Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change
Research interests:
American and European economic history, political economy, history of economic thought,philosophy of economics, economics education for labour and community groups.
Dr. Terrence McDonough's undergraduate degree is from Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont and his Ph.D. is from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before joining NUI, Galway in 1995, other appointments were at the Institute for Industry Studies, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, at Canisius College, Buffalo, and at Dublin City University. His current research interests include Globalization, American and Irish economic history, political economy, the history of economic thought and economics education for labour and community groups. He is currently finishing up editing Was Ireland a Colony? Economic, Polical, Ideological and Cultural Perspectives on the Irish Nineteenth Century to be published by Irish Academic Press. He is working on a short book on contemporary economics and the Great Irish Famine and an article on the nature of Globalization. Dr. McDonough is an editor of Social Structures of Accumulation: the Political Economy of Growth and Crisis, ed. by David Kotz, Terrence McDonough, and Michael Reich published by Cambridge University Press and co-author of Mind Your Own Business: Economics at Work. His articles have appeared in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, The Australian Journal of Irish Studies, The Review of Radical Political Economics, Science and Society, The Journal of Economic Issues and Research in Political Economy. He has contributed a number of book chapters and several entries to The Encyclopaedia of Political Economy
Research projects:
"Globalisation and Long Wave Theory" (Project Leader)
Publications, presentations etc:
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