Order by:
- Date
- |
- Title
Archive for the History of Economic Thought 
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca:80/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/
A collection of electronic texts relating to the history of economic thought, including original essays and writings from key economists and thinkers such as Marx, Marshall, Hobbes, Ricardo and many others. The archive has been compiled by Rod Hay and is hosted by the University of McMaster in Canada, with a UK mirror site maintained by Tony Brewer of the University of Bristol and an Australian mirror site maintained by Robert Dixon of the University of Melbourne. The texts are indexed under the authors' names.
More details
Books in history of economic thought
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/books/HistoryofEconomic.htm
This list of textbooks on the history of economic thought is provided by Economics Network, part of the Higher Education Academy which supports teaching and learning among the economics community in the UK. Click on a title to view basic bibliographic information, e.g. author, title and ISBN. The listing also provide links to the relevant publishers website, a preview of the content if it is available on Google Books and a link to search for academic libraries that hold the book via COPAC. This excellent list could be a good starting point for finding references. The Economics Network features textbook lists on many other economics subjects
More details
Commanding Heights
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/lo/index.html
"Commanding Heights is a three-part television series and a content-rich companion website. This extensive site offers resources for students, teachers, and the curious public-at-large." It was produced by the PBS, the USA's publicly-funded broadcasting service in 2003. The site provides a user-friendly guide to globalisation, trade and economic development. There is a timeline of key events from 1911-2003, and a storyline of the three two-hour episodes of the TV programme. There are transcripts of thought-provoking interviews with people who are involved with or comment on economics, eg. Naomi Klein in Canada. The Ideas section of the site looks at theories or phenomena like Reaganomics, the British Welfare State, the Chicago School, Marxist economics and Keynesian Economic Theory. The Resources page has a list of websites and a bibliography of books, for further research. An online educators' guide is available on the site, with a short video describing the site's key features. A very good resource for economics teachers.
More details
E.F. Schumacher Society (USA)
http://www.schumachersociety.org/
This is the website of the US branch of the E.F. Schumacher Society. The Society was founded in 1980 in memory of the economist Dr E. F. Schumacher author of texts such as Small is Beautiful, Good Work and a Guide for the Perplexed. The Society is an educational, non-profit organisation that through its work aims to demonstrate that " ... social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues." The site provides access to an overview of the Society and information concerning events, publications, and project activity.
More details
Economics in one lesson
http://www.jim.com/econ/
Economics in one lesson is an introduction to free market economics written by Henry Hazlitt in 1946. The key point of the lesson is that that the long term effects of any policy need to be considered and its effects on all groups of society should be born in mind. This online version of the book is broken down into the lesson itself, 24 chapters where the lesson is applied and a consideration of the lesson after 30 years. The text also contains a preface, endnotes and a note on books (bibliography). The book is made available as part of James's Liberty file collection index.
More details
Economists Papers
http://www.economistspapers.org.uk/
Economists Papers is a Royal Economic Society funded project to make it easier to locate the correspondence of British and Irish economists over the period 1750 to 2000. It aims to update and provide an electronic version of a finding aid originally published in 1975 as Economists' Papers 1750-1950; A Guide to Archive and other Manuscript Sources for the History of British and Irish Economic Thought. Users can browse the guide by name or perform a keyword search, in order to access listings of the correspondence of each economist. The website also details the plans to expand and update the guide, as well as giving further information on the project.
More details
Economists' Papers Project
http://guides.library.duke.edu/content.php?pid=49944
The Economists' Papers Project from Duke Universitys Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library is an ongoing program to preserve the papers of distinguished economists. The papers of more than forty significant economists have been donated to the library. This physical archive offers a valuable resource to researchers in the history of economic thought, particularly those interested in twentieth-century economic thought These collections contain some correspondence, notes and drafts of major works, plus personal biographical material in some cases. Economists featured include Jesse Chickering, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Homer Jones, Oskar Morgenstern, Kenneth Arrow, Robert Solow, Franco Modigliani, Carl Menger and Sidney Weintraub.
More details
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09672567.asp
The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought is a peer reviewed journal published by Taylor and Francis. It is "entirely pluralist and non-partisan with regard to subjects and methodologies - it does not subscribe to any particular current of thought, nor relate to any one geographic zone". Four issues are published per year. There are detailed instructions for authors of articles, and contact details for editorial staff. Contents and some abstracts can be viewed, but for full-text access, users must subscribe.
More details
European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET)
http://www.eshet.net/
This society is an organisation for academics, whose aims are to promote teaching and research in the history of economic thought in Europe, with respect to various traditions and languages, to investigate innovative methods in teaching, and to forge links with national economic societies and organisations for the history of economic thought inside and outside Europe. This site alerts users to ESHET conferences, publishes a newsletter and lists some publications by its members.
More details
History of Economic Thought
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/
Impressive, very large site on history of economic thought, including a long alphabetical list of historical economists with profiles and further links to original documents on the same server. You can also browse by school of thought - Pre-Classical, Anglo-American, Heterodox Themes, Classical, Continental, and Keynesian. You can examine the same material by theme: there are impressive documents in the categories of Business Cycle Theory, Empirics and Econometrics, Imperfect Competition, Economic Development, Uncertainty and Information, Game Theory and Finance Theory and includes weblinks and references. It is hosted at the graduate faculty of economics of the New School University New York and designed by a Ph.D. student Gonçalo L. Fonseca.
More details
History of Economics Society
http://historyofeconomics.org/
The History of Economics Society was set up in 1974 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Its purposes are: to promote interest in and inquiry into the history of economics and related parts of intellectual history; to facilitate communication and discourse among scholars working in the field of the history of economics; to disseminate knowledge about the history of economics. The Society now has an international membership of some 450 individuals. There is an annual conference and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. There is an email list for discussion and dissemination of information. The site includes information on publications, forthcoming conferences, directory of members, a list of archives and other sites of interest.
More details
Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought
http://society.cpm.ehime-u.ac.jp/shet/shet.html
The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET) was set up in 1950 to promote the study of the history of economics and the history of social and economic thought. Meetings are held across Japan and at a nationwide level as well - full details are given here. It publishes the Annals of the Society for the History of Economic Thought, and the site provides links to its contents, along with further information about the Society, a membership application form, its newsletter and links to branch activities. The site is available in both English and Japanese language versions.
More details
John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/keynes.htm
This excellent resource, taken from the economic history website, Schools of Thought, traces the life and thought of the leading economist John Maynard Keynes. It looks at his life connection with King's College Cambridge and his editorship of the Economic Journal. Throughout the text, there are links to related websites - books, other economists, economic theories and schools of thought. There is a bibliography of his main works, and a list of links to other useful sites. A valuable reference source, which is written in a clear style.
More details
Keynes and Australia
http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2000/2000-04.html
This 72-page research discussion paper (nos. 2000-04) from the Reserve Bank of Australia, was authored by Donald J. Markwell and published in June 2000. Initially it was presented as a paper at a seminar at the Reserve Bank of Australia on 18 September 1985. The paper looks at the " ... various interactions between John Maynard Keynes and Australia ... [it] ... provides a fascinating insight into that period of huge economic and social turmoil from the end of World War I to just after World War II when Keynes died." The full-text of the paper is available in PDF.
More details
Library of Economics and Liberty
http://www.econlib.org/
The Library of Economics and Liberty "is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty. It offers a combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought." This site features authoritative editions of the classics in economics, journal articles, links to key economics databases, reading lists and annotated bibliographies, and links to other websites of interest. Material for the site is selected by an independent advisory board, whose details appear on the site. It includes articles, hot topics, data and the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (CEE), a guide to economics related terms. It is also host to EconLog, an economics blog and EconTalk a regular podcast show featuring interviews with economists and those shaping economic policy. The Library is hosted by Liberty Fund, a private, educational foundation in the USA which encourages the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Users can sign up for email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feeds.
More details
London School of Economics Hayek Society
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/lazanski/hayek/index.htm
"The aim of this LSE-based student organisation is to defend classical liberalism and free market economics. It is a society for the mutual exchange of ideas, and is named in honour of Nobel Laureate Friedrich von Hayek, who lectured at the London School of Economics from 1931 until 1950." They welcome participation from any students interested in the organisation. They hold discussion groups, mini-conferences, publish a journal (ama-gi) and produce an online booklist.
More details
Ludwig Von Mises Institute
http://www.mises.org/
The Ludwig Von Mises Institute is a think tank and research institute focussed on "classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics, working in the intellectual tradition of Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)". The site contains a large selection of links to papers and other resources by or about Ludwig Von Mises, including the full text of Human Action: a treatise on economics by Von Mises, and various annotated links for the history of economic thought. It also features daily updates, a blog, Mises Radio for podcasts, and teaching materials aimed at students. The Institute is also responsible for publications such as the Journal of Libertarian Studies, the Mises Review and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics.
More details
Review of Austrian Economics
http://www.gmu.edu/rae/
This Review of Austrian Economics is the official journal of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, which aims to advance the ideas of the economists Menger, Mises, and Hayek, exponents of the Austrian School. Articles seek to either promote the development of Austrian economics, or to promote analysis of current economic issues from an Austrian perspective. Contents and abstracts can be freely viewed, but a subscription is necessary for access to full-text articles.
More details
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics (SDAE)
http://it.stlawu.edu/sdae/
The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics aims to advance the ideas of the economists Menger, Mises, and Hayek, exponents of the Austrian School. Some examples of members' publications can be read on the website. This is a membership society, which holds meetings, encourages young economists and has links to its members' home pages. A journal, The Review of Austrian Economics, is published by the society.
More details
The Monetarists
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/schools/monetar.htm
Am introduction to all the famous economists who were advocates of monetarism. There is a description of each person and many other links to monetarism sites or to sites about the people listed. Examples of names are John Locke, Milton Friedman and Irving Fisher. Bibliographies of their major works are also given. This is part of the History of Economic Thought Website which is hosted the graduate faculty of economics of the New School University New York.
More details
Victorian economics : an overview
http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/econov.html
A useful collection of articles, tracing economic history and thought during the reign of Queen Victoria. This is part of a project funded by the National University of Singapore. There are links to sites on general economics, wages, cost of living, classical economists, their opponents, and the industrial revolution. Each link leads to an information page written by a lecturer, eg. "How Victorians invested Capital", "Thomas Robert Malthus", "Adam Smith's Laissez-Faire Policies".
More details
Order by:
- Date
- |
- Title
