What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
His primary areas of study are Famine, Economy, Development economics, Poverty and Demography.
His Famine research incorporates elements of Economic growth, Standard of living and Natural disaster.
His Economy study incorporates themes from Economic planning, Immigration and Public expenditure.
His Poverty research includes themes of Industrial policy, Fiscal policy, Free trade and Emigration.
His Emigration research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Famine relief, Economic history, Convergence and Agriculture.
His Population growth research integrates issues from Historical demography and Demographic analysis.
His most cited work include:
- Famine: A Short History (158 citations)
- Market contagion : evidence from the panics of 1854 and 1857 (152 citations)
- Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780-1939 (132 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Famine, Economic history, Economy, Development economics and Demography are his primary areas of study.
Cormac Ó Gráda has researched Famine in several fields, including Poverty, Standard of living, Ancient history and Emigration.
His research links Agriculture with Economic history.
Cormac Ó Gráda carries out multidisciplinary research, doing studies in Demography and Fertility.
Cormac Ó Gráda works in the field of Fertility, namely Marital Fertility.
He most often published in these fields:
- Famine (31.62%)
- Economic history (21.34%)
- Economy (14.91%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2021)?
- Famine (31.62%)
- Industrial Revolution (6.94%)
- Economic history (21.34%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His main research concerns Famine, Industrial Revolution, Economic history, Standard of living and Development economics.
His Famine research focuses on subjects like Demographic economics, which are linked to Duty.
The various areas that Cormac Ó Gráda examines in his Industrial Revolution study include Technological change, Economic growth, Human capital, Industrialisation and Economy.
The concepts of his Economy study are interwoven with issues in Immigration and Emigration.
His Standard of living research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Plague, Literacy and Middle Ages.
His work carried out in the field of Development economics brings together such families of science as Famine relief, Status quo and Product.
Between 2011 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Precocious Albion: A New Interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution (55 citations)
- Numerare Est Errare: Agricultural Output and Food Supply in England Before and During the Industrial Revolution (34 citations)
- Why Ireland Starved after Three Decades: The Great Famine in Cross-Section Reconsidered (34 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
Cormac Ó Gráda mainly investigates Industrial Revolution, Famine, Economic history, Development economics and Technological change.
His study in Industrial Revolution is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Economic growth, Human capital and Agricultural economics.
His Famine study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Early modern period, Ancient history, Digital history, Ethnology and Refugee.
He regularly links together related areas like Index in his Economic history studies.
While the research belongs to areas of Development economics, he spends his time largely on the problem of Plague, intersecting his research to questions surrounding Public action.
His Technological change research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Value and Economy.
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