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Thomas Boylan

An Irish economist and writer whose work brings big ideas down to earth, he has written widely on economic thought, methodology, and Irish intellectual history. His books and essays show a steady interest in how economics connects with philosophy, politics, and real life.

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by Thomas Boylan

About the author

Thomas A. Boylan is an Irish academic author best known for his work in economics and the history of economic thought. Sources available here identify him as Professor Emeritus of Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway, with research and teaching interests including economic growth and development theory, applied econometrics, methodology and philosophy of economics, post-Keynesian economics, and the history of Irish economic thought.

His published work ranges across specialist and interdisciplinary topics. Among the books linked to him in the sources consulted are Popper and Economic Methodology, Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics, Philosophy of Mathematics and Economics, Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy, Political Economy and Colonial Ireland, and A History of Irish Economic Thought.

He has also written essays for the Dublin Review of Books, reflecting the same broad curiosity that marks his academic work. Taken together, his writing suggests an author interested not just in how economies function, but in how ideas about economics are formed, argued over, and shaped by history.