EH.Net Features
- How Much Is That?
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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
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- 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:
- Teaching Economic History
- The EH.Teach discussion list has begun a series on Recommendations for Reading (and Re-Reading).
- 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
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- 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.
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