Category: Economic history

Why the Allies won WW1

Post author By Kevin O’Rourke
Post date November 11, 2014

The latest column in the VoxEU series on the economics of World War I is by Steve Broadberry, and is available here.

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The Great Mortgaging

Post author By Kevin O’Rourke
Post date October 14, 2014

Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick, and Alan Taylor provide a little historical perspective on banks’ mortgage lending here.

Categories In Banking Crisis, Economic history
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Hugh Rockoff on what the US learned from WW1

Post author By Kevin O’Rourke
Post date October 8, 2014

The latest on the VoxEu series on the economics of World War 1 is available here.

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Avner Offer on World War 1

Post author By Kevin O’Rourke
Post date September 20, 2014

The latest in the VoxEu series of articles on the economics of World War I is written by Avner Offer, whose classic book on the subject I can thoroughly recommend. The article is available here.

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The economic consequences of WW1 in Britain

Post author By Kevin O’Rourke
Post date August 28, 2014

Nick Crafts provides the latest instalment in the VoxEU series on the economics of World War 1, here.

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