Bretton Goods

Ep 27: A Tour through British Economic History

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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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    Bretton GoodsBy Pradyumna Prasad
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