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Lessons from history

Lessons from history • 18 Oct 22

Industrial action: is the UK going back to the 1970s?
Lessons from history • 12 Sep 22

How did the UK economy change during the second Elizabethan age?
Lessons from history • 25 Jul 22

Sterling crisis: what are the historical precedents?
Lessons from history • 20 Jun 22

Inflation past and present: how have we measured the rising cost of living?
Lessons from history • 01 Jun 22

Platinum Jubilee: how has the UK economy changed over the past 70 years?
Lessons from history • 11 Apr 22

How has inflation been fought in the past?
Lessons from history • 24 Mar 22

Where did Russia’s post-communism economic reforms go wrong?
Lessons from history • 18 Mar 22

What lessons from history for our response to Ukrainian refugees?
Lessons from history • 16 Mar 22

Currency choice: what lessons from Ireland for an independent Scotland?
Lessons from history • 24 Feb 22

Scotland’s future: what insights does a political economy perspective add?
Lessons from history • 17 Feb 22

Scottish independence: what lessons from the break-up of Czechoslovakia?
Lessons from history • 10 Feb 22

How has deindustrialisation shaped debates about Scottish independence?
Lessons from history • 10 Jan 22

What are the lessons from history for digital currency?
Lessons from history • 07 Oct 21

What are the long-term economic effects of pollution?
Lessons from history • 31 Aug 21

What can we learn from the role of coal in the Industrial Revolution?
Lessons from history • 21 Jun 21

Are we about to experience another Roaring Twenties?
Lessons from history • 01 Jun 21

How has the UK labour market fared in recessions and recoveries since 1870?
Lessons from history • 01 May 21

What is the economic legacy of Northern Ireland’s Troubles?
Lessons from history • 30 Apr 21

Ireland’s economy since independence: what lessons from the past 100 years?
Lessons from history • 27 Apr 21

What were the economic consequences of Irish independence?
Lessons from history • 26 Apr 21

The Great Irish Famine: what are the lessons for policy-makers today?
Lessons from history • 21 Jan 21

Past plagues: why did some create conflict while others promoted cohesion?
Lessons from history • 13 Jan 21

How do large-scale pandemics affect inequality?
Lessons from history • 17 Sep 20

How have past pandemics affected business?
Lessons from history • 26 Jun 20

Rebuilding after the Second World War: what lessons for today?
Lessons from history • 22 Jun 20

What are the long-run economic consequences of pandemics?
Lessons from history • 29 May 20

What are the lessons for today from running a wartime economy?
Lessons from history • 27 May 20

What can we learn from the past about how to pay for the crisis?
Lessons from history • 24 May 20

Does the Spanish flu offer lessons in how to tackle a pandemic?
Lessons from history • 19 May 20

What can we learn from historical recessions and depressions?
Recession & recovery • 06 Feb 23

Three centuries of UK business cycles: what lessons for today?
Attitudes, media & governance • 30 Jan 23

The US mid-term elections of 2022: what influenced the outcomes?
Communicating economics • 16 Dec 22

What’s worth reading over the holidays?
Energy & climate change • 12 Dec 22

Levies on energy profits: can they solve the UK’s cost of living crisis?
Banks & financial markets • 28 Nov 22

Fiscal and current account deficits: what threat to UK economic stability?
Energy & climate change • 09 Nov 22

How have economists thought about climate change?
Nations, regions & cities • 20 Oct 22

The BRICS countries: where next and what impact on the global economy?
Banks & financial markets • 11 Oct 22

Banking crises: who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and why?
Attitudes, media & governance • 26 Jul 22

Does public trust in government matter for effective policy-making?
News • 24 Jun 22

Summer of discontent
Banks & financial markets • 23 Jun 22

Why are cryptocurrencies crashing?
News • 10 Jun 22

Picture this
Public spending, taxes & debt • 20 May 22

Should the UK impose a windfall tax on energy companies’ profits?
Banks & financial markets • 17 May 22

How did the first Monetary Policy Committee members pursue their mandate?
Banks & financial markets • 06 May 22

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee at 25: where next?
Nations, regions & cities • 21 Apr 22

How might Scottish independence affect Northern Ireland’s economy?
Trade & supply chains • 13 Apr 22

Sanctions on Russia: what are the ramifications of this new trade war?
News • 25 Mar 22

War stories
News • 25 Feb 22

Tearing up the rulebook
News • 11 Feb 22

Scotland’s past and future

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