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All are welcome to use the resources on this site, provided that they acknowledge the provenance of any materials taken from this website and that they adhere to the restrictions on Copyright © 1999-2012. But, if you are unknown to me, please do not contact me, without first reading my web document on e-mail contacts.

• Current Notices, Announcements, and Answers to FAQ : last updated: Wednesday, 16 May 2012

• My Curriculum Vitae (Résumé): in PDF format; and my publications on the departmental website: most of those published since 1998 are available on-line as PDF files that may be downloaded.

• My Courses in European Economic History: ECO 301Y (1250-1750) and ECO 303Y (1660-1914). Each of these courses is usually offered in alternate years (as indicated below).

  Or go directly to my linked web pages for:

  ECO 301Y: offered in the academic year 2011-12.
  ECO 303Y: not offered in 2011-12, but offered again in 2012-13.

  login to Blackboard's Portal website for my courses (or the one being offered this year).

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• Bibliographies for Essays in European Economic History: for ECO 301Y and ECO 303Y

• Essays in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Economic History, 1250 - 1750: A Compendium of Web Guides for Writing Term Essays in ECO 301Y: instructions, regulations, topics, and bibliographies. (For the academic year 2009 - 2010: not offered in 2010-2011)

• Essays in Modern European Economic History to 1914 (World War I) A Compendium of Web Guides for Writing Term Essays in ECO 303Y: instructions, regulations, topics, and bibliographies, for the academic year 2010 - 2011.

• My Economic History Lectures posted online:

  (1) ECO 301Y1: The lecture notes presented in the academic year 2011-12 will remain online until August 2013.

  - ECO 301Y Power Point summaries of the weekly lectures (also in PDF format). These will also remain online until August 2013.

  (2) ECO 303Y1 : the lectures given in class in the previous academic year, 2010-2011, will remain posted online until August 2012, when they will be removed. They will be replaced by revised lectures presented in the academic year 2012-2013 (posted only after they have been given in class).

• - Online summaries of the ECO 303Y lectures: presented in both PDF Format. and in html format. In the PDF fomat web page, the summaries are presented chronologically, in the order presented, from mid-September to the end of classes in April.

• Distributions and Means of Final Grades in ECO 301Y and ECO303Y: from 2003-2004 to the present, in Excel spreadsheets, one for each of these two courses.

• A note on lecture hours in my economic history courses: and my opposition to recent changes imposed by the Faculty of Arts, in reducing the number of semester weeks from the historic 13 to the current 12 weeks (with only two hours of lectures per week).

• The current status of economics, economic history, and of higher education in North America: some on line commentaries and blogs.

• Other Academic Commentaries and Lectures on Line: by prominent economists and economic historians: including a list of annual winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics

• Journals on Line: chiefly via J-Store, University of Toronto Libraries

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