The University of Dublin

Trinity College

Department of Economics

Dermot McAleese

Whately Professor of Political Economy

B Comm (NUI 1962)

M Econ Sc (NUI 1964)

M A (The Johns Hopkins University 1968)

Ph D (The Johns Hopkins University 1971)

email: dermot.mcaleese@tcd.ie

Biographical Summary
Whately Professor of Political Economy, Trinity College Dublin 1979-
Dean, Faculty of Business Economic and Social Studies July 1999 -
Chairperson, the Commission on Pensions in the Public Sector 1996-

Joined staff at Trinity in 1972. Previous employment: University of Ghana (1964-66) and The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin (1969-71). Visiting Professor at the University of Texas (1984), and at the World Bank, Washington DC (1987).

President of the Irish Economic Association (1988-90):Director, Central Bank of Ireland (1979-96); Chairman Economic and Social Reseach Institute 1988-91; President, The Statistical and Social Inquiry of Ireland 1995-98


Teaching
Courses taught: 2000-2001
course outline and reading list 2000-2001
lecture notes and problems
sample questions
scholarship exam questions 1999
Visiting faculty to Graduate School of International Business, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris, and Institute of Management, Cochin; and Associate Fellow, Irish Management Institute.


Research Interests

Irish economic policy, Business and economics, European integration





ECONOMICS FOR BUSINESS



PRENTICE HALL 1997 647 pp

"External Trade Policy" in Ali El-Agraa (ed) The European Union: Economics and Policies London Financial Times Prentice Hall 2000pp 498-526 (with Marius Brulhart)

"The Celtic Tiger: Origins and Prospects" Policy Options Politiques July August 2000

"Institutional Support for Exporting: Issues and Evidence" in A MacBean (ed) Trade and Transition: Trade Promotion in Transitional Economies London Frank Cass 2000 pp 18-28 (with Mary O'Donnell)

"Twenty-five Years 'A Growing" in Rory O'Donnell (ed) Europe: The Irish Experience Dublin Institute of European Affairs 2000 pp 79-110

"Discussion" of J Pelkmans and P Brenton "Bilateral Trade Agreements with theEU: Driving Forces and Effects" in O Memovedic et al (eds) Multilateralism and Regionalism in the Post-Uruguay Round Era Kluwer Academic Publishers Dordrecht 1999 pp 121-125

"Economic Policy and Performance: The Irish Experience" Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland1997/98 Vol XXVII Part v pp 3-18

"Industrial adjustment, foreign investment and intra-industry trade" in M.Brulhart and R. Hine Intra-industry Trade and Adjustment: the European Experience Macmillan London 1999 (with M Brulhart and M O'Donnell)

"Europe and the Wider World" in K A Kennedy From Famine to Feast: Economic and Social Change in Ireland 1847-1997 Dublin Institute of Public Administration 1998 pp 160-174

Selected list of publications

Last updated 09/2000

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