Kevin O'Rourke is Professor
of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, a co-organiser of the CEPR's Economic History
Initative, a Research Fellow of the National
Bureau of Economic Research, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He
received his PhD from Harvard in 1989, and has taught at Columbia University,
UCD, Harvard, and Sciences Po (Paris). He is currently serving as President of
the European Historical Economics Society, and an Editorial Board member of World
Politics. He has served in the past as an editor of the European
Review of Economic History, an Editorial Board member of the Journal of
Economic History, an Economic Policy
Panel member, and a Trustee of the Cliometric
Society. He has recently been awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant.
Kevin O'Rourke has published
extensively on the history of globalization. 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 translated into Italian and Spanish. Power and Plenty:
Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (co-authored
with Ronald Findlay) was published in 2007 by Princeton University Press, to
widespread critical acclaim. Translations are forthcoming in Chinese, Korean
and Turkish. Among his forthcoming publications is The Cambridge
Economic History of Modern Europe (2 volumes, co-edited with Stephen
Broadberry). He contributes regularly to the Irish Economy blog and Vox.
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