Does Boom Always Follow Bust?

Four historians consider whether the sudden collapse of the world economy caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will be followed by an equally dramatic resurgence.

'Great activity in Wall Street', published in New York Herald, March 19, 1908. Library of Congress.

For this historian, the next boom feels a long way off

Catherine Schenk, Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford

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