John O’hagan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4514419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John O’hagan |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | O’hagan |
| SIGNATURE | O’HAGAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8852-7346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Victor Ginsburgh (1939–2025)
Interrogating Irish Policies by William Kingston (review)
‘The Subsidised Muse’
'The Subsidised Muse': The Case for State Funding of the Arts1 John O'Hagan (bio) Politicians and taxpayers understandably want to know how their money is being spent and whether to good effect or not. This applies across the whole public sector, including expenditure on the arts. One might argue that the 'output' of the arts sector is very difficult to measure, and this is probably true, but so also is the output of the police service or the edu…
The Irish Department of Finance 1959–99 by Ciarán Casey
Reviewed by: The Irish Department of Finance 1959–99 by Ciarán Casey John O’Hagan (bio) Ciarán Casey, The Irish Department of Finance 1959–99 (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2022), 239 pages. The Department of Finance commissioned this book in 2019, to be published in the centenary year of the State, 2022. The first such history, by Ronan Fanning, had been published in 1978, covering the period 1922 to 1958. It took eight years to pr…
Taking Back Control
Taking Back Control:The Role of the EU1 John O'Hagan (bio) It was noted by the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) that there are some issues whose influence permeates national boundaries and give rise to problems which individual states, or even limited coalitions of states, are no longer able to influence, let alone control (see Habermas, 2012). Habermas was writing shortly after the global financial crisis of the late 2000s. Since the…
Patrick Reel
Patrick Reel: A Life in Paint John O’Hagan1 (bio) I first met Patrick Reel around fifteen years ago. Initially I was drawn to the quaintness of and the atmosphere in the shop, house, studio, and gallery. In time we were delighted to become regular visitors to Ludlow St to meet Patrick and his sister Esther, and we became familiar with his wonderful life of artwork, the subject matter of a current retrospective exhibition of Reel’s work in the Sta…
Top graduate programmes in economics
The first part of the paper provides a novel overview narrative of the historical evolution of PhD programmes in economics from 1880, drawing on multiple sources. The second part is empirical, and, also novel in terms of the data constructed. It attempts to bring the narrative up to date by looking at the cohorts of winners of the main young economist awards in economics in the US and Europe over the last twenty years or so and to chart at which …
Age, mobility and creative output
This paper studies the movement of creative writers in the light of changes in German economic and political structures from the early 18th to the early 20th century. For this, we have constructed from various sources a yearly data set on all the writers in German listed in the Encyclopedia Britannica and born in the 18th and 19th centuries. The key findings are that, first, there was extensive long-term movment, initially to small university tow…
Do state funding, geographic location, and networks matter
Using a uniquely constructed data set, we look at the ecologies of creative careers in film/TV-drama/theatre, using a detailed interview questionnaire case study of eighty-two prominent workers in the Irish film/TV-drama/theatre sectors. Three influences on career progression are given special attention: state patronage, geographic location and networks. There is strong evidence to show that those interviewed consider state patronage as very impo…
Enhancing Participation in the Arts in the EU
Objectives of arts funding agencies often do not map well on to societal benefits
The paper addresses in some detail the possible societal benefits of state expenditure on the arts, as opposed to the intrinsic or personal benefits. Three broad categories of societal benefit are posited, namely identity and social cohesion, experimental/innovative work and economic spill-over effects. The goals/objectives of the key funding agencies in Australia, England, Ireland and New Zealand are then examined, with a view to ascertaining to…
European statistics on cultural participation and their international comparability
This paper will consider a number of issues. Section 1 will introduce the paper, establishing why reliable internationally comparable statistics on cultural participation are needed. Section 2 will address the major and various difficulties that arise in comparing national surveys, both over time and to each other. Section 3 will consider the problems that persist even with cross-national surveys for comparative purposes. Section 5 will conclude …
Output Characteristics and Other Determinants of Theatre Attendance—An Econometric Analysis of German Data
The purpose of this paper is to test the sensitivity of theatre attendance in Germany to a number of unique output characteristics of the performing arts, as well as the usual economic variables of price and income. This is made possible by the availability of an exceptionally rich data set relating to the very large theatre sector in Germany. The econometric results indicate that the output characteristics used do impact significantly on theatre…
Birth Location, Migration, and Clustering of Important Composers
This article examines the 522 most important composers in the last 800 years, as identified by Charles Murray (2003), in terms of their birth location and migration. It also examines detailed patterns of migration and tendencies to cluster in certain cities for those composers born between 1750 and 1899. This information is compiled from the large, Grove Music Online (2009) encyclopedia. There is also some discussion of the biases evident in choo…
Clustering and Migration of Important Visual Artists
An article by John O'Hagan and Elish Kelly in 2005 (see Historical Methods 38:118-25) discussed collecting information on visual artists that would allow a broad historical ranking based on "prominence." O'Hagan and Kelly collected these data to examine prominent artists' birth locations, work locations, and their consequential patterns of labor movement during several long periods. In this article, the authors examine artists' migration for four…
Identifying the Most Important Artists in a Historical Context
The authors collect information on visual artists to allow a broad historical ranking of the most prominent artists. Their purpose is to examine the birth and work locations, and the consequential pattern of labor movement, of prominent artists over a number of long time periods. The article indicates that a relatively simple column-inch approach may suffice for the purpose of identifying the thousand or so most prominent artists, but that much m…
Restricting international trade in the national artistic patrimony
This article examines the rationale for restricting the international artistic patrimony. The meaning of national patrimony is analysed, and rationales for state funding and interventions in the art market are analysed in light of the nonprivate benefits that this category of art produces. Distributional concerns about the international movement of art are considered. The second part of the article provides a taxonomy of restrictions used to prev…
Why Do Companies Sponsor Arts Events? Some Evidence and a Proposed Classification
Export restrictions, tax incentives and the national artistic patrimony
This paper analyses the main forms of government intervention used in the UK to protect the national artistic patrimony. It examines the two most common policy measures used in the art market ‐ export regulation and tax incentives ‐ and reports their use over an eight‐year period from 1990 to 1998. It also reviews the UK's collective obligations to patrimony internationally and specifically as a member of the European Union. This is the first tim…
The State and the Arts
Part 1 Policy rationale - why the State gets involved: non-private benefits information failures and distributional issues. Part 2 Policy implementation - how the State gets involved: regulation taxation direct expenditure. Part 3 Sectorial policy issues - effects of State involvement: art museums performing arts institutions.
Commentary
Access to and participation in the arts
Access to and participation in the arts
The Wexford Opera Festival
Tests for the Severity of Multicolinearity in Regression Analysis
det xoo'xoo 1 ) (N n + 1)/(n-2) has the det xo'xo F-distribution with n 2 and N (n 1) degrees of freedom, assuming normality of the underlying distributions. If the statistic is (almost) zero, det xoo'xoo (almost) equals det xo'xo, and the multicollinearity among the columns of xo is (almost) wholly attributable to the columns of xoo. Each step in the proposed third stage is virtually a replica of the second stage, the only difference being that …
Birth Location, Migration, and Clustering of Important Composers
This article examines the 522 most important composers in the last 800 years, as identified by Charles Murray (2003), in terms of their birth location and migration. It also examines detailed patterns of migration and tendencies to cluster in certain cities for those composers born between 1750 and 1899. This information is compiled from the large, Grove Music Online (2009) encyclopedia. There is also some discussion of the biases evident in choo…
Objectives of arts funding agencies often do not map well on to societal benefits
The paper addresses in some detail the possible societal benefits of state expenditure on the arts, as opposed to the intrinsic or personal benefits. Three broad categories of societal benefit are posited, namely identity and social cohesion, experimental/innovative work and economic spill-over effects. The goals/objectives of the key funding agencies in Australia, England, Ireland and New Zealand are then examined, with a view to ascertaining to…
European statistics on cultural participation and their international comparability
This paper will consider a number of issues. Section 1 will introduce the paper, establishing why reliable internationally comparable statistics on cultural participation are needed. Section 2 will address the major and various difficulties that arise in comparing national surveys, both over time and to each other. Section 3 will consider the problems that persist even with cross-national surveys for comparative purposes. Section 5 will conclude …
Restricting international trade in the national artistic patrimony
This article examines the rationale for restricting the international artistic patrimony. The meaning of national patrimony is analysed, and rationales for state funding and interventions in the art market are analysed in light of the nonprivate benefits that this category of art produces. Distributional concerns about the international movement of art are considered. The second part of the article provides a taxonomy of restrictions used to prev…
Do state funding, geographic location, and networks matter
Using a uniquely constructed data set, we look at the ecologies of creative careers in film/TV-drama/theatre, using a detailed interview questionnaire case study of eighty-two prominent workers in the Irish film/TV-drama/theatre sectors. Three influences on career progression are given special attention: state patronage, geographic location and networks. There is strong evidence to show that those interviewed consider state patronage as very impo…
Clustering and Migration of Important Visual Artists
An article by John O'Hagan and Elish Kelly in 2005 (see Historical Methods 38:118-25) discussed collecting information on visual artists that would allow a broad historical ranking based on "prominence." O'Hagan and Kelly collected these data to examine prominent artists' birth locations, work locations, and their consequential patterns of labor movement during several long periods. In this article, the authors examine artists' migration for four…
Identifying the Most Important Artists in a Historical Context
The authors collect information on visual artists to allow a broad historical ranking of the most prominent artists. Their purpose is to examine the birth and work locations, and the consequential pattern of labor movement, of prominent artists over a number of long time periods. The article indicates that a relatively simple column-inch approach may suffice for the purpose of identifying the thousand or so most prominent artists, but that much m…
Age, mobility and creative output
This paper studies the movement of creative writers in the light of changes in German economic and political structures from the early 18th to the early 20th century. For this, we have constructed from various sources a yearly data set on all the writers in German listed in the Encyclopedia Britannica and born in the 18th and 19th centuries. The key findings are that, first, there was extensive long-term movment, initially to small university tow…
Tests for the Severity of Multicolinearity in Regression Analysis
det xoo'xoo 1 ) (N n + 1)/(n-2) has the det xo'xo F-distribution with n 2 and N (n 1) degrees of freedom, assuming normality of the underlying distributions. If the statistic is (almost) zero, det xoo'xoo (almost) equals det xo'xo, and the multicollinearity among the columns of xo is (almost) wholly attributable to the columns of xoo. Each step in the proposed third stage is virtually a replica of the second stage, the only difference being that …
The Wexford Opera Festival
Access to and participation in the arts
Access to and participation in the arts
The State and the Arts
Part 1 Policy rationale - why the State gets involved: non-private benefits information failures and distributional issues. Part 2 Policy implementation - how the State gets involved: regulation taxation direct expenditure. Part 3 Sectorial policy issues - effects of State involvement: art museums performing arts institutions.
Commentary
Why Do Companies Sponsor Arts Events? Some Evidence and a Proposed Classification
Export restrictions, tax incentives and the national artistic patrimony
This paper analyses the main forms of government intervention used in the UK to protect the national artistic patrimony. It examines the two most common policy measures used in the art market ‐ export regulation and tax incentives ‐ and reports their use over an eight‐year period from 1990 to 1998. It also reviews the UK's collective obligations to patrimony internationally and specifically as a member of the European Union. This is the first tim…
Restricting international trade in the national artistic patrimony
This article examines the rationale for restricting the international artistic patrimony. The meaning of national patrimony is analysed, and rationales for state funding and interventions in the art market are analysed in light of the nonprivate benefits that this category of art produces. Distributional concerns about the international movement of art are considered. The second part of the article provides a taxonomy of restrictions used to prev…
Identifying the Most Important Artists in a Historical Context
The authors collect information on visual artists to allow a broad historical ranking of the most prominent artists. Their purpose is to examine the birth and work locations, and the consequential pattern of labor movement, of prominent artists over a number of long time periods. The article indicates that a relatively simple column-inch approach may suffice for the purpose of identifying the thousand or so most prominent artists, but that much m…
Clustering and Migration of Important Visual Artists
An article by John O'Hagan and Elish Kelly in 2005 (see Historical Methods 38:118-25) discussed collecting information on visual artists that would allow a broad historical ranking based on "prominence." O'Hagan and Kelly collected these data to examine prominent artists' birth locations, work locations, and their consequential patterns of labor movement during several long periods. In this article, the authors examine artists' migration for four…
Output Characteristics and Other Determinants of Theatre Attendance—An Econometric Analysis of German Data
The purpose of this paper is to test the sensitivity of theatre attendance in Germany to a number of unique output characteristics of the performing arts, as well as the usual economic variables of price and income. This is made possible by the availability of an exceptionally rich data set relating to the very large theatre sector in Germany. The econometric results indicate that the output characteristics used do impact significantly on theatre…
Birth Location, Migration, and Clustering of Important Composers
This article examines the 522 most important composers in the last 800 years, as identified by Charles Murray (2003), in terms of their birth location and migration. It also examines detailed patterns of migration and tendencies to cluster in certain cities for those composers born between 1750 and 1899. This information is compiled from the large, Grove Music Online (2009) encyclopedia. There is also some discussion of the biases evident in choo…
European statistics on cultural participation and their international comparability
This paper will consider a number of issues. Section 1 will introduce the paper, establishing why reliable internationally comparable statistics on cultural participation are needed. Section 2 will address the major and various difficulties that arise in comparing national surveys, both over time and to each other. Section 3 will consider the problems that persist even with cross-national surveys for comparative purposes. Section 5 will conclude …
Objectives of arts funding agencies often do not map well on to societal benefits
The paper addresses in some detail the possible societal benefits of state expenditure on the arts, as opposed to the intrinsic or personal benefits. Three broad categories of societal benefit are posited, namely identity and social cohesion, experimental/innovative work and economic spill-over effects. The goals/objectives of the key funding agencies in Australia, England, Ireland and New Zealand are then examined, with a view to ascertaining to…
Enhancing Participation in the Arts in the EU
Do state funding, geographic location, and networks matter
Using a uniquely constructed data set, we look at the ecologies of creative careers in film/TV-drama/theatre, using a detailed interview questionnaire case study of eighty-two prominent workers in the Irish film/TV-drama/theatre sectors. Three influences on career progression are given special attention: state patronage, geographic location and networks. There is strong evidence to show that those interviewed consider state patronage as very impo…
Top graduate programmes in economics
The first part of the paper provides a novel overview narrative of the historical evolution of PhD programmes in economics from 1880, drawing on multiple sources. The second part is empirical, and, also novel in terms of the data constructed. It attempts to bring the narrative up to date by looking at the cohorts of winners of the main young economist awards in economics in the US and Europe over the last twenty years or so and to chart at which …
Age, mobility and creative output
This paper studies the movement of creative writers in the light of changes in German economic and political structures from the early 18th to the early 20th century. For this, we have constructed from various sources a yearly data set on all the writers in German listed in the Encyclopedia Britannica and born in the 18th and 19th centuries. The key findings are that, first, there was extensive long-term movment, initially to small university tow…
Taking Back Control
Taking Back Control:The Role of the EU1 John O'Hagan (bio) It was noted by the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) that there are some issues whose influence permeates national boundaries and give rise to problems which individual states, or even limited coalitions of states, are no longer able to influence, let alone control (see Habermas, 2012). Habermas was writing shortly after the global financial crisis of the late 2000s. Since the…
Patrick Reel
Patrick Reel: A Life in Paint John O’Hagan1 (bio) I first met Patrick Reel around fifteen years ago. Initially I was drawn to the quaintness of and the atmosphere in the shop, house, studio, and gallery. In time we were delighted to become regular visitors to Ludlow St to meet Patrick and his sister Esther, and we became familiar with his wonderful life of artwork, the subject matter of a current retrospective exhibition of Reel’s work in the Sta…
The Irish Department of Finance 1959–99 by Ciarán Casey
Reviewed by: The Irish Department of Finance 1959–99 by Ciarán Casey John O’Hagan (bio) Ciarán Casey, The Irish Department of Finance 1959–99 (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2022), 239 pages. The Department of Finance commissioned this book in 2019, to be published in the centenary year of the State, 2022. The first such history, by Ronan Fanning, had been published in 1978, covering the period 1922 to 1958. It took eight years to pr…
Interrogating Irish Policies by William Kingston (review)
‘The Subsidised Muse’
'The Subsidised Muse': The Case for State Funding of the Arts1 John O'Hagan (bio) Politicians and taxpayers understandably want to know how their money is being spent and whether to good effect or not. This applies across the whole public sector, including expenditure on the arts. One might argue that the 'output' of the arts sector is very difficult to measure, and this is probably true, but so also is the output of the police service or the edu…
Victor Ginsburgh (1939–2025)
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