All pages with keywords: economic history
Lessons from energy history for climate policy
This paper sought to draw lessons from long run trends in energy markets for energy and climate policy. An important lesson is that consumer responses to energy markets change with … read more »
Seven centuries of European economic growth and decline
This paper investigates very long run pre-industrial economic development. New annual GDP per capita data for six European countries over the last seven hundred years paint a clearer picture of … read more »
The human capital transition and the role of policy
Paper seeks to investigate how industrialised economies managed to achieve the transition from low to high levels of human capital, and goes on to identify lessons for green growth. read more »
Green Growth: Lessons from Economic History Workshop
by the Grantham Research Institute and the Global Green Growth Institute, this joint workshop focused on the lessons from economic history. Recent research papers were presented on aspects of … read more »
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