Economic History

The Euro crisis has served as a stark reminder of the fundamental importance of Germany to the larger European project. But the image of Germany as...

The Phillips Curve is world famous amongst economists. The man who invented it was an inventor, an engineer, a genius, who led an exciting life and...

In the last decade, the OECD has undergone a period of transformation under the leadership of Secretary-General Angel Gurría and his senior manage...

The performance of the British economy over the past fifty-odd years does not make for comforting reading. Indeed, the story is a depressing catalo...

When Willard M. Kiplinger launched the groundbreaking The Kiplinger Washington Letter in 1923, he left the sidelines of traditional journalism to s...

Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to...

The rise to power of populists like Donald Trump is usually attributed to the shifting values and policy preferences of voters-the demand side. Why...

A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century before the Bat...

In Out of Stock, Dara Orenstein delivers a nuanced, ambitious, and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in the history...