Kevin H. O'Rourke is
Professor of Economics, and Director of the Centre for the Economics of
Globalization (as of July 1, 2000). He is also a Council Member of the
European Historical Economics Society, a trustee of the Cliometric Society,
an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Economic History, and
a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. 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,
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 19th century trade, capital
and migration flows, and their economic and political implications; and
post-war Irish economic growth. His current projects are: the
longer-term history of globalization; the
interactions between culture, politics and economics in late 19th
century Denmark and Ireland; and the
Irish growth miracle of the 1990s.
Recent Publications
"Globalization
in historical perspective," in Globalization and Unemployment, ed.
H. Wagner, Springer, forthcoming 2000.
"British
trade policy in the 19th century: a review article," forthcoming
European Journal of Political Economy.
"A
Social Accounting Matrix for Italy, 1911," forthcoming, Rivista di Storia
Economica, 2000 (with Giovanni Federico).
"Tariffs
and growth in the late 19th century," forthcoming, Economic
Journal, April 2000.
"Much
ado about nothing? Italian trade policy in the late 19th century,"
in Globalization Challenge and Economic Response in the Mediterranean
Before 1950, eds. Ô.
Pamuk and J.G. Williamson, Routledge, forthcoming (with Giovanni Federico).
"Were
trade and factor mobility substitutes in history?," in Migration: The
Controversies and the Evidence, ed. Riccardo Faini, Jaime de Melo and
Klaus F. Zimmermann (with William J. Collins and Jeffrey G. Williamson),
Cambridge University Press, 227-262, 1999.
"Economic
integration and convergence: an historical perspective," Journal of
Economic Integration 14, 133-168, 1999.
Globalization
and History: The Evolution of a 19th Century Atlantic Economy,
MIT Press, 1999 (with Jeffrey G. Williamson).
"Monetary
data and proxy GDP estimates: Ireland 1840-1921," Irish Economic and
Social History 25 (1998), 22-51.
"Factor
price convergence in the late nineteenth century," International
Economic Review 37 (1996), 499-530 (with Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey
G. Williamson). Reprinted in Historical Foundations of Globalization
(ed. James Foreman-Peck), Edward Elgar (1998).
"Measuring
protection: a cautionary tale," Journal of Development Economics
53 (1997), 169-183.
"The
European grain invasion, 1870-1913," Journal of Economic History
57(4), 775-801, 1997.
"Around
the European periphery 1870-1913: globalization, schooling and growth,"
European Review of Economic History 1 (1997), 153-190 (with Jeffrey
G. Williamson).
"Migration
as disaster relief: lessons from the Great Irish Famine," European
Review of Economic History 1 (1997), 3-25 (with Cormac Ó Gráda).
"Irish
economic growth, 1945-1988," in Economic Growth in Europe since 1945,
ed. N.F.R. Crafts and Gianni Toniolo, Cambridge
University Press (1996), 388-426 (with Cormac Ó Gráda).
"Education,
globalization and catch-up: Scandinavia in the Swedish mirror," Scandinavian
Economic History Review XLIII (1995), 287-309 (with Jeffrey G. Williamson).
"Open
economy forces and late 19th century Swedish catch-up: a quantitative accounting,"
Scandinavian Economic History Review XLIII (1995), 171-203 (with
Jeffrey G. Williamson).
"Emigration
and living standards in Ireland since the Famine," Journal of Population
Economics 8 (1995), 407-421.
"The
costs of international economic disintegration: Ireland in the 1930's,"
Research in Economic History 15 (1995), 215-259.