Online Resources

• Oral Histories of Economics (OHE) Project

• Economists’ Papers Archives at Duke University: see description and link at the Center for the History of Political Economy’s website
• Economists’ Papers (Royal Economic Society): guide to archival sources for British and Irish economists over the period 1750 to 2000
• Cambridge University Archives: Janus catalogue
• Harvard University Online Archival Search Information System (OASIS)
• Italy – Economists’ Archives: Archivio Storico degli Economisti (ASE), of the Società Italiana degli Economisti (SIE)
• Jeremy Bentham:
  • “Bentham Project” at the University College London and the recently released vol. 1 of “The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham” (open access)
  • Transcribe Bentham: initiative of the Bentham Project at UCL to digitize for open access Bentham’s manuscripts (access them through the Transcription Desk)
• John Rawls Papers (Harvard University)
• Marshall Library Archives (University of Cambridge)
• Princeton University Rare Books and Special Collections
• Rockefeller Archive Center
• U.K. – British Library: manuscripts and archives
• U.K. – The National Archives
• U.K. and Ireland – Consolidated online catalogs (COPAC)
• U.S. – National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (U.S. Library of Congress)
• U.S. – Presidential Libraries
• Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library catalog

• AKAMAC E-text Links: list of authors with links to some of their works
• Archive for the History of Economic Thought at McMaster University
• ATHENA e-texts and pictures, by Pierre Perroud: texts (novel, poetry, theatre, essays, philosophy, history, correspondence, etc.) by classic French authors, and mineral database and formulas
• The Avalon Project (Yale Law School): offers digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government (from the ancient period to the present)
• Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics archives
• Early English Books Online (EBBO-TCP): text creation partnership (TCP) between the University of Michigan Library and the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library Digital Systems and Services
• Economics in the Rear-View Mirror – archival artifacts from the history of economics, by Irwin Collier
• Federal Reserve Archives, USA: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research’s (FRA-SER) mission is to safeguard and provide easy access to economic history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System. It includes online archives of former chair-men and committee reports
• Frank P. Ramsey Papers at the University of Pittsburgh
• Herbert Simon Collection at Carnegie-Mellon University
• Hoover Institution digital collections: economics
• Intellectual History Archive, University of St. Andrews (Institute of Intellectual History): a digital repository of papers from eminent intellectual historians
• Internet Library of Early Journals: 18th and 19th century British journals (project concluded in 1999)
• Jeremy Bentham: Transcribe Bentham, an initiative of the Bentham Project at UCL to digitize for open access Bentham’s manuscripts (access them through the Transcription Desk)
• “Making of America”: digital library at Cornell (mostly northern American journals/books) and at Michigan (mostly southern American journals/books)
• Marx-Engels Internet Archive
• Marxists Internet Archive
• Milton Friedman Archives (Hoover Institution)
• Piero Sraffa: online materials are available at Cambridge’s finding aid, and you can check the blog “Heretical Sraffa” for the recent additions to this collection
• Rockefeller Archive Center
• Roy Harrod: The Collected Interwar Papers and Correspondence of Roy Harrod, electronic edition (by Daniele Besomi)
• University of Michigan Survey Research Center: Timeline
• U.K. Parliamentary Papers
• U.S. – Department of Defense – Defense Technical Information Center
• U.S. – Federal Reserve System History: a website with main highlights of the history of the Fed

• The Economic Historian: a blog featuring articles on economic history, the history of economic thought, and the new history of capitalism
• Economic Principals, by David Warsh
• Economics in the Rear-View Mirror – archival artifacts from the history of economics, by Irwin Collier
• Ether Wave Propaganda – History and Historiography of Science, by Will Thomas and Christopher Donohue
• History of Economics Playground (Redux), by a group of historians of economics
• Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET): History of Economic Thought Collective Blog
• Lars P. Syll‘s blog
• Marshall Library (University of Cambridge) blog
• The Undercover Historian, by Béatrice Cherrier

• Courses Online:
  • “Great Economists: Classical Economics and Its Forerunners”, Marginal Revolution University (online educational platform)
  • “An Introduction to the History of Economic Thought” (in Spanish; MOOC, University of Zaragoza, Spain)
• Course Materials:
  • Check the materials collected by the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University
  • Online Text and Notes in History of Economic Thought by the Economics Network (University of Bristol)
  • Adam Smith Works: a portal by the Liberty Fund with biographical information on Smith and animations, access to his published works, video series, and educational resources
• Course Lectures:
  • Humberto Barreto (DePauw University):
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Inequality and the Market System
    • The Invisible Hand and the Market System
  • Mark Thoma (University of Oregon; the Economics Network): 17 lectures on the history of economic thought captured in 2010

There are a number of journals that are of interest to those working on the history of economics. These include not only other history of economic thought journals, but also economics, philosophy, science studies journals. The Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP) has produced an impressive annotated list of such journals that you can find here.

For videos produced by HES check our “HES videos” page. Below you find a list of other videos:

• Documentaries, Movies, TV Shows, Programs:
  • Antonio de Viti de Marco (1858-1943): documentary by Manuela Mosca (University of Salento)
  • The Age of Uncertainty: a 1977 television series (12 episodes) about economics, history and politics, co-produced by the BBC, CBC, KCET and OECA, and written and presented by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith
  • The Ascent of Money (PBS), by Niall Ferguson
  • The Bellman Equation (SnagFilms): chronicles writer-director Gabriel Bellman’s decade-long odyssey of research and discovery of the life of his grandfather, the mathematician Richard Bellman
  • Commanding Heights (PBS) – The Battle for the World Economy
  • Free to Choose: a 1980 PBS television series featuring the Chicago economist Milton Friedman (10 episodes)
  • Keynes vs. Hayek rap battle, “Fear the Boom and Bust”: episode 1 and episode 2
  • Masters of Money (BBC): Keynes (episode 1), Hayek (episode 2), Marx (episode 3)
  • Michal Kalecki: a Polish documentary with English subtitles (2012)
  • Walter Heller x Milton Friedman (1970s): “Why Economists Disagree?”
  • Women in Economics: a series of short videos highlighting “the groundbreaking and inspiring work of female economists” (by the Marginal Revolution University)

• Interviews:
  • Conversations with History: includes over 600 interviews with economists, economic historians and other intellectuals. Created in 1982 and produced by Harry Kreisler at the University of California at Berkeley
  • Craufurd Goodwin on the founding of the journal History of Political Economy (HOPE) and his career (by Harro Maas and Tiago Mata): video 1 and video 2
  • Economics: Past, Present and Future: an interview project co-produced by of Goldsmiths Economics (University of London) and the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF), it contains interviews with academic economists in the U.K. on the past and the present state of economics, as well as new directions to economics
  • Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib) videos, by the Liberty Fund: of two kinds, intellectual portraits and videos from its symposia and panel discussions
  • Masters of Finance: 14 interviews with leading economists who were important in the history of finance (2014 videos produced by the American Finance Association)
  • MIT Infinite History Project: an oral history project celebrating MIT’s 150th anniversary, including interviews with MIT economists

• Talks and Conferences:
  • American Economic Association (AEA) videos of its annual meetings
  • Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University: has several videos of talks and events
  • “Economics, History and the Blogosphere: a roundtable on the history of recent macroeconomics”: with Pedro G. Duarte, Steve Ambler, Kevin Hoover and Marcel Boumans (held at the 2014 HES Meeting in Montreal) –a blog post at INET with the video is also available
  • Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) videos
  • International Symposium on the History of Economic Thought (FEA-USP, Brazil):
    • 2009 edition: with presentations by Michel De Vroey, Pedro G. Duarte, Wade Hands, Kevin Hoover, Robert Gordon, Robert Leonard, Philip Mirowski, including a closing roundtable
    • 2013 edition: with presentations by Pedro G. Duarte, Kevin Hoover, Judy Klein, Esther-Mirjam Sent, Mark Setterfield and Stephen Turnovsky
  • Mary Morgan: “What if? Models, fact and fiction in economics” – British Academy, Oct. 13, 2016
  • Mini-Symposium on the History of Postwar Economics (FEA-USP, Brazil, Aug. 2010): presentations by Marcel Boumans, Mary Morgan and E. Roy Weintraub, including a closing roundtable
  • The Phillips Machine Demonstrated by Allan McRobie (University of Cambridge): demonstration as part of the Alumni Week, September 2010
  • Roundtable: Editors talk about The Economist – Conference “175 Years of The Economist“, organized by Tiago Mata
  • “Rosa Luxemburg: The Accumulation of Capital 100 Years Later” by Raphaële Chappe
  • “Economics Education Reform and the History of Economics” HES Special Plenary Session recording from the 6th bi-annual ALAHPE conference held at the University of the Andes in Bogota (Colombia), November 30, 2017

• “The Bloomsbury Group”, by Frances Partridge, BBC World Service radio program (“My Century”, 1999)
• Frances Partridge and the Bloomsbury Group, “Last of Their Generation”, BBC World Service radio program (“My Century, 1999)
• Frank Ramsey Radio Portrait, “Better than the Stars” (BBC, 1978): written and presented by D. H. Mellor (University of Cambridge); audio and transcription available
• “Mr. John Maynard Keynes”, BBC World Service radio program (“Omnibus”, 1996) with contributions by John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman
• “Mandeville’s View of 18th-Century Economics”, BBC radio 3 program (“Free Thinking”, 2014)

• Before Economics: series about the history of political economy, focusing on the British case, hosted by Ryan Walter
• Ceteris non Paribus: The History of Economics Podcast by a group of young scholars
• EconTalk: podcasts with interviews by Russ Roberts
• “A History of the World in 100 Objects” – British Museum & BBC podcasts
• “In Our Time”, BBC Radio 4: series of many and varied episodes, including the following

• “Keynes Vs. Hayek”, BBC Radio 4 (on the 2008 crisis)
• Planet Money: the economy explained: podcast series by NPR, including one episode on “The Invention Of ‘The Economy'”
• Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: a History of Economics Podcast co-hosted by Scott Scheall, Gerardo Serra, and Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak

• Adam Smith Works: a portal by the Liberty Fund with biographical information on Smith and animations, access to his published works, video series, and educational resources
• A Bibliography of Translations of Economic Literature up to 1850, compiled by Kenneth E. Carpenter
• Economists’ Portraits of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University
• EH.Net: website and mailing lists that provide resources and promote communication among scholars in economic history and related fields
• Famous Economists’ Grave Sites (by Malcolm Rutherford)
• The History of Economics Website (by Gonçalo Fonseca)
• History of mathematics: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive (University of St Andrews, Scotland) & Mathematics Genealogy Project (North Dakota State University)
• Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET): they also have a Young Scholars Initiative
• Les Classiques des Sciences Sociales (UQAC, Canada): access to classical texts of social scientists
• Libraries around the world: a directory
• Mailing list on history of economics of Spanish (and Portuguese) scholars
• Marx 200: a website for the celebration of Karl Marx’s bicentenary (2018), the centenary of the Russian Revolution (2017) and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Das Capital (2017)
• NEP-HPE: report on new working papers in the areas of History and Philosophy of Economics
• The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed., edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume (Palgrave Macmillan)
• The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• THESIS: online guide, in several languages, for writing a thesis in history of economics (by Manuela Mosca and Daniela Parisi)