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In Business: Economic lessons from pandemics past

23/04/2020

Economic lessons from pandemics past

BBC Radio 4 - In Business, Economic lessons from pandemics past

What can the past teach us about economies after a pandemic?

John Murphy takes us from the 14th century to the 21st century to see how plagues and pandemics affected economies.

In the 14th century the world was devastated by plague, known as 'The Black Death', in the 20th century a deadly form of influenza struck infecting around a quarter of the world's population. Since then HIV, Ebola and more have stricken nations. With each epidemic and pandemic comes a huge human cost but each also carry an economic cost. In this programme John Murphy visits pandemics past to see what history can teach us about economic cost and recovery. 

Presenter: John Murphy
Producer: Lizzy McNeill

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