The Economic History Association owns and operates the EH.net website and mailing lists to provide resources and promote communication among scholars in economic history and related fields. The Economic History Society (U.K.), the Business History Conference, and the Cliometric Society also support the site.

How Much Is That?

This service is now on Measuring Worth, where you can ask questions of comparative value covering prices, purchasing power, earnings, GDP, interest rates, exchange rates and other economic variables. The calculators allow you to convert past values into current values (and vice versa).

Economic History in the Popular Press

Links to recent news articles discussing economic history.

Graduate Programs in Economic History

For the student thinking about graduate school, EH.Net has conducted a survey of graduate programs in Economic History. The replies are presented here.

All-Ohio Economic History Seminars

An online archive of The Ohio State University Department of Economics' All-Ohio Economic History Seminar is now available.

Recent Book Reviews

• Ian Brown on Sean Turnell: "Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma"
• Gerald Friedman on Daniel Sidorick: "Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century"
• Peter L. Rousseau on Peter E. Austin: "Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance"
• Pierre van der Eng on Hiroyoshi Kano: "Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture and the World Economy, 1850-2000: Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State"
• George Selgin on Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds: "Money, Markets, and Sovereignty"

Forthcoming Book Reviews

Following are lists of books in economic history, business history and the history of economics that are under review and will be published on the EH.Net Review electronic list and archived in the Book Review Library:

• Forthcoming Reviews in Economic History
• Forthcoming Reviews in Business History
• Forthcoming Reviews in the History of Economics

Great Books in Economic History

A set of two dozen review essays commissioned by EH.NET that examine books that have had a significant impact on the field of economic history.

Economic History Classics

During 2006 EH.NET published a series of "Classic Reviews." Modeled along the lines of our earlier Project 2000 and Project 2001 series, reviewers were asked to "reintroduce" each of the books to the profession, "explaining its significance at the time of publication and why it has endured as a classic." Each review summarizes the book's key findings, methods and arguments, as it puts it into the larger context and discusses any weaknesses.

International Economic History Association Congress

• XVIth World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 9-13 July 2012
• XV World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 3-7 August 2009
• XIV International Economic History Congress, Helsinki, Finland, 21-25 August 2006
• XIII Congress of the International Economic History Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 22-26 July 2002

Social Science History Association Session on Clark, A Farewell to Alms

At the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, held in Chicago, Illinois on November 15-18, 2007, a session was held which was dedicated to Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. A transcript of remarks from the session, taped by David Hacker and transcribed by Susan Wolcott, is now available on EH.Net as well as a response by the author. We invite you to also read Robert A. Margo's review of the book for EH.Net Review.

Forum Summaries

Summaries of nine forums held on the EH.Res list.

The Birth of a New Social Science Discipline

The Birth of a New Social Science Discipline: Achievements of the First Generation of American Economic and Business Historians — 1893-1974 .
This essay, by Arthur H. Cole, published in 1974 by the Economic History Association, includes biographical information on numerous pioneering economic historians.