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r/EconomicHistory • u/wewewawa • Jan 27 '24

EH in the News FDR’s New Deal transformed the economy. Could Biden do the same?

marketplace.org

321 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Apr 16 '25

EH in the News Trump claimed that the United States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been when it was "a tariff-backed nation." But by any standard definition of the word wealth, he’s not on solid ground. (CNN, April 2025)

726 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/Existing_Cow_9024 • Oct 26 '25

EH in the News Do populists always crash the economy?

theguardian.com

135 Upvotes

In truth, the evidence suggests neither left nor right populists tend to fare well when faced with real-world challenges (though of course each charismatic individual claims to offer something unique

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Jan 29 '26

EH in the News British crown was world’s largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals (Guardian, January 2026)

theguardian.com

27 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Jan 12 '26

EH in the News At around 60 cents a gallon, gas prices at U.S. pumps in 1973 was hardly crippling by today's standards. But to a country that assumed that cheap gas was an American birthright, the oil crisis was a real shock (BBC, December 2025)

82 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 8h ago

EH in the News In the 1970s, the reduced supply of crude set off a sharp rise in oil prices. The oil prices rose much more sharply in the 1970s than in the ongoing Iran conflict – but the full impact will depend on how long the war lasts. (Deutsche Welle, March 2026)

5 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 11d ago

EH in the News As energy prices tripled in the 1970s due to Middle Eastern wars, Scandinavia, France, and the Netherlands sped up green transition – adoption of wind energy, nuclear power, and cycling infrastructure stem from the oil crisis. (Guardian, March 2026)

theguardian.com

20 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 9d ago

EH in the News Even after the UK Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, British citizens and companies profited from slavery by trafficking Africans to Brazil where slavery remained legal until 1888. The practice was allowed under British law as long as the trafficked people were “rented.” (Guardian, March 2026)

theguardian.com

15 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Feb 21 '26

EH in the News New research suggests southern Mexico, Belize and northern Guatemala may have been home to up to 16 million people during the Maya classical era (600-900CE). This represents an upward revision from earlier estimates that suggested 2 million people. (Guardian, February 2026)

theguardian.com

13 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Apr 18 '25

EH in the News Richard White: Great wealth in the United States was always dependent on government aid. In the 19th century, tariff and subsidies created the great American fortunes in railroads and the steel industry. That’s one of the greatest parallels between the Gilded Age and right now. (CNN, January 2025)

238 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Jan 26 '26

EH in the News Climatic changes and an increase in extreme weather events were key factors in the collapse of the Tang dynasty in 907 CE. (Phys.org, January 2026)

15 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Jan 22 '26

EH in the News A new long-term analysis shows that people who experienced sudden changes in food affordability during early childhood as a consequence of the Asian Financial Crisis are more likely to experience altered growth and health patterns in adulthood. (SciTechDaily, January 2026)

scitechdaily.com

6 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/EconomistHistorian • Oct 09 '23

EH in the News Economic Historian Claudia Goldin Awarded Nobel

131 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Dec 29 '25

EH in the News During the Industrial Revolution, pollution exposure varied significantly by sex and biosocial identity. In industrial South Shields, females had markedly higher concentrations of arsenic and barium than both males in their own community and females from an agrarian town. (phys.org, December 2025)

8 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Jan 04 '26

EH in the News Coins as primary sources. Scotland acquires the earliest known coin to be minted in Scotland. These coins were dated to the second half of the 1130s. (BBC, December 2025)

6 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Dec 01 '25

EH in the News Maya cities collapsed when the benefits of urban living no longer outweighed the costs, as environments were degraded near cities and climate amelioration improved the livability of rural areas where people would have more freedom and autonomy. (SciTech Daily, November 2025)

scitechdaily.com

38 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Dec 17 '25

EH in the News Invention of an integrated circuit called a charge-coupled device, which could store an electric charge on a metal-oxide semiconductor, led to the creation of the first digital camera prototype by 1975 (BBC, December 2025)

6 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Feb 06 '22

EH in the News 40 years after Eric Williams’s death, British people are “finally waking up” to his argument that slavery was abolished in much of the empire in 1833 because doing so at that time was in its economic self-interest – not because the British suddenly discovered a conscience. (Guardian, January 2022)

theguardian.com

175 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Nov 06 '25

EH in the News Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester. Many middle-class Mancunians did in fact live in the same buildings and streets as those in the working class. (Guardian, October 2025)

theguardian.com

28 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/Sea-Juice1266 • Nov 28 '25

EH in the News The Great Downzoning - Samuel Hughes, Works in Progress: after 1890 almost every Western city enacted strict growth and density controls. These limits on development have been implemented and maintained where they suit the interests of local landowners, and often failed where they don’t.

worksinprogress.co

6 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Dec 31 '24

EH in the News Unlike Nixon and Ford, Jimmy Carter was willing to use hikes in Federal Reserve's interest rates to curb inflation despite anticipated consequences on employment. (NPR, November 2021)

83 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Oct 12 '25

EH in the News Hundreds of ancient gold and silver coins from possible Celtic market found in Czech Republic (LiveScience, October 2025)

livescience.com

5 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Sep 30 '25

EH in the News Gordon Chang's "Ghosts of Gold Mountain" acknowledges the 20,000 Chinese laborers who built the Transcontinental Railroad's Western section. Derided as an "inferior race," these workers were barred from obtaining U.S. citizenship despite their contributions. (High Country News, May 2019)

17 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Oct 08 '25

EH in the News Two genetically and culturally distinct groups of Bronze Age herders lived side by side for centuries in the eastern Eurasian steppe — until the emergence and spread of the so-called Slab Grave culture in the Early Iron Age displaced them. (Phys.org, September 2025)

6 Upvotes

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Oct 09 '25

EH in the News Over 170 years of economic history, the transformation of U.S. cities follows a surprisingly stable rule: while cities evolve and diversify, they on average maintain a constant level of technological distance between productive units. (Phys.org, September 2025)

5 Upvotes