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The Economics of the Very Long Run: From Fire to Finance in Two Million Years

An economist's view of two million years of human history...

Iain Macleod was, with Joseph Chamberlain, one of two great...

Innovation is seen as the key to economic growth. But...

A look at the way the Roman Empire has sometimes...

European empires, re-divided after the defeat of Germany in 1918...

This lecture looks at the impact of empire on the...

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European...

In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to...

The full-rigged ship was the essential technology that enabled the...

From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1880s...