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Lessons from history

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?
News • 25 Jun 21

Twenty-twenties vision
Data stories • 11 Jun 21

Is football coming home?
News • 04 Jun 21

Work in progress
Banks & financial markets • 24 May 21

Are we in the middle of a tech bubble?
Pensions, savings & investment • 10 May 21

Does the stock market reflect the economy?
News • 30 Apr 21

Northern Ireland at 100
Nations, regions & cities • 29 Apr 21

What explains Northern Ireland’s long-standing problem of low productivity?
Recession & recovery • 15 Apr 21

How has coronavirus affected social capital in the UK?
Aid & international development • 22 Mar 21

Are there differences in Africa’s responses to Ebola and Covid-19?
Charities & volunteering • 17 Feb 21

Is coronavirus distracting us from other pressing social concerns?
Banks & financial markets • 29 Jan 21

GameStop: what is going on with prices in the US stock market?
News • 22 Jan 21

History has its eyes on us
Schools, universities & training • 20 Jan 21

#economicsfest: Does economics need to be ‘decolonised’?
Data stories • 16 Dec 20

What explains the revival in job vacancies alongside rising unemployment?
Pensions, savings & investment • 16 Dec 20

UK household wealth tripled in 20 years: where did it all come from?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 14 Dec 20

Why did some earlier wealth taxes fail and could this time be different?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 11 Dec 20

Does history suggest that wealth taxes help to improve the public finances?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 09 Dec 20

One-off wealth taxes: what can we learn from history?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 18 Nov 20

#economicsfest: Is Big Government back?
Banks & financial markets • 01 Oct 20

Why has the stock market bounced back when the economy seems so bad?
Prices & interest rates • 15 Jul 20

After coronavirus: deflation or inflation?
Attitudes, media & governance • 03 Jun 20

Risk in the time of Covid-19: what do we know and not know?
Public spending, taxes & debt • 29 May 20

What is the likely future role of the state in the UK economy?
Health, physical & mental • 28 May 20

What are the effects of recessions on health?
Trade & supply chains • 23 May 20

What happens to trade in a global downturn?

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