- 47
- Episodes
- 1
- Transcribed
- 110
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About 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.
- Publisher
- Seán Kenny
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
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30 Sept 2026
The Manufacturing/Rust Belt and Regional US Growth 1880-2010
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One from the Many
22 Dec 2025
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One from the Many
Published 31 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Sure. The real spark for the 19th century globalization where, again, these changes in technologies like the steamship, the telegraph, the railroad, just massive improvements in communication and transportation. It turns out these kinds of factors also helped spur foreign investment. And at the time, London is the world's financial center and a lot of the world's savings and the surplus of savings is channeled through London, if not coming from the British economy. And it's going out to the rest of the world in search of high returns and diversification benefits. It's helping in the meantime to build up infrastructure like railroads, ports, harbors, sewage, water facilities, all these kinds of things you need to modernize your economy in these frontier places around the world. […]
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- Alexander Klein
- Christopher Meissner
- Robert Allen
- Tommy Bengtsson
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 33 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 77 ratings
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- 29
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 98
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