Senior Lecturer in Economics, Queen's University Belfast
Dr Chris Colvin is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen's University Belfast. He is an economic historian with research interests in historical banking crises, cooperative organisations, culture and religion, famines and sample selection, patents and innovation, and macroeconomic policy formulation and implementation. He is currently conducting research into the long-run consequences of famines and their associated heightened disease environment, and also on understanding government policy mistakes.
He has published in The Journal of Economic History, The Economic History Review and Business History Review, among others.
Chris holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Bristol, and an MSc and PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is an Associate of The Economics Network and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2019 he spent a research sabbatical at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam.
Coronavirus and Spanish flu: economic lessons to learn from the last truly global pandemic
Mar 15, 2020 16:29 pm UTC| Economy
As news of the global spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) emerged, global financial markets reacted pessimistically and behaved in ways not seen since the 2008 financial crisis. But fully understanding the potential...
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