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Economics & economists

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Featured Collections

Friedman (Milton) papers: US economist; winner, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Collections contains speeches, writings, correspondence, notes, statistics, printed matter, sound recordings, videotapes, and photographs relating to economic theory, economic conditions in the United States, and governmental economic policy.

Gresham (Harold Dean) papers: US economist. Includes correspondence, writings, memoranda, reports, studies, statistics, and printed matter, relating to American foreign trade policy, and to public finance and trade in Paraguay, Iran, and Afghanistan.

Harper (F. A.) papers: US economist and president of the Institute for Humane Studies from 1965–1973. Collection consists of correspondence, speeches and writings, memoranda, reports, clippings, and other printed matter relating to laissez-faire economic and political theory, and to economic conditions and governmental economic policy in the United States.

Hayek (Friedrich A. von) papers: Austrian economist, Nobel Laureate, and president of the Mont Pèlerin Society from 1947–1962. Collection includes diaries, correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, conference papers, conference programs, printed matter, sound recordings, photographs, and digital word processing files relating to laissez-faire economics and associated concepts of liberty, and especially to activities of the Mont Pèlerin Society.

Heartland Institute collection: National nonprofit research organization dedicated to finding and promoting ideas that empower people, with a mission to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Collection includes serial issues, newsletters, bulletins, reports, and other printed matter, issued by free market and anti-regulatory organizations, relating to environmental and economic public policy issues in the United States.

Institute of Economic Affairs records: British organization promoting free market economic policies. Contains correspondence, minutes, press releases, financial records, conference proceedings, drafts and printed copies of publications, other printed matter, photographs, motion picture film, videotapes, and sound recordings relating to laissez-faire economic theory and associated concepts of liberty, and to analysis of British and international economic policy. Includes personal papers of some members.

Mont Pèlerin Society records: International organization of laissez-faire economists. Includes correspondence, minutes, press releases, financial records, conference proceedings, drafts and printed copies of publications, other printed matter, photographs, motion picture film, videotapes, and sound recordings relating to laissez-faire economic theory and associated concepts of liberty, and to analysis of British and international economic policy. Includes personal papers of some members.

Young (Arthur N.) papers: US economist and financial adviser. Consists of correspondence, reports, studies, statistical summaries, financial statements, press releases, clippings, and ephemeral publications, relating to the European financial crisis following World War I, the work of the Reparations Commission in formulating the Dawes Plan in 1924, and the economic and financial situation in China, 1929-1946.