Name Cormac Grada Role Author | ||
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Books Famine: A Short History, Black \'47 and beyond, Jewish Ireland in the age of, Eating People Is Wrong - a, Ireland - a new economic | ||
Education University College Dublin | ||
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Cormac Ó Gráda (born 1945) is an Irish economist, a professor of economics at University College Dublin, and a prolific author of books and academic papers.
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As a historian of the economy his most quoted works are on the Irish famine of the late 1840s, and studies of fluctuations in the Irish population. Over 100 of his academic papers are available online.
He is a member of the Cliometric Society, the Economic History Society, the European Historical Economics Society, the Irish Economic and Social History Society and the Royal Irish Academy. He is also a co-editor for the European Review of Economic History, a learned journal.
He also contributes to the "Irish Economy" blogging website. with comments on the Irish financial crisis. Earlier in 2008 he gave an open verdict on the future of the Celtic Tiger economy that was about to wind down.