Kevin O' Rourke
Biographic Data
| ID | 10328246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin O' Rourke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin O' |
| FAMILY NAME | Rourke |
| SIGNATURE | ROURKE K O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Did the Great Irish Famine Matter
This article tests the hypothesis that price shocks in international commodity markets would by themselves have led to a fall in agricultural labor demand in rural Ireland in the absence of the Famine. This hypothesis has been used by revisionist historians to argue that the Famine was not a structural break between two distinct eras in Irish economic history. In refuting the hypothesis, this article joins a more recent cliometric tradition that …
Did the Great Irish Famine Matter
This article tests the hypothesis that price shocks in international commodity markets would by themselves have led to a fall in agricultural labor demand in rural Ireland in the absence of the Famine. This hypothesis has been used by revisionist historians to argue that the Famine was not a structural break between two distinct eras in Irish economic history. In refuting the hypothesis, this article joins a more recent cliometric tradition that …
Did the Great Irish Famine Matter
This article tests the hypothesis that price shocks in international commodity markets would by themselves have led to a fall in agricultural labor demand in rural Ireland in the absence of the Famine. This hypothesis has been used by revisionist historians to argue that the Famine was not a structural break between two distinct eras in Irish economic history. In refuting the hypothesis, this article joins a more recent cliometric tradition that …
Archaeology (1 works) · Commodity (1 works) · Development economics (1 works) · Economic history (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Famine (1 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (1 works) · History (1 works) · Irish (1 works) · Market economy (1 works)