"Markets are not natural phenomena. They are acts of collective imagination."
About
Saoirse Ingram is one of the foremost scholars of institutional political economy working in the United Kingdom today. Born in Cork, she studied Economics at University College Dublin before completing her doctorate at Princeton. She joined Aldenmoor in 2011 and was promoted to a personal chair in 2016.
Between 2018 and 2020, Professor Ingram served as a Senior Economic Adviser to the International Monetary Fund, working on fiscal sustainability programmes in sub-Saharan Africa and structuring sovereign debt renegotiation frameworks. She returned to Aldenmoor with field-tested insights into the relationship between formal economic models and political reality.
Current research
- The political economy of central bank independence: mandate drift and democratic accountability.
- Debt and sovereignty: the conditions under which states retain meaningful fiscal autonomy.
- Feminist institutional economics and the distribution of unpaid labour in national accounts.
- Historical case studies in industrial policy: South Korea, Botswana, and nineteenth-century Germany.
Research Interests
- Political Economy
- Institutional Economics
- Former IMF Adviser