Teach Secondary Magazine V. 13 No.3 Retour à l'édition précédente

As any history teacher will gladly tell you, it can be fascinating to look back on major historical pivot points and sketch out the far-reaching, transformative changes they set in motion.

Observe the 2007/8 financial crisis, for example, and how it went on to shape the economic policies and political upheavals – Brexit, anyone? – of the 2010s. Some shrewder economists did their best to draw attention to those repercussions at the time; most of us will have only come to appreciate its true magnitude some years after the fact.