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History
 Websites presented in alphabetical order EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History 
 This growing resource "is designed to provide students and laymen with high quality reference articles" about economic and business history. Covers the Industrial Revolution, banking, labor, the Great Depression, and dozens of other topics. "Articles are written by experts ... and carefully edited" by a team of academics. EH.Net is supported by the Economic History Association, whose purpose is "to encourage and promote teaching, research, and publication on every phase of economic history." http://eh.net/encyclopedia/ Topics: Economics Last updated May 7, 2006 Exchange Rates Between the United States Dollar and Forty-one Currencies
This site provides exchange rate data for any year or range of years between the United States dollar and other currencies. Time periods covered vary for different countries, but generally cover the early 1900s to 2007. Also presents descriptions of changes in currency units for countries throughout the world, a list of sources, and links to related sites. Part of the Economic History Service. http://www.measuringworth.org/exchangeglobal/ Topics: Economics, Money, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Travel Last updated Dec 2, 2008 Financial Bubbles
This presentation from 2006 "explores some of the extraordinary similarities between the South Sea Bubble of 1720 and the recent technology bubble." Features a movie, gallery of historical images, related links, and a reading list on the South Sea Bubble, high-tech bubble, and the history of financial speculation. From the Baker Library, Harvard Business School. http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/historicalreturns/fb/ Topics: Economics, Money Last updated May 13, 2008 The Higher Education Academy: Economics Network
This site is designed "to support university teachers of economics in the UK." Features links to teaching resources on subjects and themes such as economic history, game theory, law and economics, agricultural economics, and monetary policy. Also includes links to online data and data sources, articles from a peer-reviewed journal, information about projects and funding, and related material. Some material restricted to UK teachers and subscribers. http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/ Topics: Economics Last updated Apr 9, 2008 History of Economic Thought
A virtual library of partial or complete works by people who have influenced economics. The site covers about 135 people, including George Berkeley, David Hume, Thomas Malthus, Alfred Marshall, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, David Ricardo, Adam Smith, and Thorstein Veblen, among others. From a professor of economics. http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/ Topics: Economics Last updated Apr 27, 2004 History of Economic Thought
Listings on over 500 economists from the 17th century to the present, many with portraits and biographical information. Each economist's entry includes a bibliography of their primary works and commentary. The site has an alphabetical index, as well as arranging economists by schools of thought and topics. Includes many links to related sites. Created by graduate students at the New School for Social Research. http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/ Topics: Economics Last updated Jun 1, 2001 Sunk in Lucre's Sordid Charms: South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection at Baker Library
Exhibit about this series of events in which a "complex network of intersecting financial, legal, political, and cultural factors all contributed to the development of the South Sea Bubble, the eventual collapse of the South Sea Company in 1720, and the financial ruin left in its wake." Features many images, and introductory material that points out the South Sea Bubble's significance in early 21st-century events such as the dotcom bubble. From Harvard Business School. http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/ssb/ Topics: Economics Last updated May 21, 2008 Women & the Economy
This website focuses on the position of women in the economy. Topics includes a brief history of economic thinkers (such as Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes); background about money, banking, debt, economics and war, and feminist economics; women's economic contributions and economic inequality; women and globalization; and economic alternatives, such as barter systems and food buying clubs. Also includes stories about individual women. From the UN Platform for Action Committee (UNPAC). http://www.unpac.ca/economy/index2.html Topics: Economics, Notable People: Women Last updated May 29, 2007 |
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