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Research Institutions
Specialized Research Institutions
Lists of Research Institutions
Research Programs
Specialized Research Institutions
- Academie François Bourdon un Centre d'Archives Industrielles.
- Academy of Management - Management History Division at the Aberdeen Graduate Center of the Florida Institute of Technology. Overview of the collections, newsletter.
- Accounting and Business History Research Unit at the Cardiff Business School. General information.
- African Studies WWW Site of the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Newsgroups, links etc.
- Association Charles Gide pour l'étude de la pensée économique Conferences, list of publications, links.
- Biografie Instituut Institute of Biography.
Biographies have risen in popularity significantly in recent years. Amongst the signs of this increased popularity is the growing number of biographies that have been published as a dissertation. As a response to this development this resulted in the establishment of the Institute of Biography within the University of Groningen in 2004.
General Information. Links.
- Biz/ed at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (Bristol). "A dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers", includes schools, colleges and other educational institutions.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis Time series, economic surveys. Includes also National Income and Product Accounts. Downloadable annual and quarterly data from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis as of 1959, including graphs.
- Business History@Erasmus Business History@Erasmus, Erasmus University Rotterdam, brings together researchers with an interest in the history of business. The goal of this platform is to unite researchers from the schools of History & arts, Business, Economics, Social Sciences and Law in their endeavours to improve our academic knowledge in the field of business history.
- Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology The Center for Black Business, History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology was founded at the University of Texas at Austin in 2002 by Professor Juliet E. K. Walker, who is considered the foremost scholar in African American Business History.
- Center for Business History The Center for Business History at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), was established in 1999 in order to strengthen the historical dimension of CBS research and teaching.
The Center for Business History faculty conducts methodologically and theoretically based research into the historical development of the modern enterprise and its business environment. In this, the enterprise is examined within its economic, political, social, conceptual, cultural and institutional context. The results of the research is communicated to the research community as well as to the public.
- Center for the History of Electrical Engineering of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (New Brunswick, NJ). Finding aids, research guides, newsletter, oral history transcripts.
- Centre d'Etudes interdisciplinaires Walras-Pareto (Lausanne). Overview of the papers of both scholars.
- Centre d'Histoire de la Pensée économique Paris. Offers classic economic texts (Fonds Paulette Taieb), and references to e-texts elsewhere.
- Centre for Business History in Scotland (Glasgow). General information.
- Centre for Business History in Scotland General information; links.
- Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE) at University College London. "To promote the study of interactive learning with a view to providing a new foundational basis for modeling in economics and related social sciences".
- Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Discussion Papers. See especially: Economic History.
- Centre for International Business History at the University of Reading. Home to Business History, the Euro-Business-History Noticeboard, and the European Business History Association.
- Centre for International Business History (CIBH) General information.
- Centre Histoire Economique et Sociale Brussels. General information.
- Centro di studi sulla storia e i metodi dell'economia politica General information, links.
- Centrum voor Bedrijfsgeschiedenis Antwerp. General information.
- Charles Babbage Institute of Computer History at the University of Minnesota. Collections include the Burroughs Corp records. Finding aids, links to related sites.
- Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA). Home to the Othmer Library of Chemical History (general holdings information) and the Beckman Center, a historical research institution.
- Departamento de Historia Económica e Instituciones Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Campus de Getafe, Madrid, GETAFE (MADRID) ESPAÑA.
General Information, Working Papers.
- Department of Economic History at the UMea University. General information.
- Department of Economics UCDavis. Working Papers Working papers by among others Peter Lindert and Gregory Clark.
- Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. Publications
- Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville Working Papers Series
- EconHist, Seminar für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Universität München Links and downloadable texts by staff members.
- Economic History Department The Economic History Department, Lund University School of Economics and Management. General information.
- Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen (Göteborg). General information and list of publications.
- ETLA Research Institute of Finnish Economy
- Federal Reseve Bank of Minneapolis Research Archive The Research Department's online archive offers all papers and reports published internally since its inception.
- Fernand Braudel Center at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Engaged in "the analysis of large-scale social change over long periods of historical time". Newsletter, papers, table of contents of its journal, Review.
- Financial and Economic Data Center (FEDC) The FEDC is part of the Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin. General information, Discussion Papers online, links and conferences.
- Forschungsstelle für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Ostmitteleuropas Bibliography, Conferences, Publications and Journal.
- Groupement Européen de Recherches en Finances Publiques GERFIP GERFIP (The European Group for Research in Public Finance) is a scientific interest group created by (among others) the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris-Sud. GERFIP’s goal is to emphasize research in Public Finance and develop a network of researchers in this field, both in France and abroad.
- Historia Económica e Social at the University of Coimbra.
- Historisches Institut. Abteilung für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte (WSU) Universität Bern.
General information, publications
- Human Sciences Research Council Information on ongoing research programs.
- ICS - Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa Information about the Institute; online library catalogue; an overview of the collections in the Arquivo de História Social; access to several research databases.
- Institut d'Histoire de l'Industrie (Paris). An independent institution created by the French Ministry of Industry to stimulate historical research on business and industry.
- Institut d'histoire, Université de Neuchatel Bibliographies (see also 'archives'): Construire un chemin de fer, Entreprises et entrepreneurs en Suisse aux XIXe et XXe siècles and Aspects de l'impérialisme financier; publications.
- Institut für Firmen- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Hamburg
- Institut für Unternehmensführung (ifu) General information. The Institute houses a collection of annual reports of over 2000 German and foreign companies. List of holdings online available.
- Institut für Weltwirtschaft at the University of Kiel. Home to the Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftwissenschaften ZBW.
- Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Vienna. Publications, research, Links.
- Institut für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Unternehmensgeschichte (WISOG) (Graz). General information.
- Institut Mémoires de l'Edition contemporaine (Paris). Detailed overview of its collections on the French publishing industry in the 20th century.
- Institut pour l'Histoire de l'Aluminium (Paris). Bibliography, pictures, table of contents of the Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Aluminium.
- Institute for Research in Economic History at the Stockholm School of Economics (EHF). Publications, Heckscher biography, Links.
- Institute of Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (MANDA) MANDA is committed to excellence and innovation in education and research to advance knowledge on mergers, acquisitions, and alliances. The institute has a lot of expertise on the history of Mergers & Acquisitions in the US and Europe.
- Institute of Migration Institute of Migration aims to promote and carry out migration and ethnic research and to encourage the compilation, storage and documentation of material relating to international and internal migration in Finland.
- Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo.
- Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa at the University of Lisbon. Extensive general information.
- International Rice Research Institute (Manila). Access to the 100,000-volume IRRI Library (online Web catalog, a searchable bibliography on rice, and useful links).
- Istituto internazionale Francesco Datini (Prato). On pre-industrial economic history. General information.
- Istituto Luzzatti (Rome). Cooperative studies. Brief overview of the collections.
- Laboratoire de Démographie historique (Paris). Research projects, publications. Maintains the site of Histoire & Mesure.
- Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. Articles by Brock, electronic versions of 18th century pamphlets on the topic.
- London School of Economics, Economic History Department General information, useful links and working papers.
- Ludwig von Mises Institute General Information, Conferences, Journals, Papers and Texts.
- Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris). Program information of a major coordinator of French and international historical and social science research.
- National Bureau of Economic Research Cambridge, MA.
- National Economic Institute Closed 2002.
- Ohara Institute for Social Research at Hosei University. Japanese labour links, various bibliographies on industrial relations, other online resources.
- Section for Historical Economics, Evolution, and Entrepreneurship (SSHE) The research at SHEE, Stockholm School of Economics, applies economic theory and econometrics to study historical events and long-term economic development, as well as to understand how micro- and macroeconomic factors influence various entrepreneurial activities in society.
- Sociaal Historisch Centrum voor Limburg General information.
- Software History Center (Westport, CT). A project to collect "information about the history of software, the people who created it, and the companies that marketed it starting from its beginnings in the 1950s".
- Sozio-ökonomisches Panel at the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Berlin). "A representative longitudinal study of private households in the entire Federal Republic of Germany" (1984-1997). Newsletter, bibliography etc.
- Statistics Bureau Director-General for Policy Planning & Statistical Research and Training Institute
- Statistics Iceland Statistics Iceland is the National Statistical Institute of Iceland and was founded in 1914.
- Telecommunications History Group Catalogs, newsletter.
- Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO), maintains Economic Data Service.
- Zentrums für historische Sozialforschung Das Zentralarchiv archiviert Primärmaterial (Daten, Fragebögen, Codepläne) und Ergebnisse empirischer Untersuchungen. Das ZA ist ein Institut der Kölner Gesellschaft für Sozialforschung e.V. (KGS).
Lists of Research Institutions
Research Programs
- Amsterdams Centrum voor de studie van de Gouden Eeuw General information, research, activities.
- Baltic Connections The Baltic Connections project is an international effort to uncover the archives of the common past of the countries around the Baltic Sea during the period 1450-1800.
- Civil Services and Urban Communities Research project Civil Services and Urban Communities The Netherlands 1500-1800.
- Commodities of Empire Project Joint research collaboration between the Open University's Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and London Metropolitan University's Caribbean Studies Centre. General information, publications, events.
- Economic History Initiative Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) started an initiative in economic history to make the CEPR the focal point for cliometric research in Europe. The aim of the Economic History Initiative is to facilitate interaction between quantitative economic historians and the rest of the economics profession in Europe.
- Economy and Society of the Low Countries in the Pre-industrial Period This research program, sponsored by the N.W. Posthumus Institute, unites Dutch and Flemish historians studying the economy and society of the Low Countries before 1850. On the site: program and papers.
- Entreprises françaises sous l'Occupation allemande (1940-1945) Activities, bibliography, publications.
- EURINDIA EURINDIA is a 36 months project co-funded by the European Commission under the Economic Cross Cultural Programme. This project will focus specifically on the history of the economic relations (commercial, industrial, sea and land trade, etc.), in particular the history of map drawing and textile commerce from XVth century to present time.
- Global Economic History Network (GEHN) The GEHN Network, the product of cooperation across 4 partner institutions (the London School of Economics, the University of California (Irvine & Los Angeles), Leiden and Osaka Universities), promotes research, teaching and co-operation in the innovatory and rising field of global economic history.
Working Papers, Conferences, Journal.
- Global Price and Income History Group (GPIH) A Research Team measuring Prices, Incomes, and Economic Wellbeing around the World before 1950.
- Groningen Growth and Development Centre General information, list of publications and working papers (some downloadable).
- Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche permanent sur l'Industrie et les Salariés de l'Automobile at the Université d'Evry-Val d'Essonne. Newsletter, Actes du GERPISA, book reviews, and bibliographies.
- Histcom Banken Commission on the policies of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein, the Länderbank Wien and the Zentralsparkasse Wien during the period 1933 to 1946.
- Indonesian Economic History Project This project at the International Ibnstitute of Social History, Amsterdam is a concerted effort of several researchers at different universities and research institutions. The aim of the project is to reconstruct the national accounts of Java (1815-1939) and of Indonesia (1900-2000) and to analyze the long-term evolution of the economy of Indonesia in this period. The reconstructed national accounts will serve as the prime source of information about the economy's development over time. This provides an analytical framework for a more thorough understanding of changes and discontinuities in the economic performance of Indonesia.
- Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris LAMOP
CNRS Université Paris.
- Monies, Markets, and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900 Local, Regional, National and International Perspectives. A new research group supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Research carried out within this project will
concentrate on the copper-based monies of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and late Choseon Korea. The focus is on the concrete conditions of coin production, starting from the mining and smelting of mint metals, their transport to the mints, to the casting of coins on the one hand, and on problems related to the functions and exchange rates of different means of payment, the structures of the financial systems as well as the cultural meanings of money on the other.
- N.W. Posthumus Instituut (Groningen), the Netherlands Research Institute and Graduate School for Economic and Social History.
- Network of European Economists Online NEEO NEEO is building on experiences gained with the Economists Online Project. It will promise to provide far more new content and new information services of value to the researcher.
- Price History Group Department of History, University of Copenhagen. Research and sources for the history of prices and wages in Denmark 1660-1800.
- Program in Early American Economy and Society PEAES In conjunction with its new Program in Early American Economy and Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia is augmenting, cataloguing, and conserving its collections related to economy and society-including the areas of commerce, business, banking, technology, and other fields - and is also compiling a regional survey of related scholarly resources.
- Research Group Quantitative Economic History The Economic History group (and the Workshop in Quantitative Economic History) started in 1970. The workshop was one of the first history research groups in Belgium to focus on the reconstruction of quantitative data on the Belgian economy and to implement contemporary economic techniques to historical research.
- Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Surveys examining the health and economic welfare of the Russian Federation.
- StudieCentrum voor Onderneming en Beurs (SCOB) SCOB is a research centre at the University of Antwerp (UA) with unique historical archives.
- Tensions of Europe. Technology and the Making of Europe This network has explored and defined ways to study transnational European history with a focus on the roles of technology as forces of change. In Phase 1, the networking phase, Tensions of Europe brought together a group of close to 200 scholars with shared interests from many disciplines and 17 countries. Phase 2 was the transition phase during which the Transition Committee formulated an Intellectual Agenda and participants formed collaborative research groups and programs. Tensions of Europe has now entered Phase 3, the research phase. Network scholars are pursuing their research and some will do so by taking part in the ESF EUROCORES Programme Inventing Europe.
- The Price History Group, Department of History, University of Copenhagen
- University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) UTIP is a small research group concerned with measuring and explaining movements of inequality in wages and earnings and patterns of industrial change around the world.
- Unternehmensgeschichte = Histoire des entreprises Depuis plusieurs années, l'histoire des entreprises connaît un important développement. En Suisse, plusieurs historiens ressentent la nécessité de regrouper les forces.
- Urban Society in the Low Countries IUAP-Network - Urban Society in the Low Countries from the Late Middle Ages to the XVIth Century. Participants: Ghent University (UGent) - University of Antwerp (UA) - University of Leiden - Free University of Brussels (ULB) - Royal Library (KBR).
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