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, the Cliometric Society, and the Economic and Business History Society also support the site.
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EH.net Features
- The MeasuringWorth website is independent of EH.Net and is the home to 12 comparators where you can ask questions such the annualize growth rate of 44 historical series, the relative historic value of four different currencies that allows you to convert past values into current values (and vice versa), stock growth, inflation rates, and hypothetical savings and retirement calculations.The site is also home to over 100 historic data sets of GDP, wages and earnings, interest rates, exchange rates, gold prices and other economic variables as far back as 1209.
- 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.
- Recent Book Reviews
- A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism
- Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
- Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States
- Unequal Cities: Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality
- Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism
- Book review archive
- Forthcoming Book Reviews
- 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.
- International Economic History Association Congress
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- XVIIIth World Economic History Congress, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 29 – August 3, 2018
- XVIIth World Economic History Congress, Kyoto, Japan, 3-7 August 2015
- 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
In Memoriam
A tribute to noted Economic Historians:
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