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Why the Commonwealth trade advantage isn’t all that strong.
Bitcoin is being compared to tulips, but I researched tulip mania for years and found no evidence of mass bankruptcies or economic meltdown.
Historically, wishful thinking has blunted pushback.
When Enlightenment thinkers were looking for a way to build a healthy and productive society, they hit upon the tuber.
In 15th and 16th century France, two female textile guilds - comprised of single women and wives working independently of their husbands - wielded great power. By the end of the 18th century, they had been dismantled.
If the stars align, consumers will benefit from increased economic activity in the short term. And if they don’t, then the economic recovery will have consumers saving more in uncertain times.
A curriculum can’t be decolonised by simply removing content. This denies students the chance to participate in local policy debates and the global job market. A more nuanced approach is needed.
North’s work and life should be celebrated as it continues to inspire studies of economic history.
The “national interest”, at least as far as economic policy is concerned, has always been a contested compromise and a consequence of the relative political influence of domestic forces.
In the shadow of a history-repeating Black Monday, it’s useful to step back and ask how we got here again.
African economic history has had a renaissance and its most valuable contribution has been to show that Africans have not always been poor, nor are current poverty levels an inevitable destiny.
Archive videos show the Conservative rhetoric on Labour economic mismanagement hasn’t changed much.
To understand this week’s G20 Summit being held in Brisbane, Australia, and measure its success, requires a sense of the history of economic crisis and change. Recurring crises have shaped global institutions…
Behind every economic policy initiative lies a narrative justifying that course of action: immigration increases unemployment; public debt is unsustainable; manufacturing is interminably declining; city…
Though money and financial factors are integrated in complex ways in the workings of the economy, ultimately it is real resources – work forces (sizes and skills), capital goods and natural resources…
Political wrangling over food prices has a long history, and a difficult future. We have become used to ever-cheaper food, but a closer look at what’s happening shows that what we buy and how much we pay…
Note: this article contains TV show plot spoilers up to and including the series 4 finale. It also features detail from the books (though no plot spoilers). Wannabe king Stannis Baratheon’s unexpected…
On June 6 1944, more than 150,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy. Their number rose to 1.5m over the next six weeks. With them came millions of tons of equipment, ranging from munitions, vehicles, food…
Few economics books have caused quite the stir which accompanied the release of the English version of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty First Century. And there can be few who are not familiar with…
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Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor of International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor, Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Teaching Fellow, Management Science & Innovation, UCL
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Chair in the History of Finance and Research Dean, Prosperity and Resilience, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Adjunct Professor, Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Reader in History (Education), University of Birmingham
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Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Professor of Economic and Business History, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Economics, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Researcher for the Food Research Collaboration, City, University of London
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Professor of Economics, School of Economics & Finance, Curtin University
