Economic History

The term ‘money laundering’ is often associated with mobsters, drug lords and morally dubious executives. But the expression’s first use was far less lawless. 

Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations by Matt García is a human story amid mergers, sales, profits and losses.

Privatisation of Chile’s natural resources was a pillar of Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship.

‘A day in the life’ of the 18th-century Bank of England.

London used to ring with the cries of street sellers. Changes for the city brought changes to their way of life.

Britain has been a high inequality, high poverty nation for most of the last 200 years. 

Women and the birth of England’s stock market.

The introduction of decimal coinage to the UK was a long while coming. But the transition was surprisingly smooth.

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.