Resource: Brad DeLong on Economic History and Prehistory
Economic historian J. Bradford DeLong has published a roughly edited transcript of his lecture,
Theories of Economic History III: Prehistory, part of the 2026 Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecture in Economic History at All Souls’ College, Oxford.
The lecture may be useful for readers interested in long-term economic development, human social organization, technological change, and the deep historical roots of modern institutions.