Economic history is the study of how economic phenomena evolved in the past. This category contains links to sites offering economic and business histories.- Category ID : 427118
Provides scholars, policymakers, students, the media, and citizens with information about the history of American taxation. The project pursues its mission through a program of web-based documentary publication and original historical research.
The site tells stories about the technologies important to the New Zealand economy in the 20th Century. Most of these technologies were identified by the end of the First World War.
An online directory of archives and other repositories of historical corporate records. Includes directory of professional associations for corporate and industrial archivists.
A peer reviewed journal promoting the intellectual exploration of the relationship between economics and morality from both social science and theological perspectives.
An economic indicator crated by economist Arthur Okun and is the unemployment rate added to the inflation rate. It is assumed that both a higher rate of unemployment and a worsening of inflation both create economic and social costs for a country.
Seven decades of Littlewoods catalogues for home shopping in Britain. The social history of Littlewoods mail order business from the early 1930s up to the present day.
A look back at the 1987 stock market crash. Provides a description of the event, charts, and an account of the causes they may have led to the 23% decline.
Online collection of historical documents and memorabilia about annuities, together with a history of annuities and their role in the development of financial markets and retirement planning.
Founded in 1940 to encourage and promote teaching, research and publication on every phase of economic history, and to encourage and assist in the preservation and administration of research materials in the field.
Online exhibit focusing on slavery depicted in money notes issued and circulated in the South during the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction Era.
The governments of the North and the South handled war financing differently. The North had moderate debt while the South created massive debt and hyperinflation.
Speculation, which involved driving up prices on desperately needed consumer goods, was both rampant and roundly condemned in the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
What is money? History of money from barter, coins, precious metals and banknotes to the modern electronic monetary system. Covers important concepts: inflation, gold standard, Great Depression, etc.
A site dedicated to monitoring economical, environmental and international crises. Containing large base of informational articles, find out everything about the recent and historical crises.
A website featuring accounts of infamous historic stock market crashes, economic bubbles and financial crises from tulip mania to the dot-com bubble (late 1990s).
History of the U.S. Consumer Price Index which was started in the high inflation days of WWI. It includes information about each decade since the CPI was created.
A 512 page document presented by the Mises Institute. In this volume, Murray Rothbard presents a comprehensive history of money and banking in the United States, from colonial times to World War II.
The Bell Library makes history come alive through its collection of rare books, maps and manuscripts that focus on trade and cross-cultural interaction before ca. 1800.