About Me
Economist, historian & pedagogical reformer
I work at Queen's University Belfast, where I am a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen's Management School and a Research Associate at the university's Centre for Economic History.
I am an economic historian with research interests in banking crises, corporate governance, innovation policy, cultural economics, and demographic change. My research mostly addresses issues in the business and financial history of the Netherlands, and the economic and social history of Ireland.
I lead a teaching and learning project which aims to re-insert the study of economic history into the economics curriculum. My book, An Economist's Guide to Economic History (co-edited with Matthias Blum), is available in paperback or eBook.
I am an economic historian with research interests in banking crises, corporate governance, innovation policy, cultural economics, and demographic change. My research mostly addresses issues in the business and financial history of the Netherlands, and the economic and social history of Ireland.
I lead a teaching and learning project which aims to re-insert the study of economic history into the economics curriculum. My book, An Economist's Guide to Economic History (co-edited with Matthias Blum), is available in paperback or eBook.
News
Research News
I have completed a new working paper on Dutch monetary policymaking during the interwar period (co-authored with Philip Fliers). We explore policy formation, implementation and impact, and mix quantitative with qualitative analysis.
Matthias Blum, Eoin McLaughlin and myself have a wholly-revised version of our Great Irish Famine paper, which now comes in two parts:
I have completed a new working paper on Dutch monetary policymaking during the interwar period (co-authored with Philip Fliers). We explore policy formation, implementation and impact, and mix quantitative with qualitative analysis.
Matthias Blum, Eoin McLaughlin and myself have a wholly-revised version of our Great Irish Famine paper, which now comes in two parts:
Conferencing News
- I will present my new working paper (co-authored with Philip Fliers) on monetary policymaking in the Netherlands during the interwar gold standard at the the European Historical Economics Society (Paris, August 2019) and the Money, Macro and Finance Conference (London, September 2019).
- I will present a paper on economic history pedagogy (co-authored with Graham Brownlow) at the Developments in Economics Education Conference (Warwick, September 2019).
Pedagogy News
- I will take part in a public event on 18 September on the future of economics pedagogy, organised by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
- I wrote an op-ed for QPol about the pedagogical motivation behind An Economist's Guide to Economic History.
- I was recently interviewed about the book by Palgrave Macmillan commissioning editor Ruth Noble.
Teaching News
- I will be teaching a brand new first-year undergraduate module at Queen's called Communicating Economics. I aim to empower students to talk and write coherently and concisely about economics and the economy.
- I will also be taking over the teaching of the microeconomics component of the Queen's MBA. My plan is to teach using CORE Econ, supplemented with HBS case studies.