ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The Economic History podcast is a platform for sharing knowledge, ideas and new research with a general interest audience. Each month we meet leading academics in the field and discuss a range of topics, including pandemics, long run economic growth, gender issues, financial crises, inequality, sustainable development and a number of weird and fun economic experiments in history. There is no time like the past to help us understand the present.
Hosts:
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Average audio length:
48 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Ireland
48 episodes
since May 25, 2020
episodic
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In this episode, we meet for a second time with Prof. John Turner to discuss his recent book (with Michael Aldous) 'The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry.' John takes us through the twentieth century using the new database that he and Michael have assembled. W…
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Prof. Alexander Klein walks us through what the data reveal about US manufacturing since 1880. Why did manufacturing cluster in some regions? We discuss "first nature" and "second nature" geography explanations. Which regions "survived" the aftermath of manufacturing a…
Prof. Christopher Meissner joins me to discuss his recent book 'One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850' which traces the relationship between globalization, international economic growth, development and finance since 1850. We begin with a discussion of the great flows of migran…
Prof. Claudia Goldin, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes” joins us. We discuss her recent book 'Career and Family' and trace the career-family balance of five groups of university-educated women at d…
In this episode, Professor Michael Bordo talks about his finding on the countries that "learned" to develop financial stability through history versus those that did not. Mike also walks us through the historical evolution of the Canadian and US banking systems, contrasting the relative s…
Professor Valerie Ramey takes us through the conundrum of why post-war unemployment did not surge in the USA. We then discuss the economic effects of fiscal policy and how the timing of spending (and spending announcements) matters to the measuring the outcome. We finish with a discussion on time u…
Prof. Robert Allen discusses how the desert environment led to a unique economic structure-"from the sand up". Bob takes us through the economic implication of communal lands and describes the differences between the nomadic (Bedouin) and oasis economies. He suggests that religious struct…
Prof. Tommy Bengtsson takes us through the historical effects of short term stresses on living standards and health outcomes. How did high food prices in the nineteenth century impact the mortality risk and fertility patterns of different income classes- did it change over time? How did fetal expos…
Today, we meet Prof. Luis Bértola to discuss the economic history of Latin America since the 1820s. We cover Luis' book with José Antonio Ocampo ('The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence') tracing the development paths of three selected regions through different …
In this episode, we chat with Assoc. Prof. Erik Bengtsson about his extensive work on income inequality. What is the capital share of National Income, why does it matter and why does it change? We discuss the role of democracy and the "Great Levelling" in equality that occurred in Sweden …
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