Science, Social Sciences, Economics, Economic History
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- History of the first transatlantic cables linking Britain and North America, the socio-economic impacts, famous messages such as the messages from the Titanic, photos, sound and video files, glossary.
- Studying the classics and great books in the context of the history of business.
- Provides essays, databases, and bibliography for those interested in economic history of Spanish & Portuguese colonial America.
- Online exhibits and resources chronicling the role of finance and capital markets in American history.
- Resources around the world in the field of labour and business history.
- Exhibition celebrating the career of North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, Jim Graham served in that office from 1964 to 2000. Documents Graham's career and reveals the positive societal impact of an inspired public official.
- A multi-part, illustrated history of paperback publishing, with special emphasis on the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 soc
- A history consulting firm that helps clients use history to improve strategic planning, marketing, branding, corporate communications, anniversary planning and corporate culture.
- A collection of business articles related to Economic History.
- Lectures in Medieval History, by Lynn Harry Nelson, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
- Provides formula for calculating how much a shilling is worth in today's economy.
- Web directory of organizations, archives, libraries, museums, research institutions and resources around the world in the field of labour and business history.
- The ten oldest companies in the U.S. by Rank.
- Information and scans of over 1100 coins
- A portal of economic principles covering past and current economic theories and theorists.
- Research and lists of historical prices and wage rates.
- Full text of the Charter of the Dutch West India Company, 1621.
- 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.
- Provide statistics to test the idea that the price level is related to the inflow of treasure into the Spanish economy.
- A history of taxation in various parts of the world.
- Supports critical and scholarly discussion, reflection and research in the area of management and administrative history.
- A categorized and annotated list of selected cross discipline information sources for doing research on the history of business. Prepared by the University of Maryland Libraries.
- Chronologies prepared by Barclays Bank Economics Department covering national (UK) and international events of significance to the economy from the last quarter of 1997 through to the present. There are also pages providing the key facts from the 1970s, 1
- More than 100 years of stories, product and brand histories,and photographs are now available online.
- A page edited by Morris Silver devoted to the consideration of unsettled or disputed aspects of ancient economies. (Note: Tripod site with popups.)
- Presents galleries of art, architecture, and history of investing and finance, including editorial cartoons and sketches of buildings.
- A brief history of the growth of housing in the United Kingdom including the economic, political and social history surrounding its development in the 1930's
- This site contains facsimiles of historic corporate annual reports from the Lippincott Library collection at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Provides a forum for economic historians to share information about their works.
- Singapore An essay - recent history (1960-1980)- on the subject of the socio-economic development of the city-state Singapore - socio development
- An online directory of archives and other repositories of historical corporate records. Includes directory of professional associations for corporate and industrial archivists.
- Article discussing the historical value of tulip bulbs.
- 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.
- A synopsis, analysis and a downloadable copy of the Communist Manifesto along with a short biography of Marx and Engels.
- Large resource of histories and stories of American business, including audio and video archives, academic and corporate articles, and "fun facts."
- Indigo, tulips, beaver, and Brazilwood.
- 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.
- The United Nations University website. Provides links to download the World Income Inequality database.
- Learn about historic stock market crashes and other economic calamities.
- The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's online exhibit of historical American Currency
- Merrimack Films was founded in 1983 to produce and distribute films and videos on labor relations.
- Briefly traces the development of products that took 100 years to get from the idea stage to the marketplace.
- Brief history of merchantilism.
- Source of stock market data from North American stock exchanges of the nineteenth century.
- Specializing in information about the paper moneyof the American colonies.
- Devoted to scholarly discussion of business history in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.
- A general review of the historical development of coinage.
- Articles on accounting, money, taxation, and other aspects of economics in antiquity.
- Martha Matilda Harper Biography
- Links to inflation statistics, price indexes, and sources of data on changes in the value of money.
- A collaborative and interdisciplinary research initiative on the subject of the South Sea Bubble, the first great stock-market crash of 1720.
- H-Business is an on-line newsletter for the Business History Conference.
- Shows what a pence, shilling, and pound was actually worth throughout the history of Great Britain.
- A peer reviewed journal promoting the intellectual exploration of the relationship between economics and morality from both social science and theological perspectives.
- 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.
- Covers the history of various areas of business including accounting, capitalism, and finance.
- Money in its social, political, and economic context from the dawn of history to the end of the 20th century.
- The webpage offers information about a research project about the international history of taxation since 1750. The project is based at the University of Cambridge, UK.
- Analysis of the development of the Dutch Economy in the period 1800-1913. Dutch GNP and its components. Historical statistics.
- News about business history research and information about the center.
- Article about the discovery of oil Texas, the development of the oil industry and its economic impact in the early 20th century.
- Brief history of Finnish business and industry.
- 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.
- Published by the FDIC, with statistical information starting in 1934, a list of failed banks, and history of deposit insurance.
- A virtual museum about money in civilization, from antiquity to the present.
- Images of currency of Ukraine, Austria, Brasil, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, USA, Greece, Singapore, and other countries.
- Resources for historians of economic thought provided by EH.Net and the History of Economics Society.
- Provides access to resources for teaching, scholarship and research in the history of economics and economic thought.
- History of the first oil gusher near Beaumont, Texas drilled by Anthony Lucas.
- Information about how Charles Dow devised the now famous stock averages and a chronology of their activity from 1884 to 1995.
- Online exhibit focusing on slavery depicted in money notes issued and circulated in the South during the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction Era.
- An economic history of the 20th Century.
- A timeline of significant events in business during the 20th century from TheStreet.com.
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