Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke is Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. He is a co-ordinator of the CEPR 's Economic History Initiative , and an Editor of the European Review of Economic History . He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research , a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at University College Dublin, a member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick, a Trustee of the European Historical Economics Society , and an Associate Editor of Economics Bulletin . In the past he has served as a trustee of the Cliometric Society and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Economic History . His awards include the 1999 American Association of Publishers/PSP Award for the best scholarly book in Economics (awarded for Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy , MIT Press 1999, co-authored with Jeffrey G. Williamson); and the 1997-98 Cole Prize for the best article published in the Journal of Economic History. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1989, and has been an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, a visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University, and a College and Statutory Lecturer at University College, Dublin.
Professor O'Rourke teaches and carries out research in economic history and international economics. Topics he has worked on to date include: the long run economic effects of the Irish Famine; late 19 th century trade, capital and migration flows, and their economic and political implications; and post-war Irish economic growth. His current projects include: the longer-term history of globalization; the interactions between culture, politics and economics in late 19th century Denmark and Ireland; and the determinants of individual attitudes towards globalization.
Recent publications
Much ado about nothing? Italian trade policy in the late 19th century", in The Mediterranean Response to Globalization before 1950 , eds. S . Pamuk and J.G. Williamson, Routledge (2000), 269-296 (with Giovanni Federico).
"Globalization in historical perspective", in Globalization and Unemployment, ed. H. Wagner, Springer (2000), 39-53.
"Tariffs and growth in the late 19th century", Economic Journal 110 (2000), 456-483.
"A Social Accounting Matrix for Italy, 1911", Rivista di Storia Economica XVI (2000), 3-35 (with Giovanni Federico).
"Living standards and growth", in The Economy of Ireland: Policy and Performance of a European Region, ed. J. O'Hagan, Gill and Macmillan/St Martin's Press (2000), 178-204 (with Cormac Ó Gráda).
"British trade policy in the 19th century: a review article", European Journal of Political Economy, 16 (November 2000), pp. 829-842.
"Irish inflation: appropriate policy responses", Irish Banking Review (Winter 2000), pp. 33-47 (with Rodney Thom).
"What determines attitudes towards protection? Some cross-country evidence", in Susan M. Collins and Dani Rodrik (eds.), Brookings Trade Forum 2001, Brookings Institute Press, pp. 157-206 (with Richard Sinnott).
"When did globalization begin?" European Review of Economic History 6 (2002), pp. 23-50 (with Jeffrey G. Williamson).
"Globalization and inequality: historical trends", Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (2001/2), pp. 39-67. Reprinted in Aussenwirtschaft 57, 1 (2002), pp. 65-101.
"After Columbus: explaining the global trade boom 1500-1800" Journal of Economic History (2002) 62(2), pp. 417-456 (with Jeffrey G. Williamson).
"The Heckscher-Ohlin model between 1400 and 2000: when it explained factor price convergence, when it did not, and why", in R. Findlay, L. Jonung and M. Lundahl (eds.), Bertil Ohlin: A Centennial Celebration 1899-1999 (MIT Press, 2002), pp. 431-461 (with Jeffrey G. Williamson).
"Europe and the causes of globalization, 1790-2000", in H. Kierzkowski (ed.), From Europeanization of the Globe to the Globalization of Europe (Palgrave, 2002), pp. 64-86.
"Long-distance trade: long-distance trade between 1750 and 1914", in J. Mokyr (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History , (Oxford University Press 2003), Volume 3, pp. 365-70.
"Commodity market integration, 1500-2000" in M.D. Bordo, A.M. Taylor and J.G. Williamson (eds.), Globalization in Historical Perspective (University of Chicago Press/NBER 2003) (with Ronald Findlay), pp. 13-62.
"Ireland and the bigger picture", in David Dickson & Cormac Ó Gráda (eds.), Refiguring Ireland (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2003), pp 342-55.
"Once more: When did globalisation begin?" European Review of Economic History 8 (2004), pp. 109-117 (with Jeffrey G. Williamson).
"Migration flows: Political economy of migration and the empirical challenges". Forthcoming, Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics- Europe 2003.
"Economic Globalization" forthcoming in Grahame Thompson (ed.), Encyclopedia of Globalization (Grolier).
"Heckscher-Ohlin", forthcoming in John J. McCusker (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Trade since 1450 (Macmillan).
"Incentives, Technology and the Shift to Year-Round Dairying in Late 19 th Century Denmark" forthcoming, Economic History Review (with Ingrid Henriksen).
Contact Details:
Kevin H. O'Rourke
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Trinity College Dublin 2 Ireland
Email: kevin.orourke@tcd.ie
Homepage: http://www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/orourkek/homepage.htm Tel. 353 1 608 3594 Fax. 353 1 677 2503
