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.
The Economic History Podcast
Debt, Default and Debt Mutualisation
May 25, 2020
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Episode 1
In this episode, we discuss the history of public debt and the various ways in which it has increased or decreased over time. We review the economic costs of government default on the private sector and consider the historical record of debt mutualisations in light of the current Eurobond debate.