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Welcome to r/EconomicHistory! Economic history is the study of economic phenomena in the past. This is a subreddit for any journal articles, news articles, discussions, questions, or other media pertaining to this discipline. If you are looking to become more familiar with key topics in economic history, please consider reviewing our Reading List!

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Economic map of the Philippines (1924)

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13716 days ago

The US ran persistent trade deficits for most of the 19th century, just as it does today. Yet, trade deficits did not inhibit US industrialization. The persistence of trade deficits may be related to the willingness of foreigners to hold US financial assets. (Fed Reserve St. Louis, February 2020)

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100321 days ago

Bretton Woods looks increasingly like a high watermark in international cooperation. It can take much credit for enabling a 1944 Europe ravaged by the unimaginable brutality of two world wars and a global depression to live in relative peace for 80 years. (Conversation, June 2024)

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92424 days ago

The US has previously embraced a robust industrial policy - including tariffs - to bolster the development of specific industries. But Trump's approach introduces new risks because it does not focus on innovation and threatens to fragment the global economy into rival blocs. (Time, April 2025)

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83123 days ago

When slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1833, the government decided to compensate slaveholders. Financiers in London had a considerable role in raising this money and redistributing it to investments elsewhere by means of the securities market. (Tontine Coffee-House, April 2025)

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75020 days ago

In May 1981, Washington and Tokyo agreed to limit the export of Japanese automobiles to the US. American consumers were left to bear the burden of the resulting increase in auto prices, a national net welfare loss of over $3 billion. (S. Berry, A. Pakes, J. Levinsohn, June 1999)

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75022 days ago

Located in central England, Coventry became a hub for bicycle production in the 19th century after sewing machine manufacturers diversified. Expertise with bicycles laid the basis for carmaking later on (Coventry Telegraph, December 2018)

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6615 days ago

Although researchers initially believed that farming itself led to wealth inequality, inequality emerged about 5,000 years after the introduction of agriculture with the adoption of ox-drawn plow and the establishment of proto-states. (Phys.org, May 2025)

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66012 days ago

British trade in the late 1930s

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Internal migration to the American west or south, often accompanied by infrastructure improvements, sparked repeated credit booms. In 1830s Chicago, a bubble sent the price of lots purchased for $100 at the start of the decade to tens of thousands of dollars by 1836. (Tontine Coffee-House, May 2025)

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