Kevin O'Rourke: Globalization and Varieties of Backlash

Guest Lecture

Abstract
Globalization is neither new nor irreversible. There have been great waves of globalization in the past that have led to a backlash against international economic integration. The lecture will describe several of these episodes and discuss the parallels between the past, the present, and — perhaps — the future. This lecture is a part of our program on the history of capitalism

About Kevin O'Rourke
Kevin O’Rourke is Professor of Economics at NYU Abu Dhabi. He was formerly the Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a former Research Director of CEPR. He is currently a Senior Editor of Economic Policy, and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals; his previous professional roles include terms as President of the European Historical Economics Society, Vice-President of the Economic History Association, and Editor of the European Review of Economic History. After obtaining a PhD in Economics at Harvard he taught at Columbia, University College Dublin, Harvard, Sciences Po Paris and Trinity College Dublin. His books include the prize-winning Globalization and History (co-authored with Jeffrey Williamson), and Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (co-authored with Ronald Findlay). He was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator in 2009 to study interwar trade and trade policy. His most recent book is Une Histoire Brève du Brexit (Odile Jacob, 2018), published in English as A Short History of Brexit: From Brentry to Backstop (Penguin, 2019).

This lecture takes place at the DIAS auditorium. The lecture will be livestreamed on our YouTube Channel.