The Economic History Podcast
The Economic History podcast is a platform for sharing knowledge, ideas and new research with a general interest audience. Each fortnight, 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.
Podcasting since 2020 • 36 episodes
The Economic History Podcast
Latest Episodes
Slouching Towards Utopia
In this episode, we meet Prof. Bradford DeLong to discuss his recent book 'Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century.' We cover the rate of technological change prior to the industrial revolution. Before 1500, "the ...
June 29, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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50:11
Macroeconomic (In)stability in UK Economic History, 1700-2010
In this episode, we meet Assist. Prof. Jason Lennard to discuss his work on measuring fluctuations in the UK economy. We cover the nature of the business cycle, how it is measured and how it has changed through time. We also consider the ...
May 30, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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53:41
Heights in (Economic) History
In this episode, we meet Prof. Eric Schneider to discuss the use of data on heights in economic history as a measure of well-being. Eric discusses his use of the crew records on a British ship (in operation for over a century) and what such sou...
April 29, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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46:41
Complements to GDP: Measuring Freedom, Health and Education through time
Today we meet with and discuss the recent work of Prof. Leandro Prados de la Escosura. We speak about the concept of economic liberty and discuss whether improvements in measures of health and education map on to GDP per capita over time.....it...
March 15, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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1:20:27
The Rise and Fall of American Growth, 1870-2010
In this episode, Prof. Robert Gordon walks us through the U.S. growth record since the Civil War. We discuss some key takeaways from his monumental 2016 book (which lends its name to this episode). We cover some key drivers of changes in standa...
November 30, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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46:01