Nuno Palma is Professor at the Department of Economics, and Director of the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development of the University of Manchester (UK), also having a research position at Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa. He received his PhD from the LSE in 2016. An economic historian and macroeconomist, he focuses on monetary history and long-run growth. He has received several international awards, including most recently the Stiglitz prize given by the