Ep 27: A Tour through British Economic History

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English - January 16, 2022 12:58 - 53 minutes - 31.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Previous Episode: Ep 26: Housing policy with Sam Bowman

Next Episode: Ep 28: Finding and Funding Entrepreneurs with Matt Clifford

I talked to Duncan Weldon a former Britain economics correspondent for The Economist and the writer of the substack Value Added. We talked about his book Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through. Topics include

How did the road to riches change through centuries?
Why does Britain have no tech giants?
How did Britain survive with high levels of debt in the past?
Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in Britain and not elsewhere?

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