New podcast: economic lessons from history

New podcast: economic lessons from history

The CAGE Research Centre has launched a new economics podcast on the making of the modern world which looks to the past to help inform the decisions we make now and in the future.

Produced in partnership with On HumansLink opens in a new window, our first series explores the reasons Western Europe became the richest corner of the early modern world - overtaking China and India to become the epicentre of the world economy.

With guests that include leading experts Kenneth Pomeranz, Joel Mokyr, Robert Allen, Debin Ma, Bishnupriya Gupta, and Stephen Broadberry each episode covers this from multiple angles - including insights into colonialism, the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuels, knowledge-formation, and historical GDP estimates.

Along with supporting resources we discuss their theories around why the West got rich and gain insight into how what is known as the "Great Divergence" has an impact on world events today.

• Listen to the series: CAGE Economic History Podcast