J. Peter Neary (11 February 1950 – 16 June 2021) was an economist specialising in

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. He was professor of economics at

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, and a professorial fellow of

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, as well as associate member of

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. He was previously professor of political economy at

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, from 1980 to 2006. He was also a research fellow of the

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. Neary was born in Drogheda,

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, and educated at University College Dublin and Oxford, where he completed his D.Phil. in 1978. He was an editor of the ''European Economic Review'' (1986–1990) and served on a number of other editorial boards. He was president of the Irish Economic Association (1990–92), and president of the

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in 2002. He was elected to the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...

in 2008, and was a member of the

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from 1997. He gained an entry in ''

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'' in 2008. Neary, together with

W. Max Corden Warner Max Corden AC (born 13 August 1927) is an Australian economist. He is mostly known for his work on the theory of trade protection, including the development of the dutch disease model of international trade. He has also been active in the ...

, in 1982 developed the classic

economic model In economics, a model is a theoretical construct representing economic processes by a set of variables and a set of logical and/or quantitative relationships between them. The economic model is a simplified, often mathematical, framework desig ...

describing

Dutch disease In economics, the Dutch disease is the apparent causal relationship between the increase in the economic development of a specific sector (for example natural resources) and a decline in other sectors (like the manufacturing sector or agricultur ...

Selected bibliography

Books

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Journal articles

References

External links

Merton College profile page

List of publications
{{DEFAULTSORT:Neary, J. Peter Trade economists 20th-century Irish economists People from Drogheda Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of Merton College, Oxford Fellows of the Econometric Society Members of the Royal Irish Academy Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of University College Dublin 1950 births 2021 deaths Fellows of the European Economic Association 21st-century Irish economists