Neary was born in Drogheda, Ireland,[1] 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 European Economic Association in 2002.[2] He was elected to the British Academy in 2008,[5] and was a member of the Royal Irish Academy from 1997.[2] He gained an entry in Who's Who in 2008.[6]
Neary, J. Peter; van Wijnbergen, Sweder (1986). Natural Resources and the macroeconomy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Centre for Economic Policy Research, Blackwell/MIT Press. ISBN9780262140416.
Neary, J. Peter; Helpman, Elhanan; Ethier, Wilfred (1993). Theory, policy and dynamics in international trade: essays in honor of Ronald W Jones. Cambridge New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN9780521434423.
Neary, J. Peter (1995). International trade. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK Brookfield, Vermont US: Edward Elgar Publishing: international library of critical writings in economics. ISBN9781852783617.
Neary, J. Peter; Anderson, James (2005). Measuring the restrictiveness of international trade policy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN9780262012201.