Eoin Mclaughlin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3583274 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Eoin Mclaughlin |
| PRENOMES | Eoin |
| SOBRENOME | Mclaughlin |
| ASSINATURA | MCLAUGHLIN E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Heriot-Watt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0307-3374 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Ireland in a Danish mirror
The relative success of the Danish and failure of the Irish dairy industries before the First World War is often contrasted given their competition for the lucrative British butter market. The traditional narrative implicitly assumes that Ireland failed because it was unsuccessful at adopting the cooperative institution, and that Irish cooperatives were not as efficient as their Danish counterparts, despite having been explicitly modelled on them…
Helping the poor help themselves
In the decade before the Great Famine, Ireland experienced a boom in microfinance institutions (MFIs). Taking a social enterprise perspective, this paper analyses the institutional context for this boom. It finds evidence linking the boom in MFIs to the development, via the introduction of the poor law in 1838, of a nascent welfare state at the end of a very turbulent period in Irish history. Many contemporary writers saw microfinance as a legal …
The incidence and persistence of partnerships in a British industrial city
This paper examines the prevalence of business partnerships in a late-nineteenth-century British city, using individual-level data from post office directories and censuses. Focusing on Glasgow, we present a detailed picture of partnership number and type, demographic characteristics of the entrepreneurs who ran them, and how these businesses persisted over time. We show that partnerships were a key business grouping in the city and demonstrate t…
Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine
How do famines shape the health of survivors? We examine the long-term impact of the Great Irish Famine (1845-52) on human stature, distinguishing between adverse scarring effects and the apparent resilience of survivors due to selection. Using anthropometric data from more than 14500 individuals born before, during, and after this famine, we find that selection effects were most pronounced in areas with the highest mortality rates. Individuals b…
What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature
Challenges of wealth-based sustainability metrics
Irish Economic and Social History , 1974–2023
This article reviews the publication trends in Irish Economic and Social History over its first 50 years
A Microlevel Analysis of Danish Dairy Cooperatives
We contribute to the argument for a “new” business history employing a quantitative approach. We illustrate opportunities for new perspectives from this approach using a novel microlevel longitudinal database comprising 131 variables for 1,419 cooperative creameries in Denmark for the period 1898–1945, which we also document and make available to the scholarly community. We present a number of applications of the data, including investigating reg…
A Firm Level Database of Irish Creameries, 1897–1921
We present a microlevel database of Irish cooperative creameries covering the period 1897–1921. The data were hand collected from the annual reports of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (IAOS) and contain information from 531 creameries and covering 49 variables. We perform some initial analysis of the data, finding considerable heterogeneity in the productivity of creameries as measured by the milk/butter ratio. We focus on differences…
Fringe banking and financialization
Pawnbroking, one of the oldest and most accessible forms of credit, was a common feature of life in pre-famine and famine Ireland. This article studies the role of pawnbroking in the Irish financial system during this important period, applying insights from modern studies on fringe banking. In the period under study, a formal tiered financial system existed; regulated joint-stock banks offered services to industry and the better off, while fring…
Death, demography and the denominator
Financial Inclusion with Hybrid Organizational Forms
The turbulent 1830s saw a sequence of great political and social reforms in the United Kingdom. One such reform was the introduction of a locally funded Poor Law in Ireland. The development of a nascent welfare system in 1838 coincided with a boom in the formation of microfinance institutions in Ireland. The focus of this study is the expansion of a hybrid organizational form, Loan Fund Societies (LFSs), in the ten years prior to the Great Irish …
Competition between organisational forms in Danish and Irish dairying around the turn of the twentieth century
By 1914, Danish butter had captured a sizeable share of the British market, largely at the expense of Irish suppliers. This is usually attributed to a more successful adoption of the cooperative organisational form, where cultural and legal issues put the Irish at a disadvantage. We argue that there were also significant differences in the private sector in the two countries, where large incumbent proprietary creameries in Ireland were in a stron…
Anthropometric History
This research note updates Cormac Ó Gráda's (1996) critical review of the literature on the connection between the stature of the Irish, on the one hand, and their health and living standards, on the other. We find most of the anthropometric data sets used in this literature pertain to Irish emigrants rather than those who stayed behind. We therefore argue prison registers are a more appropriate source of anthropometric information. But results d…
Genuine savings as a test of New Zealand weak sustainability
Living standards and inequality in the industrial revolution
The Circular Economy
Women of an uncertain age
Geary and Stark find that Ireland's post-Famine per capita GDP converged with British levels, and that this convergence was largely due to total factor productivity growth rather than mass emigration. In this article, new long-run measurements of human capital accumulation in Ireland are devised in order to facilitate a better assessment of sources of this productivity growth, including the relative contribution of men and women. This is done by …
Writing the Economic History of Ireland since Independence
Peer reviewed
Counting carbon
This article examines how to account for the welfare effects of carbon dioxide emissions, using the historical experiences of Britain and the USA from the onset of the industrial revolution to the present. While a single country might isolate itself from the detrimental effects of global warming in the short run, in the long all countries are unable to free ride. Thus, we support the use of a single global price for carbon dioxide emissions. The …
Profligacy in the encouragement of thrift’
This paper studies institutional changes in Irish savings banks and their functionality from 1817 to 1914. These changes saw market incumbents, trustee savings banks, suffering from a loss of confidence and displaced by a functionally equivalent but institutionally distinct competitor, the Post Office Savings Bank. The paper finds that, despite significant institutional change, savings banks of all types were consistently loss-making. This sugges…
Raiffeisenism abroad
Why did imitations of Raiffeisen's rural cooperative savings and loans associations work well in some European countries, but fail in others? This article considers the example of Raiffeisenism in Ireland and in the Netherlands. Raiffeisen banks arrived in both places at the same time, but had drastically different fates. In Ireland they were almost wiped out by the early 1920s, while in the Netherlands they proved to be a long-lasting institutio…
A Note on Mutual Savings and Loan Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Mutual savings and loan societies played an important role in social and economic life in nineteenth-century Ireland yet, to date, they have been overlooked by economic historians of the island. This article addresses this lacuna by providing an overview of the history of Friendly Society Loan Funds (FSLFs) and Building Societies. It finds that there were a variety of savings strategies in urban Ireland and concludes that the economic function of…
Thesis Abstract
Civilising rural Ireland
Civilising Rural Ireland maps the influence of the cooperative movement on political, social, and economic developments in Ireland (and the Free State) from the 1890 s to the 1930 s. Principally Ci
The Circular Economy
Women of an uncertain age
Geary and Stark find that Ireland's post-Famine per capita GDP converged with British levels, and that this convergence was largely due to total factor productivity growth rather than mass emigration. In this article, new long-run measurements of human capital accumulation in Ireland are devised in order to facilitate a better assessment of sources of this productivity growth, including the relative contribution of men and women. This is done by …
Raiffeisenism abroad
Why did imitations of Raiffeisen's rural cooperative savings and loans associations work well in some European countries, but fail in others? This article considers the example of Raiffeisenism in Ireland and in the Netherlands. Raiffeisen banks arrived in both places at the same time, but had drastically different fates. In Ireland they were almost wiped out by the early 1920s, while in the Netherlands they proved to be a long-lasting institutio…
Profligacy in the encouragement of thrift’
This paper studies institutional changes in Irish savings banks and their functionality from 1817 to 1914. These changes saw market incumbents, trustee savings banks, suffering from a loss of confidence and displaced by a functionally equivalent but institutionally distinct competitor, the Post Office Savings Bank. The paper finds that, despite significant institutional change, savings banks of all types were consistently loss-making. This sugges…
Financial Inclusion with Hybrid Organizational Forms
The turbulent 1830s saw a sequence of great political and social reforms in the United Kingdom. One such reform was the introduction of a locally funded Poor Law in Ireland. The development of a nascent welfare system in 1838 coincided with a boom in the formation of microfinance institutions in Ireland. The focus of this study is the expansion of a hybrid organizational form, Loan Fund Societies (LFSs), in the ten years prior to the Great Irish …
Competition between organisational forms in Danish and Irish dairying around the turn of the twentieth century
By 1914, Danish butter had captured a sizeable share of the British market, largely at the expense of Irish suppliers. This is usually attributed to a more successful adoption of the cooperative organisational form, where cultural and legal issues put the Irish at a disadvantage. We argue that there were also significant differences in the private sector in the two countries, where large incumbent proprietary creameries in Ireland were in a stron…
Writing the Economic History of Ireland since Independence
Peer reviewed
A Note on Mutual Savings and Loan Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Mutual savings and loan societies played an important role in social and economic life in nineteenth-century Ireland yet, to date, they have been overlooked by economic historians of the island. This article addresses this lacuna by providing an overview of the history of Friendly Society Loan Funds (FSLFs) and Building Societies. It finds that there were a variety of savings strategies in urban Ireland and concludes that the economic function of…
A Firm Level Database of Irish Creameries, 1897–1921
We present a microlevel database of Irish cooperative creameries covering the period 1897–1921. The data were hand collected from the annual reports of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (IAOS) and contain information from 531 creameries and covering 49 variables. We perform some initial analysis of the data, finding considerable heterogeneity in the productivity of creameries as measured by the milk/butter ratio. We focus on differences…
Helping the poor help themselves
In the decade before the Great Famine, Ireland experienced a boom in microfinance institutions (MFIs). Taking a social enterprise perspective, this paper analyses the institutional context for this boom. It finds evidence linking the boom in MFIs to the development, via the introduction of the poor law in 1838, of a nascent welfare state at the end of a very turbulent period in Irish history. Many contemporary writers saw microfinance as a legal …
The incidence and persistence of partnerships in a British industrial city
This paper examines the prevalence of business partnerships in a late-nineteenth-century British city, using individual-level data from post office directories and censuses. Focusing on Glasgow, we present a detailed picture of partnership number and type, demographic characteristics of the entrepreneurs who ran them, and how these businesses persisted over time. We show that partnerships were a key business grouping in the city and demonstrate t…
Challenges of wealth-based sustainability metrics
Fringe banking and financialization
Pawnbroking, one of the oldest and most accessible forms of credit, was a common feature of life in pre-famine and famine Ireland. This article studies the role of pawnbroking in the Irish financial system during this important period, applying insights from modern studies on fringe banking. In the period under study, a formal tiered financial system existed; regulated joint-stock banks offered services to industry and the better off, while fring…
Anthropometric History
This research note updates Cormac Ó Gráda's (1996) critical review of the literature on the connection between the stature of the Irish, on the one hand, and their health and living standards, on the other. We find most of the anthropometric data sets used in this literature pertain to Irish emigrants rather than those who stayed behind. We therefore argue prison registers are a more appropriate source of anthropometric information. But results d…
Thesis Abstract
A Note on Mutual Savings and Loan Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Mutual savings and loan societies played an important role in social and economic life in nineteenth-century Ireland yet, to date, they have been overlooked by economic historians of the island. This article addresses this lacuna by providing an overview of the history of Friendly Society Loan Funds (FSLFs) and Building Societies. It finds that there were a variety of savings strategies in urban Ireland and concludes that the economic function of…
Counting carbon
This article examines how to account for the welfare effects of carbon dioxide emissions, using the historical experiences of Britain and the USA from the onset of the industrial revolution to the present. While a single country might isolate itself from the detrimental effects of global warming in the short run, in the long all countries are unable to free ride. Thus, we support the use of a single global price for carbon dioxide emissions. The …
Profligacy in the encouragement of thrift’
This paper studies institutional changes in Irish savings banks and their functionality from 1817 to 1914. These changes saw market incumbents, trustee savings banks, suffering from a loss of confidence and displaced by a functionally equivalent but institutionally distinct competitor, the Post Office Savings Bank. The paper finds that, despite significant institutional change, savings banks of all types were consistently loss-making. This sugges…
Raiffeisenism abroad
Why did imitations of Raiffeisen's rural cooperative savings and loans associations work well in some European countries, but fail in others? This article considers the example of Raiffeisenism in Ireland and in the Netherlands. Raiffeisen banks arrived in both places at the same time, but had drastically different fates. In Ireland they were almost wiped out by the early 1920s, while in the Netherlands they proved to be a long-lasting institutio…
Writing the Economic History of Ireland since Independence
Peer reviewed
Women of an uncertain age
Geary and Stark find that Ireland's post-Famine per capita GDP converged with British levels, and that this convergence was largely due to total factor productivity growth rather than mass emigration. In this article, new long-run measurements of human capital accumulation in Ireland are devised in order to facilitate a better assessment of sources of this productivity growth, including the relative contribution of men and women. This is done by …
The Circular Economy
Living standards and inequality in the industrial revolution
Genuine savings as a test of New Zealand weak sustainability
Death, demography and the denominator
Financial Inclusion with Hybrid Organizational Forms
The turbulent 1830s saw a sequence of great political and social reforms in the United Kingdom. One such reform was the introduction of a locally funded Poor Law in Ireland. The development of a nascent welfare system in 1838 coincided with a boom in the formation of microfinance institutions in Ireland. The focus of this study is the expansion of a hybrid organizational form, Loan Fund Societies (LFSs), in the ten years prior to the Great Irish …
Competition between organisational forms in Danish and Irish dairying around the turn of the twentieth century
By 1914, Danish butter had captured a sizeable share of the British market, largely at the expense of Irish suppliers. This is usually attributed to a more successful adoption of the cooperative organisational form, where cultural and legal issues put the Irish at a disadvantage. We argue that there were also significant differences in the private sector in the two countries, where large incumbent proprietary creameries in Ireland were in a stron…
Anthropometric History
This research note updates Cormac Ó Gráda's (1996) critical review of the literature on the connection between the stature of the Irish, on the one hand, and their health and living standards, on the other. We find most of the anthropometric data sets used in this literature pertain to Irish emigrants rather than those who stayed behind. We therefore argue prison registers are a more appropriate source of anthropometric information. But results d…
Fringe banking and financialization
Pawnbroking, one of the oldest and most accessible forms of credit, was a common feature of life in pre-famine and famine Ireland. This article studies the role of pawnbroking in the Irish financial system during this important period, applying insights from modern studies on fringe banking. In the period under study, a formal tiered financial system existed; regulated joint-stock banks offered services to industry and the better off, while fring…
A Microlevel Analysis of Danish Dairy Cooperatives
We contribute to the argument for a “new” business history employing a quantitative approach. We illustrate opportunities for new perspectives from this approach using a novel microlevel longitudinal database comprising 131 variables for 1,419 cooperative creameries in Denmark for the period 1898–1945, which we also document and make available to the scholarly community. We present a number of applications of the data, including investigating reg…
A Firm Level Database of Irish Creameries, 1897–1921
We present a microlevel database of Irish cooperative creameries covering the period 1897–1921. The data were hand collected from the annual reports of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society (IAOS) and contain information from 531 creameries and covering 49 variables. We perform some initial analysis of the data, finding considerable heterogeneity in the productivity of creameries as measured by the milk/butter ratio. We focus on differences…
What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature
Civilising rural Ireland
Civilising Rural Ireland maps the influence of the cooperative movement on political, social, and economic developments in Ireland (and the Free State) from the 1890 s to the 1930 s. Principally Ci
Challenges of wealth-based sustainability metrics
Irish Economic and Social History , 1974–2023
This article reviews the publication trends in Irish Economic and Social History over its first 50 years
The incidence and persistence of partnerships in a British industrial city
This paper examines the prevalence of business partnerships in a late-nineteenth-century British city, using individual-level data from post office directories and censuses. Focusing on Glasgow, we present a detailed picture of partnership number and type, demographic characteristics of the entrepreneurs who ran them, and how these businesses persisted over time. We show that partnerships were a key business grouping in the city and demonstrate t…
Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine
How do famines shape the health of survivors? We examine the long-term impact of the Great Irish Famine (1845-52) on human stature, distinguishing between adverse scarring effects and the apparent resilience of survivors due to selection. Using anthropometric data from more than 14500 individuals born before, during, and after this famine, we find that selection effects were most pronounced in areas with the highest mortality rates. Individuals b…
Ireland in a Danish mirror
The relative success of the Danish and failure of the Irish dairy industries before the First World War is often contrasted given their competition for the lucrative British butter market. The traditional narrative implicitly assumes that Ireland failed because it was unsuccessful at adopting the cooperative institution, and that Irish cooperatives were not as efficient as their Danish counterparts, despite having been explicitly modelled on them…
Helping the poor help themselves
In the decade before the Great Famine, Ireland experienced a boom in microfinance institutions (MFIs). Taking a social enterprise perspective, this paper analyses the institutional context for this boom. It finds evidence linking the boom in MFIs to the development, via the introduction of the poor law in 1838, of a nascent welfare state at the end of a very turbulent period in Irish history. Many contemporary writers saw microfinance as a legal …
Economics (17 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Irish (11 obras) · Business (8 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Economic growth (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Irish and British Studies (7 obras) · Economic history (6 obras) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (6 obras)