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Lessons from history

Lessons from history • 14 Sep 23

Scottish Enlightenment: what were the influences on Adam Smith’s thought?
Lessons from history • 05 Sep 23

What can we learn from banking crises of the past?
Lessons from history • 26 Jul 23

What is the role of storytelling in economics?
Lessons from history • 12 Jul 23

Where is the wealth of nations in the 21st century?
Lessons from history • 23 Jun 23

Why can economic forecasts go wrong?
Lessons from history • 09 Jun 23

What did Adam Smith think – and why does it matter today?
Lessons from history • 03 Apr 23

The Good Friday Agreement at 25: has there been a peace dividend?
Lessons from history • 28 Mar 23

Can UK trade unions recover their post-war power?
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?
Inequality & poverty • 22 Sep 23

Does Adam Smith’s theory really imply today’s inequality?
Attitudes, media & governance • 18 Sep 23

Principles of motion: how should policy-makers think about human behaviour?
Banks & financial markets • 07 Sep 23

Swiss banks now and in the global financial crisis: is this time different?
Banks & financial markets • 04 Sep 23

Why did the global financial crisis of 2007-09 happen?
Attitudes, media & governance • 20 Jun 23

Adam Smith: what is the role of honour in society?
Trade & supply chains • 19 Jun 23

Globalisation and backlash: how has world trade evolved over 300 years?
News • 16 Jun 23

Adam Smith: an economist for his times – and ours
Data stories • 08 Jun 23

300 years of history: In numbers
News • 28 Apr 23

In time of war
Aid & international development • 09 Mar 23

What is the likely impact of the earthquakes on economic growth in Türkiye?
News • 10 Feb 23

Back to normal?
Recession & recovery • 06 Feb 23

Three centuries of UK business cycles: what lessons for today?

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