Welcome to my blog, Economics in the Rear-View Mirror. If you find this posting interesting, here is the complete list of “artifacts” from the history of economics I have assembled for you to sample or click on the search icon in the upper right to explore by name, university, or category. You can subscribe to my blog below. There is also an opportunity to comment following each posting….
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For me a formative experience as a student of the history of economics was to do research in the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University in 1973-74 for my senior essay on the Physiocrats. It was magnificent to sit at a table and have rare old books served to me. I felt like a grown scholar. This led to an addiction to rummaging through used book stores in search of printed highs. I am now a recovering bibliophile who has limited himself to the wonderful Ersatz-Antiquariat of the internet. Analogous to a Google-Street-View junkie, I am hooked on searching for scans of the stuff that are quartered in the rare book libraries of the world.
I have set up a page that I call “The Economics Rare Book Reading Room” where I will be posting links to early editions of classic economics works. I begin modestly with the first two editions of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations that are at the Boston Public Library. I encourage readers of the blog to suggest links to their favorite discoveries of scanned early editions!