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Professor Denis O'Brien FBA

Economics
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1988
Year of death
2023
Subjects
Economics
Sections
Economics and Economic History

Last post

Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Durham

Past appointments

University of Durham Professor of Economics

1972 - 1997

Queen's University Belfast Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer then Reader in Economics

1963 - 1972

Publications

The Classical Economists Revisited 2004

Money, Methodology and the Firm 1994

The Development of Monetary Economics 2007

J R McCulloch. A study in classical economics 1970

The correspondence of Lord Overstone (3 vols) 1971

Thomas Joplin and classical macroeconomics 1993

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