Economic History in 2025 (opens in new tab)

The past year saw LSE's economic historians address some of the discipline's most enduring puzzles. How do states consolidate control? Can societies escape their geographic destiny? When crisis strikes, how do we measure its human cost? The answers span two books, ten articles, five centuries, and four continents. Books Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropic by Tirthankar Roy (Oxford University Press). The