We asked:

• What can we learn from the response to the Spanish Flu?
• Are we going back to the inflation of the 1970s?
• How does the Technological Revolution compare to the Industrial Revolution?
• Are central banks and governments pursuing MMT?
• What happened to the Bond Vigilantes?

Philip Coggan writes the Bartleby column in the Economist. He started a life in journalism when they used typewriters. He has experienced seismic change in journalism, and his latest book, “More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy” provides a wide historical perspective with which to reflect on the current economic challenges