EH.Net operates the Economic History Services web site and several electronic mailing lists to provide resources and promote communication among scholars in economic history and related fields. EH.Net is supported by the Economic History Association and other affiliated organizations: the Business History Conference, the Cliometric Society, the Economic History Society, and the History of Economics Society.

The Economic History Association seeks a new Director for EH.Net, to oversee the operation of the EH.Net website. Robert Whaples, the current EH.Net Director, will step down from this position during the summer of 2008.

This position involves maintaining the website on a server, hiring and supervising a computer programmer to make adjustments to the software required to operate the site, hiring and supervising a person to update the content of the site, interacting with the various committees and editors who provide content to the site, and interacting with the various associations for which the site provides links. It is also an opportunity to add new features and projects that will benefit the economic history community. Recommendations for a successor will be made by the EH.Net Executive Committee.

If you have interest in the position or would like to suggest someone whom you believe will be a good administrator, contact Price Fishback at pfishback@eller.arizona.edu or Alex Field (EHA Executive Director) at afield@scu.edu.

How Much Is That?

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

• Gerald Friedman on Lawrence Richards: "Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture"
• Tim Wright on Morris L. Bian: "The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change"
• Timothy E. Gregory on Angeliki E. Laiou and Cécile Morrisson: "The Byzantine Economy"
• Peter J. Cain on Frank Trentmann: "Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain"
• Stephen Meardon on Istvan Hont: "Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective"

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:

• Forthcoming Reviews in Economic History
• Forthcoming Reviews in Business History
• Forthcoming Reviews in the History of Economics

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

• 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

Social Science History Association Session on Clark, A Farewell to Alms

At the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, held in Chicago, Illinois on November 15-18, 2007, a session was held which was dedicated to Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. A transcript of remarks from the session, taped by David Hacker and transcribed by Susan Wolcott, is now available on EH.Net as well as a response by the author. We invite you to also read Robert A. Margo's review of the book for EH.Net Review.

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.