunday Times; Publico (Portugal); Der Spiegel; Le Monde; Le Figaro, International Herald Tribune; The New Statesman; Politiken (Denmark); Wall Street Journal; Newsweek; and in the Irish media. Many of the articles are available at http://www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/orourkek/homepage.htm |
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| President, European Historical Economics Society, 2009-2011. |
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| Co-organiser, Centre for Economic Policy Research Economic History Initiative (launched 2004). The CEPR is Europe’s largest and most influential economics research network. For full details of the Economic History Initiative, see http://www.cepr.org/research/Initiatives/EH.htm. |
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| Editor, European Review of Economic History |
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| Member, International Advisory Board, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick |
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| Panel Member, Economic Policy, 2006-2008. |
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| 2003 IRCHSS Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship |
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| Association of American Publishers/PSP Award for best new scholarly book in Economics, (for Globalization and History) |
1999 |
| Cole Prize Winner, 1997-98: awarded annually to author of best article published in the Journal of Economic History (for “The European grain invasion, 1870-1913”) |
1998 |
| Joint winner, International Economic History Congress dissertation competition |
1994 |
| Barrington Prize Lecturer, Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland |
1994 |
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| College Lecturer, Department of Economics |
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University College, Dublin |
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Graduate School of Business, Columbia University |
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Trinity College Dublin |
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Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) |
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| Statutory Lecturer, Department of Economics |
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University College, Dublin |
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Economic History, International Economics.
I work on the economic history of globalization, and on the political economy of globalization. |
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Economic history, theory |
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| International economics, finance, trade and development |
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Unifying the European Experience: Historical Lessons of Pan-European Development |
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Co-ordinator. The proposal was made on behalf of the Economic History Initiative at the CEPR. The proposal was the only successful economics proposal in this round. The grant is for over €1.7 million. The RTN aims to promote comparative and pan-European economic history, as well as ‘presentist’ economic history which speaks to today’s academic and policy debates. |
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TCD PRTLI application to the HEA |
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Co-ordinator. The PRTLI grant was worth €8.8 million. |
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Research Training Network Proposal on Trade, Industrialization and Development |
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| Sibylle Lehmann and Kevin H. O'Rourke, “The structure of protection and growth in the late 19th century”, Review of Economics and Statistics |
| Miguel Almunia, Agustín Bénétrix, Barry Eichengreen, Kevin H. O'Rourke and Gisela Rua, “From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences, and Lessons.”, Economic Policy , 2010 |
Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke, Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2007, 624pp.pp
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| Kevin H. O'Rourke, The worldwide economic impact of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815, Journal of Global History, 1, (1), 2006, p123 - 149 |
Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 1999, 355 pp.pp
Notes: [Hardback ISBN is ISBN 0-262-15049-2
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