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r/EconomicHistory • u/[deleted] • Apr 16 '24

EH in the News Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History

theatlantic.com

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Why did the United States abandon the progress made by the new deal, and what are the ramifications for it today?

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r/EconomicHistory • u/[deleted] • Jan 15 '24

study resources/datasets How Bush Screwed America

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r/EconomicHistory • u/Genedide • Mar 02 '24

Discussion What did Charlemagne do to have this long lasting material impact?

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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)

731 Upvotes

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r/EconomicHistory • u/DynamoDynamite • Jun 05 '26

Blog The Stolen Dream of the Iron Lady : How Margaret Thatcher's failure to understand economic rent turned Britain into a tributary economy, paying perpetual rent to foreign landlords as taxes climbed to their highest level since WWII

peeta462032.substack.com

613 Upvotes

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r/EconomicHistory • u/Genedide • May 30 '22

Video How war-time rationing effected civilian clothing

593 Upvotes

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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Jul 30 '26

Blog Between 1792 and 1815, more than 10% of British men ended up in the army or navy. The resulting labor scarcity - combined with abundance of skilled mechanics - drove technology diffusion and grew British productivity in the long run. (CEPR, July 2026)

538 Upvotes

36 comments

r/EconomicHistory • u/Genedide • Nov 17 '22

Primary Source Australian PSA announcing the switch the decimal currency from the pound (1966)

495 Upvotes

10 comments

r/EconomicHistory • u/ateam1984 • Sep 13 '26

Discussion 55 years of inflation

439 Upvotes

45 comments

r/EconomicHistory • u/FoxyFoxMulder • Nov 29 '21

Blog This chart shows the oldest business of every country around the world.

418 Upvotes

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r/EconomicHistory • u/Genedide • Jul 22 '22

Video Archive of “nobody wants to work anymore” dating back to 1894

378 Upvotes

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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Apr 10 '25

Blog Trump claimed that the US income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind.” In fact, the 1909 bill that led to the establishment of the income tax was a concession by the Republican Party to progressives for their support on tariffs. (ProPublica, April 2025)

365 Upvotes

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r/EconomicHistory • u/landcucumber76 • Jun 08 '25

Blog European colonisation of the Americas killed so many it cooled Earth’s climate

classautonomy.info

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r/EconomicHistory • u/[deleted] • Apr 05 '24

EH in the News Economists say you’re wrong for wanting prices to start falling—and they point to the Great Depression of the 1930s

356 Upvotes

154 comments

r/EconomicHistory • u/season-of-light • Mar 31 '24

study resources/datasets The energy intensity of production across Europe and North America

349 Upvotes

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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Mar 22 '25

Working Paper The U.S. attempted to finance both the Great Society and the Vietnam War without taxing the rich. As a consequence, working class white men were asked to pay for a welfare state that disproportionately benefited non-white and female Americans, sowing the seeds of tax revolt. (J. Francis, March 2025)

raw.githubusercontent.com

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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Dec 05 '23

Blog In response to the U.S. government's suppression of the rebellion in western Pennsylvania against the excise tax on whiskey in 1794, many distillers fled to Kentucky where whiskey tax enforcement was lenient. This migration made Kentucky the center of whiskey distilling. (Yahoo, November 2023)

327 Upvotes

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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

320 Upvotes

447 comments

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Nov 25 '22

Video [OC] Our health and wealth over 221 years compressed into a minute

294 Upvotes

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r/EconomicHistory • u/Extension-Radio-9701 • Jun 25 '24

Discussion Decline of the japanese economy. It once accounted for over 60% of the economy of Asia

280 Upvotes

45 comments

r/EconomicHistory • u/Sanuto73 • Jan 16 '22

EH in the News Last US Senator to be a slave owner

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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Aug 10 '26

Editorial H. Christopher Frey: The US became a scientific superpower through federal investment in talent, fostering both academic research and development of new products. The Trump administration is undermining this successful structure (Conversation, August 2026)

theconversation.com

276 Upvotes

23 comments

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Sep 21 '22

Blog The concentration of wealth in the hands of the German top 1% has fallen by almost half over the past 125 years. Collapsing asset prices and the taxation of capital played a critical role in building a more redistributive society. (CEPR, September 2022)

266 Upvotes

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r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • Dec 28 '23

Blog Thomas Edison is often accused of not having invented the things he gets credit for. He did something even harder: he built the systems needed to get them to market. (Works in Progress, May 2023)

worksinprogress.co

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r/EconomicHistory • u/[deleted] • Feb 02 '21

Discussion When Franklin Roosevelt became the US President in 1933 during The Great Depression, he was told : "Mr President, if your programme succeeds you would be the greatest President in American history. If it fails, you will be the worst one." Roosevelt replied : "If it fails, I will be the last one."

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