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Working Papers

2024

1. Challenges of wealth-based sustainability metrics: A critical appraisal
   Accountancy, Economics, and Finance Working Papers, Heriot-Watt University, Department of Accountancy, Economics, and Finance
   See also Journal Article Challenges of wealth-based sustainability metrics: A critical appraisal, Ecological Economics, Elsevier (2024) (2024)
2. Helping the poor help themselves: Social enterprise and Ireland's peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836-1845
   Accountancy, Economics, and Finance Working Papers, Heriot-Watt University, Department of Accountancy, Economics, and Finance
3. Mind Your Language: Explaining the Retreat of the Irish Language Frontier
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
   Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2024)
4. Rethinking the geography of distress in nineteenth-century Ireland: Excess mortality and the Land War
   Accountancy, Economics, and Finance Working Papers, Heriot-Watt University, Department of Accountancy, Economics, and Finance
   Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2024)

2023

5. Cardiovascular Disease Mortality and Non-Particulate Air Pollution: Evidence from the 20th Century
   Accountancy, Economics, and Finance Working Papers, Heriot-Watt University, Department of Accountancy, Economics, and Finance
6. Tracing Sustainability in the Long Run: Genuine Savings Estimates 1850 - 2018
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   See also Chapter Tracing Sustainability in the Long Run: Genuine Savings Estimates 1850–2018, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2024) (2024)
7. What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
   See also Journal Article What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature, Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier (2024) View citations (1) (2024)

2022

8. Demography and age heaping: Solving Ireland's post-famine digit preference puzzle
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
   Also in Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) (2022)
9. Political economy of secession: Lessons from the early years of the Irish Free State
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SECESSION: LESSONS FROM THE EARLY YEARS OF THE IRISH FREE STATE, National Institute Economic Review, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (2022) (2022)

2021

10. Cohort component population estimates for Ireland, 1911-1920: A new county-level dataset for use in historical demography
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (1)
11. Fringe Banking and Financialisation: Pawnbroking in pre-famine and famine Ireland
    Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES)
    Also in Economics Department Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, National University of Ireland - Maynooth (2021)
    See also Journal Article Fringe banking and financialization: Pawnbroking in pre‐famine and famine Ireland, Economic History Review, Economic History Society (2022) (2022)
12. Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War
    Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES)

2020

13. Death, Demography and the Denominator: New Influenza-18 Mortality Estimates for Ireland
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (1)
    Also in SRERC Working Paper Series, University College Cork (UCC), Spatial and Regional Economic Research Centre (SRERC) (2020) View citations (1)
14. Financial inclusion with hybrid organisational forms: Microfinance, philanthropy, and the poor law in Ireland, c. 1836-1845
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
    See also Journal Article Financial Inclusion with Hybrid Organizational Forms: Microfinance, Philanthropy, and the Poor Law in Ireland, c. 1836–1845, Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press (2022) (2022)
15. Opening the Black Box of the Danish Dairy Cooperatives: A Productivity Analysis
    Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) View citations (4)

2019

16. Ireland's peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836-1845
    eabh Papers, The European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH)
    Also in Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development (2019)
17. Living standards and inequality in the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the height of University of Edinburgh students in the 1830s
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Living standards and inequality in the industrial revolution: Evidence from the height of University of Edinburgh students in the 1830s, Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier (2019) View citations (3) (2019)
18. The Circular Economy: Swings and Roundabouts?
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (82)
    See also Journal Article The Circular Economy: Swings and Roundabouts?, Ecological Economics, Elsevier (2019) View citations (82) (2019)

2018

19. Genuine Savings as a Test of New Zealand Weak Sustainability
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Genuine savings as a test of New Zealand weak sustainability, Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer (2020) View citations (5) (2020)

2017

20. Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (6)
    Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2017) View citations (6)
21. Substituting Freshwater: Can Ocean Desalination and Water Recycling Capacities Substitute for Groundwater Depletion in California?
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (2)

2016

22. Australia: a Land of Missed Opportunities?
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Australia: a land of missed opportunities?, Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press (2017) View citations (7) (2017)
23. Genuine Savings in developing and developed countries, 1900-2000
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (8)

2015

24. Capitalising on the Irish Land Question:Land Reform and State Banking in Ireland, 1891-1938
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Capitalising on the Irish land question: land reform and state banking in Ireland, 1891–1938, Financial History Review, Cambridge University Press (2016) View citations (8) (2016)
25. Competition between organisational forms in Danish and Irish dairying around the turn of the twentieth century
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article Competition between organisational forms in Danish and Irish dairying around the turn of the twentieth century, Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals (2021) View citations (1) (2021)
26. Contracts and Cooperation: The Relative Failure of the Irish Dairy Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century Reconsidered
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (16)
    Also in Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) (2015) View citations (12)
    CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) (2015) View citations (16)
    See also Journal Article Contracts and cooperation: the relative failure of the Irish dairy industry in the late nineteenth century reconsidered, European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society (2015) View citations (15) (2015)
27. Economic Impact of the Irish revolution
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (3)
28. Quantifying Human Capital Accumulation in Rural Ireland in the Nineteenth Century
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (4)
    Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2015) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Women of an uncertain age: quantifying human capital accumulation in rural Ireland in the nineteenth century, Economic History Review, Economic History Society (2017) View citations (16) (2017)
29. Sovereign debt guarantees and default: Lessons from the UK and Ireland, 1920-1938
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
    See also Journal Article Sovereign debt guarantees and default: Lessons from the UK and Ireland, 1920–1938, European Economic Review, Elsevier (2016) View citations (5) (2016)

2014

30. Accounting for Sustainable Development over the Long-Run:Lessons from Germany
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
    See also Journal Article Accounting for Sustainable Development over the Long-Run: Lessons from Germany, German Economic Review, De Gruyter (2019) View citations (1) (2019)
31. Can women count? Gender and numeracy in nineteenth-century Ireland
    Working Papers, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History
32. Empirical testing of genuine savings as an indicator of weak sustainability: a three-country analysis of long run trends
    SIRE Discussion Papers, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) View citations (1)
    Also in Stirling Economics Discussion Papers, University of Stirling, Division of Economics (2014) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Empirical Testing of Genuine Savings as an Indicator of Weak Sustainability: A Three-Country Analysis of Long-Run Trends, Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer (2016) View citations (8) (2016)
33. Genuine Savings and Sustainability
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article GENUINE SAVINGS AND SUSTAINABILITY, Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell (2015) View citations (44) (2015)
34. Irish land bonds: 1891-1938
    eabh Papers, The European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH)
    Also in Edinburgh School of Economics Discussion Paper Series, Edinburgh School of Economics, University of Edinburgh (2013)
    SIRE Discussion Papers, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) (2013)
35. State dissolution, sovereign debt and default: Lessons from the UK and Ireland, 1920-1938
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (1)
    Also in Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) (2014) View citations (1)
36. The Emperor Has New Clothes: Empirical Tests of Mainstream Theories of Economic Growth
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
    Also in SIRE Discussion Papers, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) (2014)
    Stirling Economics Discussion Papers, University of Stirling, Division of Economics (2014)

2013

37. Comprehensive investment and future well-being in the USA, 1869-2000
    Stirling Economics Discussion Papers, University of Stirling, Division of Economics View citations (5)
38. Genuine savings and future well-being in Germany, 1850-2000
    Stirling Economics Discussion Papers, University of Stirling, Division of Economics View citations (5)
    Also in SIRE Discussion Papers, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) (2013) View citations (2)
39. Human capital in the UK, 1760 to 2009
    Working Papers, Economic History Society

2012

40. How Environmental Pollution from Fossil Fuels can be included in measures of National Accounts and Estimates of Genuine Savings
    Stirling Economics Discussion Papers, University of Stirling, Division of Economics View citations (1)
41. Testing for long-run "sustainability": Genuine Savings estimates for B ritain, 1760-2000
    Stirling Economics Discussion Papers, University of Stirling, Division of Economics View citations (6)
42. Testing the predictive power of genuine savings as a long-run indicator of future well-being
    CEH Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic History, Research School of Economics, Australian National University View citations (4)

Journal Articles

2024

1. A Microlevel Analysis of Danish Dairy Cooperatives: Opportunities for Large Data in Business History
   Enterprise & Society, 2024, 25, (3), 669-697
2. A Microlevel Analysis of Danish Dairy Cooperatives: Opportunities for Large Data in Business History – ERRATUM
   Enterprise & Society, 2024, 25, (3), 698-698
3. Challenges of wealth-based sustainability metrics: A critical appraisal
   Ecological Economics, 2024, 224, (C)
   See also Working Paper Challenges of wealth-based sustainability metrics: A critical appraisal, Accountancy, Economics, and Finance Working Papers (2024) (2024)
4. What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature
   Social Science & Medicine, 2024, 342, (C) View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2023) (2023)

2022

5. Financial Inclusion with Hybrid Organizational Forms: Microfinance, Philanthropy, and the Poor Law in Ireland, c. 1836–1845
   Enterprise & Society, 2022, 23, (2), 548-581
   See also Working Paper Financial inclusion with hybrid organisational forms: Microfinance, philanthropy, and the poor law in Ireland, c. 1836-1845, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2020) (2020)
6. Fringe banking and financialization: Pawnbroking in pre‐famine and famine Ireland
   Economic History Review, 2022, 75, (3), 903-931
   See also Working Paper Fringe Banking and Financialisation: Pawnbroking in pre-famine and famine Ireland, Working Papers (2021) (2021)
7. POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SECESSION: LESSONS FROM THE EARLY YEARS OF THE IRISH FREE STATE
   National Institute Economic Review, 2022, 261, 48-78
   See also Working Paper Political economy of secession: Lessons from the early years of the Irish Free State, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2022) View citations (2) (2022)

2021

8. Anthropometric History: Revisiting What’s in it for Ireland
   Irish Economic and Social History, 2021, 48, (1), 3-26
9. Competition between organisational forms in Danish and Irish dairying around the turn of the twentieth century
   Business History, 2021, 63, (2), 314-341 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Competition between organisational forms in Danish and Irish dairying around the turn of the twentieth century, Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics (2015) View citations (10) (2015)
10. Death, demography and the denominator: Age-adjusted Influenza-18 mortality in Ireland
    Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 41, (C) View citations (8)

2020

11. Genuine savings as a test of New Zealand weak sustainability
    Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2020, 22, (1), 89-127 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Genuine Savings as a Test of New Zealand Weak Sustainability, Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics (2018) View citations (5) (2018)

2019

12. Accounting for Sustainable Development over the Long-Run: Lessons from Germany
    German Economic Review, 2019, 20, (4), 410-446 View citations (1)
    Also in German Economic Review, 2019, 20, (4), 410-446 (2019) View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper Accounting for Sustainable Development over the Long-Run:Lessons from Germany, Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics (2014) (2014)
13. Living standards and inequality in the industrial revolution: Evidence from the height of University of Edinburgh students in the 1830s
    Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 35, (C), 185-192 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Living standards and inequality in the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the height of University of Edinburgh students in the 1830s, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2019) View citations (4) (2019)
14. The Circular Economy: Swings and Roundabouts?
    Ecological Economics, 2019, 158, (C), 11-19 View citations (82)
    See also Working Paper The Circular Economy: Swings and Roundabouts?, Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics (2019) View citations (82) (2019)

2017

15. Australia: a land of missed opportunities?
    Environment and Development Economics, 2017, 22, (6), 674-698 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper Australia: a Land of Missed Opportunities?, Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics (2016) View citations (3) (2016)
16. Women of an uncertain age: quantifying human capital accumulation in rural Ireland in the nineteenth century
    Economic History Review, 2017, 70, (1), 187-223 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper Quantifying Human Capital Accumulation in Rural Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics (2015) View citations (4) (2015)

2016

17. Capitalising on the Irish land question: land reform and state banking in Ireland, 1891–1938
    Financial History Review, 2016, 23, (1), 71-109 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper Capitalising on the Irish Land Question:Land Reform and State Banking in Ireland, 1891-1938, Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics (2015) View citations (1) (2015)
18. Empirical Testing of Genuine Savings as an Indicator of Weak Sustainability: A Three-Country Analysis of Long-Run Trends
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2016, 63, (2), 313-338 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper Empirical testing of genuine savings as an indicator of weak sustainability: a three-country analysis of long run trends, SIRE Discussion Papers (2014) View citations (1) (2014)
19. Sovereign debt guarantees and default: Lessons from the UK and Ireland, 1920–1938
    European Economic Review, 2016, 87, (C), 272-286 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Sovereign debt guarantees and default: Lessons from the UK and Ireland, 1920-1938, Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics (2015) (2015)

2015

20. Contracts and cooperation: the relative failure of the Irish dairy industry in the late nineteenth century reconsidered
    European Review of Economic History, 2015, 19, (4), 412-431 View citations (15)
    See also Working Paper Contracts and Cooperation: The Relative Failure of the Irish Dairy Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century Reconsidered, Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics (2015) View citations (16) (2015)
21. GENUINE SAVINGS AND SUSTAINABILITY
    Journal of Economic Surveys, 2015, 29, (4), 779-806 View citations (44)
    See also Working Paper Genuine Savings and Sustainability, Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics (2014) View citations (5) (2014)
22. Writing the Economic History of Ireland since Independence
    Irish Economic and Social History, 2015, 42, (1), 76-92

2014

23. 'Profligacy in the encouragement of thrift': Savings banks in Ireland, 1817-1914
    Business History, 2014, 56, (4), 569-591 View citations (5)
24. Counting carbon: historic emissions from fossil fuels, long-run measures of sustainable development and carbon debt
    Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2014, 62, (3), 243-265 View citations (10)
25. Historical wealth accounts for Britain: progress and puzzles in measuring the sustainability of economic growth
    Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2014, 30, (1), 44-69 View citations (12)
26. Raiffeisenism abroad: why did German cooperative banking fail in Ireland but prosper in the Netherlands?
    Economic History Review, 2014, 67, (2), 492-516 View citations (23)
27. Testing genuine savings as a forward-looking indicator of future well-being over the (very) long-run
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2014, 67, (2), 171-188 View citations (36)

2013

28. A Note on Mutual Savings and Loan Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
    Irish Economic and Social History, 2013, 40, (1), 48-68 View citations (1)
29. An experiment in banking the poor: the Irish Mont-de-Piété, c. 1830–18501
    Financial History Review, 2013, 20, (1), 49-72 View citations (2)

2011

30. Thesis Abstract
    Irish Economic and Social History, 2011, 38, (1), 108-110

Chapters

2024

1. Tracing Sustainability in the Long Run: Genuine Savings Estimates 1850–2018
   A chapter in Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods: A National Accounts Perspective, 2024
   See also Working Paper Tracing Sustainability in the Long Run: Genuine Savings Estimates 1850 - 2018, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2018

2. Environment and Natural Resources
   Palgrave Macmillan