Irish economists abroad

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We all get very proud of Philip and his RePEc ranking and so on, but is there a representative bias at play?

John Sutton is a professor in the LSE, and a superstar in the IO world. Similarly, Peter Neary has (by my count) six publications in the AER.

There are others who almost never seem to get a mention. For example, John Kennan is a UCD graduate and a professor in Wisconsin, a Top 30-in-the-world university.

Who else can we add to the list of our economic diaspora?

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Has anyone heard of John McHale? He was an associate professor of economics at Harvard and is a graduate of UCG. I had a nice chat with him once before and it was only afterwards I found out he was joining NUIG as head of the economics department, having spent about 10 years in Harvard.

McHale is well regarded all right.

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I now remember Jonathan Haughton. McHale is coming back/is back already, right?

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I now remember Jonathan Haughton. McHale is coming back/is back already, right?

Ya he came back last August I think.

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By chance, found another of the TCD -> Harvard posse. Was elected a TCD Scholar from BESS (even with 'Jude' as a middle name :pac:) and seems to be doing very good work.

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Andrew John, of The Macroeconomics of Dr Strangelove fame, did his undergrad in TCD.

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Probably pushing it a bit, but Gregory Lewis in Harvard has Irish citizenship.

Anonymous1987

Post number 7 was pushing it, now its getting desperate

Jonathan Wright is a BESS grad and is now a professor in John Hopkins.

http://www.econ.jhu.edu/People/Wright/index.html

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Top-up time: I know of Irish PhD students in Northwestern (TCD grad), Duke (TCD grad), UC San Diego (TCD grad), UC Santa Barbara (UCD grad), University of Michigan (TCD grad), University of Pittsburgh (UCD grad), European Union Institute (TCD grad), University College London (NUIM grad), Warwick (UCD grad).

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Silly of me to forget Doireann FitzGerald in Stanford.

Aoife Hanley seems Irish; Andrew Burke certainly is.

graw

He might be dead over 80 years... but a Longford man by the name of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. I'm sure you're all aware of his box. Not so sure exactly how that sounds but there you go! :cool:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ysidro_Edgeworth

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He might be dead over 80 years...

We can list many economists but this is a list of those still of corporeal form!

Anthony Murphy is in Oxford.

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The graduating class of 1991 has a pretty phenomenal record, all things considered.

Philip Lane, Professor in TCD, BA 1991.
Karl Whelan, Professor in UCD, BA 1991.
Paul Devereux, Professor in UCD, MA 1991.
Colm Harmon, Professor in UCD, BA 1991.
Henry Farrell, Professor in George Washington University, BA 1991.
Alan Ahearne, Special Adviser to the Minister for Finance, MEconSci 1991.

When you add in others from 1990 (John McHale, Jonathan Wright) you have a hell of a cohort.

mono627

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The graduating class of 1991 has a pretty phenomenal record, all things considered.

Philip Lane, Professor in TCD, BA 1991.
Karl Whelan, Professor in UCD, BA 1991.
Paul Devereux, Professor in UCD, MA 1991.
Colm Harmon, Professor in UCD, BA 1991.
Henry Farrell, Professor in George Washington University, BA 1991.
Alan Ahearne, Special Adviser to the Minister for Finance, MEconSci 1991.

When you add in others from 1990 (John McHale, Jonathan Wright) you have a hell of a cohort.

Wow, just took a quick look at Philip Lane's CV and it's very impressive! An out and out academic!

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IE blog provides a great nugget today.

Canice Prendergast, professor in the University of Chicago and editor of the Journal of Political Economy, is formerly of this parish.

Mardy Bum

Karl Whelan is by far the best economics lecturer in UCD and by all accounts a sound man.