Kevin O'Rourke

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Kevin O'Rourke
MRIA FBA
Born (1963-03-25) 25 March 1963 (age 61)
NationalityIrish
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisAgricultural Change and Rural Depopulation: Ireland 1845–76 (1989)
Academic work
DisciplineEconomics
Institutions

Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke,

Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
.

Early life and education

O'Rourke was born on 25 March 1963 in Bern, Switzerland.[1] His father, Andrew O'Rourke, was a senior Irish diplomat who had served as ambassador to the UK and France among others.[2]

From 1980 to 1984, he studied economics and maths at

postgraduate studies in economics.[3] He was awarded a Master of Arts (AM) degree in June 1986 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in June 1989.[5]

His

dissertation was titled "Agricultural Change and Rural Depopulation: Ireland 1845–76".[5] Using computable general equilibrium techniques, and detailed statistics on the Irish economy collected by the UK administration, he challenged the hypothesis that Ireland's Great Famine was merely an inevitable acceleration of existing trends. His work showed that rural depopulation was not linked to relative price changes for agricultural goods,[6] rather that it was driven by a (sudden, Famine-induced) change in the structure of the agricultural industry, in particular the use of potato as an input,[7] as well as greater opportunities for Irish labourers abroad, in particular in the US, due to the again-sudden existence of emigrant networks and information flows back to Ireland.[8]

Academic career

From 1989 to 1992, O'Rourke was an assistant professor in the

Jeffrey Williamson, his former PhD advisor. Their book 'Globalization and History' won the Economics category of the APA 1999 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition.[9][10]

In 2000, he moved to

Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).[5][11] During his time at Trinity, he expanded his research on international trade, culminating in 'Power & Plenty', a history of the world economy in the second millennium.[12] Later in the decade, as the Great Recession struck, O'Rourke became interested in the parallels between it and the Great Depression.[13] Posts at popular economics blog VoxEU by O'Rourke and Barry Eichengreen on the topic remain the most popular articles ever published on the site.[14]

From 2009 to 2011, O'Rourke was the President of the

Journal of Economic History, World Politics, and Oxford Economic Papers.[16]

In 2011, O'Rourke joined the

University Academic Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[4] In January 2014, he additionally became research director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a European charity.[18] In 2019, he left Oxford and moved to the United Arab Emirates where he joined New York University Abu Dhabi as Professor of Economics.[19]

Honours

In 2009, O'Rourke was elected

Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), an all-Ireland learned society.[20] In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[21][22]

Selected works

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4
    . Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  2. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4
    . Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Kevin H. O'Rourke" (PDF). Department of Economics. Trinity College Dublin. 2010. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d "Professor Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke". People. All Souls Oxford, Oxford. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  5. ^ a b c d e f "CV" (PDF). All Souls College, Oxford. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  6. ^ O'Rourke, K. (1991). Did the great Irish famine matter?. The Journal of Economic History, 51(1), 1-22.
  7. ^ O'Rourke, K. (1994). The economic impact of the famine in the short and long run. The American Economic Review, 84(2), 309-313.
  8. ^ Boyer, G. R., Hatton, T. J., & O’Rourke, K. (1994). The Impact of Emigration on Real Wages in Ireland. Migration and the International Labor Market, 1850-1939, 221.
  9. ^ O'Rourke, K. H., & Williamson, J. G. (1999). Globalization and history: the evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy. MIT Press.
  10. ^ O’Rourke, K. H., & Williamson, J. G. (2002). When did globalisation begin?. European Review of Economic History, 6(1), 23-50.
  11. ^ "Kevin O'Rourke". Staff. Trinity College, Dublin. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  12. ^ Findlay, R., & O'Rourke, K. H. (2009). Power and plenty: trade, war, and the world economy in the second millennium (Vol. 30). Princeton University Press.
  13. ^ Almunia, M., Benetrix, A., Eichengreen, B., O’Rourke, K. H., & Rua, G. (2010). From great depression to great credit crisis: similarities, differences and lessons. Economic policy, 25(62), 219-265.
  14. ^ "What do the new data tell us?". VoxEU. 8 March 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  15. ^ "History of the Society". European Historical Economics Society.
  16. ^ "Kevin O'Rourke". VOX CEPR Policy Portal.
  17. ^ "Professor Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke". Faculty of History. University of Oxford. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  18. ^ "Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke appointed CEPR Research Director". Centre for Economic Policy Research. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  19. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4
    . Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  20. ^ "O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj". Membership. Royal Irish Academy. Archived from the original on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  21. ^ "O'ROURKE, Professor Kevin". British Academy Fellows. British Academy. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  22. ^ "Elections to the Fellowship 2013". British Academy. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  23. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 18 February 2019.
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