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Austerity, free trade, and the deficit: the mid 19th century origins of a British obsession

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The German people’s experience of hyper-inflation in 1923 is often cited as contributing to a folk memory that even today places limits on what policy makers can do. The British too have had their economic obsessions, most notably in their long-held fundamental belief in the moral superiority of ‘free trade’ in both its wide and narrow senses. In this talk, Boyd Hilton examines a mid nineteenth-century crisis that was not altogether unlike the present one, and shows how various contingent political, social, and ideological factors came together to enthrone ‘free trade’ in the British imagination.

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