2025-04-02
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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler.
Today I'm chatting with Sheila Ogilvy, who is a historian and an economic historian.
She is currently at All Souls College of Oxford,
formerly of Cambridge University, originally housed from, I believe, Western Canada.
She has a new book out, which is excellent,
and the title is Controlling Contagion, Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to COVID.
Sheila, welcome.
It's pleasure to be here.
The history of epidemics.
When there were earlier pandemics, how large would a GDP decline typically be?
Like how bad were they for economies?
They were really bad for economies.
So first they were bad because people were really frightened
because there was nothing they felt that they could do about it personally.
So they withdrew from the market voluntarily, as it were.