Kevin O’Rourke is a Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, and a co-organiser of the CEPR’s Economic History Initia

Kevin O’Rourke is a Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, and a co-organiser of the CEPR’s Economic History Initiative. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1989, and has taught at Columbia, Harvard, University College Dublin and Sciences Po Paris. He is President of the European Historical Economics Society, and is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is currently serving as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick, as an editorial board member of World Politics, as a member of the Economic Policy panel, and as an associate editor of Economics Bulletin. He has served in the past as an editor of the European Review of Economic History, as an editorial board member of the Journal of Economic History, and as a trustee of the Cliometric Society. He is a member of both the Global Economic History Network and the ESF-funded GlobalEuroNet network.

Kevin O’Rourke has written extensively on the history of globalization. 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, and has been published in both Spanish and Italian. 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 and has been widely reviewed in the mainstream media. He has also published The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson (MIT Press 2007, co-edited with Timothy J. Hatton and Alan M. Taylor).

Mailing address:

Ireland

Email: kevin dot orourke at tcd dot ie

Telephone: 353-1-8963594

Fax: 353-1-6772503