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How Much is That Worth Today? - http://www.eh.net/ehresources/howmuch/dollarq.php
Interactive tool to compare the purchasing power of money in the United States (or colonies) from any year to any other year from the 1600s to today. |
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Museum of American Financial History - http://www.financialhistory.org/
Online exhibits and resources chronicling the role of finance and capital markets in American history. |
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History of Economics - http://www.eh.net/
Resources for historians of economic thought provided by EH.Net and the History of Economics Society. |
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History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day - http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/llyfr.html
Money in its social, political, and economic context from the dawn of history to the end of the 20th century. |
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Economic History Association - http://eh.net/EHA/
Founded in 1940 to encourage and promote teaching, research and publication on every phase of economic history, and to encourage and assist in the preservation and administration of research materials in the field. |
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Journal of Markets & Morality - http://www.marketsandmorality.com/
A peer reviewed journal promoting the intellectual exploration of the relationship between economics and morality from both social science and theological perspectives. |
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The Economic History Society - http://www.ehs.org.uk/
The society publishes a periodical and works to promote the study of economic and social history. |
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Annuity Museum - http://www.immediateannuities.com/annuitymuseum/
Online collection of historical documents and memorabilia about annuities, together with a history of annuities and their role in the development of financial markets and retirement planning. |
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American Currency Exhibit - http://www.frbsf.org/currency/index.html
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's online exhibit of historical US currency, with contextual information on the related status of the money system, banking, and the economy. |
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History of Economic Thought - http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/
A repository of links and information on the history of economic thought, from the ancient times until the modern day, designed for those interested in learning about economics from a historical perspective. |
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The Avalon Project : Charter of the Dutch West India Company : 1621 - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/westind.htm
Full text of the Charter of the Dutch West India Company, 1621. |
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Dutch National Accounts, 1800-1913 - http://nationalaccounts.niwi.knaw.nl
Analysis of the development of the Dutch Economy in the period 1800-1913. Dutch GNP and its components. Historical statistics. |
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History of Economics - http://historyofeconomics.org/
Provides access to resources for teaching, scholarship and research in the history of economics and economic thought. |
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Money Museum - http://www.moneymuseum.com/index_english.html
A virtual museum about money in civilization, from antiquity to the present. |
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Economics, Coins and Taxes - http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/economics/index.htm
Articles on accounting, money, taxation, and other aspects of economics in antiquity. |
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Trade Products in Early Modern History - http://www.bell.lib.umn.edu/Products/Products.html
Indigo, tulips, beaver, and Brazilwood. |
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International Exchanges of Ideas about Taxation Since 1750 - http://www-histecon.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/taxation_ideas.htm
A research project about the international history of taxation since 1750, based at the University of Cambridge, UK. |
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Economy Professor - http://www.economyprofessor.com/
A portal of economic principles covering past and current economic theories and theorists. |
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Sears Archives - http://www.searsarchives.com
More than 100 years of stories, product and brand histories,and photographs are now available online. |
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SCETI: Corporate Annual Reports - http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/lippincott/
This site contains facsimiles of historic corporate annual reports from the Lippincott Library collection at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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BPubs.com - Economic History Publications - http://www.bpubs.com/Economics/Economic_History/
A collection of business articles related to Economic History. |
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The US Misery Index - http://www.miseryindex.us
The misery index was initiated by Chicago Economist Robert Barro in the 1970's. It is simply the unemployment rate added to the inflation rate. It is assumed that both a higher rate of unemployment and a worsening of inflation both create economic and social costs for a country. |
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Technological Innovation in New Zealand - http://www.techhistory.co.nz/
The site tells stories about the technologies important to the New Zealand economy in the 20th Century. Most of these technologies were identified by the end of the First World War. |
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Beyond Face Value - Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/cwc/BeyondFaceValue/index.htm
Online exhibit focusing on slavery depicted in money notes issued and circulated in the South during the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction Era. |
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Ancient Economies - http://sondmor.tripod.com/index-html
A page edited by Morris Silver devoted to the consideration of unsettled or disputed aspects of ancient economies. (Note: Tripod site with popups.) |
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Littlewoods Catalogue History - http://www.thecatalogshop.co.uk
Seven decades of Littlewoods catalogues for home shopping in Britain. The social history of Littlewoods mail order business from the early 1930s up to the present day. |
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Brain Bank - The Oldest Companies - http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/CORPORATEADMINISTRATION/OldestCos.html
The ten oldest companies in the U.S. by Rank. |
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1987 Stock Market Crash Page - http://www.lope.ca/markets/1987crash/
A look back at the 1987 stock market crash. Provides a description of the event, charts, and an account of the causes they may have led to the 23% decline. |
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Economic History of the World - http://www.simun.info/ehlog/
A weblog about economic history of the world, together with some history of technology and related entries. |
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The History Mechanics - http://www.geocities.com/historymech/
New classification of an economic crisis: stagflation and overproduction. Virrual money. Flaws of the comparative advantage theory. Laws for evolution of economic and political systems. |
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The Working-Class Owner-Occupied House of the 1930s - http://www.thesis.clara.net
MA thesis by Alan Crisp on the growth of housing in the United Kingdom including the economic, political and social history surrounding its development in the 1930s. |
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Banknotes of Different Countries (In Past and Now) - http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_91.html
Images of currency of Ukraine, Austria, Brazil, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, USA, Greece, Singapore, and other countries. |
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Singapore. Socio-economic development . - http://www.cranendonk.com/singapore.htm
Singapore An essay - recent history (1960-1980)- on the subject of the socio-economic development of the city-state Singapore - socio development |
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History of the Eighties - Lessons for the Future - http://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/history/contents.html
A study prepared by the FDIC's Division of Research and Statistics presents a detailed analysis of the complex combination of causes that led to the extraordinary number of bank failures in the 1980s and early 1990s. |
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Wall Street Museum - http://www.wallstreetmuseum.org
Presents galleries of art, architecture, and history of investing and finance, including editorial cartoons and sketches of buildings. |
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Treasure and Prices in Spain 1505-1650 - http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/spgold.htm
Provide statistics to test the idea that the price level is related to the inflow of treasure into the Spanish economy. |
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Center for International Business History, University of Reading - http://www.reading.ac.uk/business/Research/Centres/bus-CIBH.asp
News about business history research and information about the center. |
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Economic History of Colonial Latin American and Western US - http://www.historydatadesk.com
Site contains data on mining, prices, wages, agriculture, commerce and government that may be dowloaded. Also colonial treasury accounts known as caja accounts. Extensive economic history bibliography. |
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Costs and Wages in Great Britain - http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/7503/greatbritainmoney.html
Shows what a pence, shilling, and pound was actually worth throughout the history of Great Britain. |
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BizHisto - http://www.bizhisto.com
Covers the history of various areas of business including accounting, capitalism, and finance. |
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Slouching Towards Utopia - Old Draft - http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Old.html
An economic history of the 20th Century. |
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Paperback Books - http://paperbarn.www1.50megs.com/Paperbacks/index.htm
A multi-part, illustrated history of paperback publishing, with special emphasis on the United States. |
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Tax History Project - http://www.taxhistory.org/
Provides scholars, policymakers, students, the media, and citizens with information about the history of American taxation. The project pursues its mission through a program of web-based documentary publication and original historical research. |
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Spindletop - http://sln.fi.edu/fellows/fellow2/jan99/spindletop.html
History of the first oil gusher near Beaumont, Texas drilled by Anthony Lucas. |