What have we forgotten about globalization?
Inaugural Lecture of the Professor of Economic and Social History
Almost exactly 100 years ago, John Maynard Keyes described the 19th century era of globalization as ‘unusual, unstable, complicated, unreliable and temporary’. Keynes’ warnings about the threat that economic conflict posed to a lasting peace seemed to come true after the great reversal of globalization in the 1930s. As we seem poised to enter another retreat from open markets, it is appropriate to reflect on what historians have revealed about the fragility of the international economic system and the elaborate, if often hidden, apparatus that supported the return to globalization in the late 20th century.

All are welcome to attend

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the North School, Examination Schools
Date: 14 November 2019, 17:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Speaker: Professor Catherine Schenk (University of Oxford)
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence