Research Guides: Eco 384: Seminar, U.S. Economic History: Library Resources

Introduction to Research for ECO 384

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History by Melvyn Dubofsky (Editor);
Publication Date: 2013
Background information about the concepts, institutions and organizations, events, and individuals that have shaped the history of business, labor, and economics from the origins of what later became the United States in an earlier age of globalization and the expansion of capitalism to the present.
A New Economic View of American History from Colonial Times To 1940 by Jeremy Atack; Peter Passell (eds)
Call Number: https://davidson.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01DCOLL_INST/19u2smm/alma991022981699705716
Publication Date: 1994
This book asks such questions as: did mercantilism cause the American Revolution?; was slavery profitable?; and what were the causes of the Great Depression?

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America: History & Life
(Time period covered: prehistory to present. Publication coverage: 1964 to present) Citations to journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, and book reviews on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada. Access is limited to six users at a time.
EconLIT
(1969 to present ) Citations to articles from 326 journals; also indexes doctoral dissertations, books, and conference proceedings. Areas covered include economic theory and history, monetary theory and financial institutions, labor economics, and international, regional, and urban economics.
IDEAS / RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
Nearly 400,000 working papers, many of which can be downloaded. From IDEAS at the Department of Economics, Univ. of Connecticut.