EHE | An Economic History of Europe



	An Economic History of Europe
	Materials, data, examples, debates

Welcome to the EHE website!

This website is for students of economic history of Europe, their teachers, all the academics in the field, and all the people that share an interest in the economic history of Europe.

It aims to provide tools and materials for the study of the economic history of Europe.

This website is linked to the textbook An Economic History of Europe by Karl Gunnar Persson (Cambridge University Press, February 2010): see Support for teachers.

Updates for CHAPTER 8 (.PDF):
Two US senators who made protectionism look counterproductive: Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley.
In 1930, the Smoot-Hawley tariffs increased already high US tariffs to record levels. The timing of the legislation suggests that it was a response to the Great Depression, but it was not. It was rather the final act in a drift towards higher tariffs introduced by the Republican administration in the early 1920s. In a longer perspective it was a return to the tariff policy of the 19th century.
Look for more updates in UPDATES AND SUPPLEMENTS.
In the Data page: New section Focus on Italy, with link to Paolo Malanima's webpage and available datasets

Bruce Campbell's database Three Centuries of English Crop Yields, 1211-1491.

Look at Martin Wolf's Economists' Forum where current economic problems are discussed often in light of the historical record.

Download Power Point of Lecture 10 in the Support For Teachers section.

New link to the Quality of Government (QoG) dataset - Gothenburg University.

Pre-industrial Europe: Malthusian stagnation or early growth? Look at G. Clark's and K. G. Persson's recent papers!
This and other debates in the Topics section.

Available for download - Updated version of Lecture 1.

The "Videos" section provides links to lectures of leading scholars in the field.

Updated 09-05-2012 17:39:08

An Economic History of Europe

Materials, data, examples, debates