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Biographical Details:

Siobhain McGovern is a senior lecturer in economics at DCU Business School. She holds a BA and an MSc in Economics from Trinity College Dublin, a BSc in Mathematics from the Open University and a PhD from Dublin City University. Her main research areas are philosophy of social science, economic methodology, and history of economic thought. She was director of the DCU MBA programme from 1999 to 2002, director of the Professional Doctoral Programme from 2005 to 2011, and director of the Doctoral Studies Programme from 2008 to 2011. She is currently Head of the Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship (EFE) group in the DCU Business School.

Research Interests:

Economic Methodology, Philosophy of Science and Social Science, History of Economic Thought

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• McGovern, S. 2006. Dealing with the Duhem-Quine Thesis in Financial Economics: Can Causal Holism help?,Cambridge Journal of Economics 30:1. , pp105-122.
• McGovern, S. 1995. On a Maze of Second Thoughts and On the Methodology of Economic Methodology, Journal of Economic Methodology 2:2. , pp223-237.
• McGovern, S. 1994. A Lakatosian Approach to Changes in International Trade Theory, History of Political Economy 26:4. , pp351-368.

• McGovern, S., Dealing with the Duhem-Quine Thesis in Financial Economics: Can Causal Holism help?, The Association of Heterodox Economics annual conference, 01-JUL-02 - , Dublin
• McGovern, S., The role of political economy in social control in Ireland: the case of the Irish Poor Law, The European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy annual conference, 01-NOV-01 - , Sienna
• McGovern, S., When is a school not a school? The case of utility theory in early Irish nineteenth century political economy, the Association of Heterodox Economics annual conference, 01-JUN-00 - , London