Center for History and Economics

Research at the Center




Current Research Projects

 

Histories of Economic Life/Histories of Economic Thought

The Joint Center for History and Economics supports research on the history of economic life and the history of economic thought, in different periods and places, and from different disciplinary perspectives.

 

Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas

The project, which will be undertaken at Harvard and the University of Cambridge in 2010-2015, is concerned with the history of political and economic thought in a large context of economic, religious, and legal history, and exchanges across long distances in Asia, Europe and the Atlantic world.

 

Energy History Project

The Global History of Energy project is concerned with the historical study of energy use and transformation, and how it can increase understanding of economic, social, and environmental processes in the past. The project also serves as a forum for the historical discussion of energy in all its forms.

 

 

 

The 1907 Crisis in Historical Perspective

The 1907 Project website, developed by Lucy Chen ('11), Bonnie Kavoussi ('11), Kelly Peeler ('10) and Katherine Savarese ('11), with Philipp Lehmann (G-3, History) and Joshua Specht (G-2, History), is now available at:
fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/crisis-next/1907/.

 

 

   

 

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