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My permission is not required to cite or to utilize such personal materials on this website, for one's own personal use,
provided that the URL website source, with my name, is specifically acknowledged.
For the Working Papers listed below, please note the Department of Economics' own Copyright restrictions on their use.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS: see Working Papers, listed below
The Economic History of Medieval and Early-Modern Europe: The Low Countries and England, 1200 - 1600
Industrial and Labour History: with a focus on Textiles
Monetary and Financial History: Money and Prices (including Wages)
My more general interests in economic history, however, extend into modern times -- indeed to the present day; and one of my undergraduate
lecture courses goes into the 20th century (to World War I). As a medieval economic historian, I am cross-appointed to The Centre for Medieval Studies,
at the University of Toronto, and serve on its Steering Committee.
See also the web links to our related Institute:
The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS: at the U of T)
I am also a member of the following academic organizations, whose websites provide useful
resource materials and web-links that are relevant to European economic history:
All of the courses listed below, undergraduate and graduate, are "year courses," indicated by the suffix Y: commencing in early September
and finishing in mid-April. None was given in the academic year 2000 - 2001, because I was on sabbatical leave.
Of the following courses, Eco 201Y1 and Eco 303Y1 will be offered in the following two years, 2001-02 and 2002-03;
Eco 2210Y will be offered only in 2002-03; and Eco 453Y1 will not ever be offered again. Because the University of Toronto
imposes mandatory retirement at age 65, my regular employment with the University will therefore cease on 30 June 2003.
In all likelihood none of these courses will ever again be offered, after that date; and certainly not the graduate course.
Economic History Lectures:
All of my undergraduate lectures will be posted, but in pdf format only; and these postings will be found at the
end of the following sections for ECO 201Y1 and 303Y1, respectively.
They will be posted not as a set, but as individual lectures,
usually on a weekly basis, after each has been delivered in class
(and, if necessary, after further revisions, in the light of class discussion).
ECO 201Y1: The Economic History of Later-Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1250-1750
BIBLIOGRAPHIES:
for essays in undergraduate economic history courses
The bibliography lists and the individual bibliographies, in both short and long versions,
are accessible in both html and pdf formats; but in order to retrieve the individual bibliographies
you must click on the highlighted "List" in the html format only. Only the bibliographies in the
long-format contain statistical and other appendices; and they are best read in the pdf format. Bibliographies in
the short-format, usually in two pages, contain the key readings and a few questions to guide you in formulating
your essays. The second-term bibliographies will not updated/revised until mid- to late December 2001.
Library Catalogue Search Engines: (1)
the new search engine;
and (2) the old version, which is often the more effective choice. If you are searching for
journal titles in the newer UTL search engine, click on the dialogue box (right hand side): Limit Options: (then) All Materials: (then) Journals
Internet Database Service: Quick Search, to be used especially in searching for
relevant journal articles (by author, title, key words) by selecting the data base, in particular EconLit: published by the American Economic Association,
it provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature,
including in particular, for these courses,
The Economic History Review.
Instructions on how to access articles in this journal.
How Much Is That? An Eh.Net calculator to estimate comparative
purchasing power and inflation rates in Great Britain (1660-2000) and the United States (1720-2000).
Social, Economic, and Political Change :
a web-site on 'long term, large scale changes in social, political and economic systems at
the national and international levels.'
All of the following working-papers are presented in pdf format only; and in this format, they may be downloaded, saved to disk, and/or printed out.
See the note above about obtaining Adobe Acrobat Reader software free of charge.
Copyright restrictions on the Department of Economics' Working Papers:
"Copyright to each paper in the archive remains with the authors or their assignees. Archive
users may download papers and produce them for their own personal use; but downloading of papers for any other activity,
including re-posting to other electronic bulletin boards or archives, may not be done without the written consent of the authors."
See:
Working Paper Archive of the Department of Economics and Institute for Policy Analysis at the University of Toronto;
or click on this alternative web-site .
Note: many, if not all, of the following working papers have now been published.
Please consult my List of Publications
before citing these working papers, which remain
permanently part of the department's Working Papers archive, as indicated above.