About this site

Economists Papers is a reference guide to the surviving papers, correspondence and manuscript collections of economists — documenting, for each figure, which archives and libraries hold their records and what those collections contain.

The guide continues a long tradition of locating and cataloguing the personal and professional papers of economists and economic thinkers: letters, drafts, lecture notes, diaries and working materials that survive in university libraries, national archives and specialist repositories. For researchers, historians of economic thought, biographers and archivists, knowing where a collection is held — and roughly what it contains — is often the hardest first step.

What you will find here

Each entry names an economist (with dates) and summarises the known whereabouts of their papers: the holding institution(s), the nature and extent of the material, notable correspondents, and any published guides or finding aids. The directory can be browsed A–Z or searched by name, and a small number of associated documents are preserved alongside it.

How this edition came to be

This edition was rebuilt and preserved from the historical web record after the original site went offline, so that the information remains freely available. Entries reflect the catalogue data as it stood when compiled. Archival holdings do move and access arrangements change, so always confirm the current location and conditions of access directly with the holding institution before planning a visit.

This is a non-commercial reference resource maintained for the benefit of the research community. Corrections and additions are reviewed periodically.