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We are sorry to have to inform the history of economics community that Craufurd D.W. Goodwin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Economics, died peacefully at his home in Hillsborough, North Carolina ​today ​following a long illness. He was 82 years old. Goodwin was a founding member of the journal […]

The papers of Herbert Somerton Foxwell (1849-1936) are one of the richest private sources of late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century correspondence between economists.  Foxwell’s contacts with his contemporaries in Britain and North America arose from a number of roles that he occupied in a long and active life: as a fellow […]

Below is a transcription of what might appear to be a fairly routine communication between Arthur Cecil Pigou and Sir Frederic Kenyon, Secretary to the British Academy in 1945.  It has some of the characteristics of an ordinary polite exchange, rather like the dinner invitations, expressions of thanks, and apologies […]

‘Many hands make light work. Many hands together make merry work’, wrote the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham in 1793. It is in this spirit that the double award-winning collaborative transcription project, Transcribe Bentham—since its launch in 2010 under funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council—recruits volunteers from around […]

  Susan Howson, whose biography of Lionel Robbins was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011 (ISBN 978-1-107-0024-9), has provided this summary statement of what future researchers will find interesting about the papers of Robbins which, after having been catalogued, will soon be available to readers at the BLPES Archive […]

You can download an electronic copy of the Guide by following the instructions below: Using the right click button on your mouse, click on Economists’ Papers 1750-2000. From the menu that appears choose ‘save target as’ and specify the location where you want to save the E-Guide. Due to the […]

Users of this site might find the following article on the topic of ‘Preserving the Economic Memory‘ of interest, this article appeared in the January 2006 issue of the RES Newsletter.

Cambridge University Press has recently published digital editions of the full 30 volumes of The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes on behalf of the RES. They are available to download online by institutions or as a paperback print copy. Series details here.