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SUMMARY:Austerity\, free trade\, and the deficit: the mid 19th century ori
 gins of a British obsession - Professor Boyd Hilton (Faculty of History\, 
 Trinity College)
DTSTART:20121023T164500Z
DTEND:20121023T181500Z
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CONTACT:Prof Jane Chapman
DESCRIPTION:The German people's experience of hyper-inflation in 1923 is o
 ften 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\nob
 sessions\, most notably in their long-held fundamental belief in the moral
  superiority of 'free trade' in both its wide and narrow senses.\nIn this 
 talk\, Boyd Hilton examines a mid nineteenth-century crisis that was not a
 ltogether unlike the present one\, and shows how various contingent politi
 cal\, social\, and ideological factors came together to\nenthrone 'free tr
 ade' in the British imagination.\n
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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