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Economics

Begin your research with resources recommended by the economics subject librarians. Here you will find the key databases, indexes, datasets, and reference works in economics.

Historical

Finaeon
FKA Global Financial Data. To begin, click on the Login Anonymously button. Financial and economic time series data covering 200 countries and 20,000 different data series. Includes data on markets from 1690, exchange rates from 1590, interest rates from 1700, commodities from 1500, and inflation from 1264.

International Historical Statistics
Statistical data from around the world, collected by historians, countries, and international organizations. Provides key economic and social indicators for the past 260 years.
Historical Development - Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC)
Maddison Historical Statistics: Estimates of economic growth in the world between AD 1 and 2010.

Historical National Accounts: The data hub on Comparative Historical National Accounts provides information on GDP, including an industry breakdown for the 19th and 20th centuries.

Modern Times: The Modern Times project analyses the shift in economic leadership from Europe to the United States, in the first half of the twentieth century. To this end detailed benchmark studies have been made of technological competence and economic performance in European countries for three benchmark years (1910, 1935 and 1950) on the level of industrial branches.
Piketty data