Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke is a Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and a Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, where he previously served as a founding Director of the Economic History programme, and as Research Director. He holds honorary visiting or affiliate positions at Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and CAGE in Warwick. Kevin is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Cliometric Society, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Denmark. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1989, and was previously the Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford. He has also taught at Columbia, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Harvard, and NYU Abu Dhabi. In the past he has inter alia served as Senior Editor of Economic Policy; Economics Delegate at Oxford University Press; editor of the European Review of Economic History; Vice President of the Economic History Association, and President of the European Historical Economics Society. He was awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator Grant in 2010.

Kevin’s research lies at the intersection of economic history and international economics. In particular, he has done a lot of work on the history of globalization and deglobalization, and is still working on these themes. Globalization and History (co-authored with Jeffrey G. Williamson) won the 1999 American Association of Publishers/PSP Award for the best scholarly book in economics. Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium, co-authored with Ronald Findlay, was published by Princeton University Press in 2007; The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe (co-edited with Steve Broadberry) was published in 2010; The Spread of Modern Industry to the Periphery since 1870 (co-edited with Jeffrey G. Williamson) was published by Oxford University Press in 2017; and Une brève histoire du Brexit was published by Odile Jacob in 2018. A revised version, A Short History of Brexit, was subsequently published by Penguin in 2019.

Recent publications

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Kevin O'Rourke's website 
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