Denis Patrick O'Brien
Denis Patrick O'Brien (born 1939 in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England) is an English economist who has worked in industrial economics and the history of economic thought. O'Brien graduated in 1960 with a BSc (Economics) from University College London. From 1963 to 1972 he was Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer and then Reader in Economics at Queen's University Belfast. From 1972 to 1997 he was Professor of Economics at the University of Durham where he has since been Emeritus. O'Brien was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in 1988. Edited volumes: