Kevin Hjortshøj O’rourke
Biographic Data
| ID | 2906421 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Hjortshøj O’rourke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin Hjortshøj |
| FAMILY NAME | O’rourke |
| SIGNATURE | O’ROURKE K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shocking Contrasts
Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection
What is the role of trade policy in promoting intra-Empire trade? We address the question in the context of interwar India, whose trade policies have been accused of harming British export interests. We quantify the impact of trade policy on the value and composition of Indian imports, using novel disaggregated data on both trade policies and imports for 114 commodity categories coming from 42 countries. We find that, even though Indian protectio…
The Euro
Bored with Brexit? Tired of Trump? You can always distract yourself by worrying about the euro instead. This may not seem obvious right now: GDP (a measure of the economy's total output) in the Eurozone grew at 2.3 per cent in 2017, the same rate as in the United States, and significantly faster than in the UK. But this superficially impressive performance masks a dismal reality, and the underlying structural problems of the Eurozone remain as in…
The Meeting of the Waters
If you visit the National Library in Dublin, you will see stained-glass windows portraying the giants of European literature: Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dante ... and Moore. That would be Thomas Moore, whose ballad, ‘The Meeting of the Waters’, is the subject of this special issue. While you could be charitable and interpret Moore's inclusion as a nod, by the British establishment of the day, to Ireland's ‘national poet’, a modern reader may suspect…
Passions, interests, and Hobbits
‘What need you, being come to sense, but fumble in a greasy till’ I think it's fair to say that W.B. Yeats was not a fan of rational, calculating, economic man. And indeed, homo economicus tends to get a pretty bad press in general: even economists are giving him a hard time nowadays. Behavioural economics has convincingly shown us that human beings are not narrow-mindedly selfish in the way that first-year undergraduate textbooks typically assum…
Independent Ireland in Comparative Perspective
This article surveys independent Ireland's economic policies and performance. It has three main messages. First, the economic history of post-independence Ireland was not particularly unusual. Very often, things that were happening in Ireland were happening elsewhere as well. Second, for a long time, we were hampered by an excessive dependence on a poorly performing UK economy. And third, EC membership in 1973 and the single market programme of t…
Reply to Ljungberg
We are grateful to Jonas Ljungberg for his courteous and informative response to our pair of articles recently published in this Review.1 We will argue that Ljungberg has misunderstood our intention on one central point. Since other readers may share this misunderstanding, we are happy to set the record straight. We also take this opportunity to stress a second central point which characterizes our work in this Review
Independent Ireland in Comparative Perspective
This article surveys independent Ireland's economic policies and performance. It has three main messages. First, the economic history of post-independence Ireland was not particularly unusual. Very often, things that were happening in Ireland were happening elsewhere as well. Second, for a long time, we were hampered by an excessive dependence on a poorly performing UK economy. And third, EC membership in 1973 and the single market programme of t…
Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection
What is the role of trade policy in promoting intra-Empire trade? We address the question in the context of interwar India, whose trade policies have been accused of harming British export interests. We quantify the impact of trade policy on the value and composition of Indian imports, using novel disaggregated data on both trade policies and imports for 114 commodity categories coming from 42 countries. We find that, even though Indian protectio…
Reply to Ljungberg
We are grateful to Jonas Ljungberg for his courteous and informative response to our pair of articles recently published in this Review.1 We will argue that Ljungberg has misunderstood our intention on one central point. Since other readers may share this misunderstanding, we are happy to set the record straight. We also take this opportunity to stress a second central point which characterizes our work in this Review
Passions, interests, and Hobbits
‘What need you, being come to sense, but fumble in a greasy till’ I think it's fair to say that W.B. Yeats was not a fan of rational, calculating, economic man. And indeed, homo economicus tends to get a pretty bad press in general: even economists are giving him a hard time nowadays. Behavioural economics has convincingly shown us that human beings are not narrow-mindedly selfish in the way that first-year undergraduate textbooks typically assum…
Independent Ireland in Comparative Perspective
This article surveys independent Ireland's economic policies and performance. It has three main messages. First, the economic history of post-independence Ireland was not particularly unusual. Very often, things that were happening in Ireland were happening elsewhere as well. Second, for a long time, we were hampered by an excessive dependence on a poorly performing UK economy. And third, EC membership in 1973 and the single market programme of t…
The Euro
Bored with Brexit? Tired of Trump? You can always distract yourself by worrying about the euro instead. This may not seem obvious right now: GDP (a measure of the economy's total output) in the Eurozone grew at 2.3 per cent in 2017, the same rate as in the United States, and significantly faster than in the UK. But this superficially impressive performance masks a dismal reality, and the underlying structural problems of the Eurozone remain as in…
The Meeting of the Waters
If you visit the National Library in Dublin, you will see stained-glass windows portraying the giants of European literature: Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dante ... and Moore. That would be Thomas Moore, whose ballad, ‘The Meeting of the Waters’, is the subject of this special issue. While you could be charitable and interpret Moore's inclusion as a nod, by the British establishment of the day, to Ireland's ‘national poet’, a modern reader may suspect…
Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection
What is the role of trade policy in promoting intra-Empire trade? We address the question in the context of interwar India, whose trade policies have been accused of harming British export interests. We quantify the impact of trade policy on the value and composition of Indian imports, using novel disaggregated data on both trade policies and imports for 114 commodity categories coming from 42 countries. We find that, even though Indian protectio…
Shocking Contrasts
Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Global Financial Crisis and Policies (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works)