Resources
for Economic Historians
Some key international sites include:
EH-Net
The premier meta website for economic history
H-Business
Net
A valuable resource for business history
WWW Virtual Library for Economic
and Business History
There is very extensive information to be found at the WWW Virtual
Library for Economic and Business History including a list of the
key organizations for many nations
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
A database of working papers, journal articles, and software components.
Also see NEP: New Economics Papers - an announcement service which
filters information on new additions to RePEc
into edited reports
Active national and international societies and organisations include:
International Economic
History Association
Economic History Society
Economic History Association
Association of Business
Historians
The Business History Conference.
The European Business History Association
The Business
History Society of Japan
Canadian Network for Economic
History
Socio-Economic
History Society (Japan)
National Bureau of Economic Research
Online Data Sets, Working paper-Books-Research Family searches,
and Publication details.
International Institute of Social
History
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) is one of the
world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field
of social history in general and the history of the labour movement
in particular.
Some key Australian and New Zealand sites include:
Guide to Australian Business
Records
An excellent site on business archives in Australia is:
Directory
of Archives in Australia
National Register of Archives
and Manuscripts in New Zealand
The
Noel Butlin Archives – Australian National University
A nationally significant collection of primary source material relating
to business and labour. The NBAC holds archives of industrial organisations,
businesses, professional associations, industry bodies and the labour
movement.
The
University of Melbourne Archives
The business collections include the records of wholesalers and
retailers, factories and foundries, solicitors and architects, along
with the records of some of Australia's largest mining companies.
National statistics
Statistics New Zealand
Australian Bureau of Statistics
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