Ep 27: A Tour through British Economic History
Jan 16, 2022•53 min
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Episode description
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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