Lessons from history, @EconObservatory has published a series of articles on what policy-makers & the public can learn from past pandemics, recessions & recoveries, #CoronavirusandtheEconomy ht @ProfJohnTurner @QUCEHBelfast, #econhist @EcHistSoc coronavirusandtheeconomy.com/topics/lessons… Historical epidemics provide only a loose guide to the likely impact of coronavirus; what history does suggest is that when they occur in societies already under stress, they can provoke wide-ranging & long-term changes in attitudes, culture &institutions coronavirusandtheeconomy.com/question/what-…

Slavery and Anglo-American capitalism revisited, Gavin Wright's Tawney lecture at the end of #EHS2019 @EcHistSoc @QUCEHBelfast ehsthelongrun.net/2019/03/20/sla… C18th Atlantic economy was dominated by sugar, which in turn was dominated by slavery; the slave trade was central to the process, because it would have been all but impossible to attract a free labour force to the brutal & deadly conditions that prevailed in sugar cultivation

Benefits of market integration: new #EconomicPolicy study revisits the ‘cost of non-Europe’, including after #Brexit - Thierry Mayer @sciencespo @SZignago @VVicard economic-policy.org/wp-content/upl… The EU’s #SingleMarket has increased trade between members by 109% on average for goods & by 58% for tradable services; gains from integration are significantly larger for small open economies than for large EU members; Eastern Europe has been a major beneficiary, #EconomicPolicy