The Economic History 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.
The Economic History Podcast
One from the Many
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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 migrants and capital underpinned by technological development and the gold standard. Chris then summarises the key issues that drove the Great Depression and contrasts this with the multilateralism that followed World War 2. We finish in the present day post-Bretton woods world and consider contemporary global imbalances and future considerations for designing policy for globalization in the twenty first century.