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Bob Allen

• Why was the Industrial Revolution British?

Nick Crafts

• Competition cured the “British disease”
• The Great Recession: An historical perspective
• A recession to remember: Lessons from the US, 1937–1938
• Want faster European growth? Learn to love creative destruction

Peter Fearon

• A recession to remember: Lessons from the US, 1937–1938

Anne Murphy

• Time and work at the Bank of England
• London’s first financial markets: Private equity and public debt before the South Sea Bubble

Tony Wrigley

• The industrial revolution as an energy revolution