Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke is a Director of Research at the CNRS and Professor of Economics at Sciences Po Paris, but is best known around Oxford as the previous Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College. He is currently an Associate Member of the Economics Department and an Associate Faculty Member of the History Faculty. He is also 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 has taught at Columbia, Harvard, University College Dublin, NYU Abu Dhabi, and Trinity College Dublin. In the past he has served as Research Director of CEPR; Senior Editor of Economic Policy; Council member of the Royal Economics Society; 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.
Research Interests:
His 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 publiched by Oxford University Press in 2017; and A Short History of Brexit was published by Penguin in 2019.
Professor Hjortshøj O'Rourke is currently working on interwar trade and trade policy, and he is also interested in the relationships between trade and war.
Personal webpages: www.kevinhorourke.com IDEAS CEPR
