Economics: Economic History Collections

Digital Collections

Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
Visual, manuscript and printed materials sourced from over twenty key libraries and more than a dozen companies and trade organisations around the world about the history of 15 major commodities.

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Making of the Modern World
The most comprehensive and valuable collection in existence for researching the literature of economics and business dating from the last half of the 15th century to the early 20th century. It combines two pre-eminent collections: the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London, England, and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

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New Collections

Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2014
The complete archive (1843-2012) of The Economist weekly newspaper, including fully searchable editorial, advertising, and tabular matter.

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