Professor Kevin O'Rourke FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2013
- Subjects
- Economics
- Sections
- Economics and Economic History
Summary
Kevin O'Rourke is a Directeur de Recherche at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and a Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, Paris. He was previously the Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford and the Research Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1989, and has taught at Columbia, Harvard, University College Dublin, Sciences Po Paris and Trinity College Dublin. He has served as an editor of the European Review of Economic History, as an editorial board member of the Journal of Economic History, Economic History Review and World Politics, as Vice President of the Economic History Association, as a Trustee of the Cliometric Society, and as President of the European Historical Economics Society. Kevin's research lies at the intersection of economic history and international economics, particularly international trade. He has written extensively on the history of globalisation.
Current post
Centre national de la recherche scientifique Directeur de Recherche
Sciences Po Professor of Economics
Past appointments
University of Oxford Chichele Professor of Economic History
Centre for Economic Policy Research Research Director
Publications
Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy
Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson - Published in 1999 by MIT Press
Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke - Published in 2007 by Princeton University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Colin Mayer FBA
Financial economics; corporate finance, corporate governance, regulation, taxation, and international comparisons of financial systems; the role of the corporation in contemporary society
Professor Bruce Campbell FBA
The economic history of late-medieval Britain and Ireland, with particular reference to human-environment interactions during the 14th century and trends in agricultural output and productivity from the 13th to 19th centuries
Professor Ricardo Reis FBA
Macroeconomics and the study of fluctuations in inflation, financial markets and economic activity; the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy.
