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Library of Economics and Liberty: online books and essays
This is an archive of the full text of classic economics and economics-related books, in HTML format. Included are works by Smith, Mill, Malthus, von Mises and many others. All authors have biographical sketches and some have annotated bibliographies. There is a topic index which cross-references passages from these texts and recommends further readings.
The economy on the couch (UK)
This half an hour programme, broadcast on the radio, is available here, in transcript text form. The show has Diane Coyle exploring "the new frontier of behavioural economics, learning what it has discovered about the rationality of choices we all make, from our apparent belief when thinking of pensions that we won't get old, to the way we shop or buy shares. She looks at the work of experimental economists whose laboratory subjects are ordinary people asked to make decisions, sometimes while their brains are scanned to see which bits light up when certain decisions are taken."
Post-Autistic Economics Review
Critical articles on mainstream (neoclassical) economics, and alternatives, including ideas on how to revive and teach disappearing heterodox traditions [eg Post-Keynesianism, Austrian Economics, Marxism, Neo-Ricardianism, Old Institutionalism]. Articles are all non-technically presented, many by prominent economists within and outside the neoclassical tradition. Also background information and news on the 'Post-Autistic Economics Network' and its quest to preserve a non-mainstream curriculum.
History of economic thought website
Impressive, very large site on history of economic thought, including a long alphabetical list of historical economists with profiles and further links to original documents on the same server. You can also browse by school of thought - Pre-Classical, Anglo-American, Heterodox Themes, Classical, Continental, and Keynesian. You can examine the same material by theme: there are impressive documents in the categories of Business Cycle Theory, Empirics and Econometrics, Imperfect Competition, Economic Development, Uncertainty and Information, Game Theory and Finance Theory and includes weblinks and references. It is hosted at the graduate faculty of economics of the New School University New York
The history of economic thought website
The history of economic thought website hosts a set of essays on the history of economic theories, as well as a lot of historical material organised by school of thought and by economist. Hundreds of economists are listed here with biographical and other information.
McMaster archive of documents for the history of economic thought (UK)
This is a bold attempt to gather all material for the study of the history of economics at one site. This includes both primary texts, studies of those texts and of their authors. The search function for the archive may or may not be working, but it is browsable through an alphabetical index of economists.
Great economists and their times
This resource briefly traces the development of the major schools of economic thought through the work of ten important economists. There is a detailed timeline of developments from 1730 to 1980.
A chronology of game theory
This document lists historical milestones in the development of game theory up to the awarding of the Nobel Prizes to Nash, Harsanyi and Selten (1994) and Aumann and Schelling (2005). Entries are short paragraphs within a timeline. It includes bibliographical notes for reference.
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