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. The academic years are listed from the most recent, on the left of the spreadsheet.

I can now report that I will indeed be offering ECO 303Y in the next academic year, 2012-2013.

From the News York Times Opinion Pages, for 1 April 2012, on "Room for Debate: Rethinking How We Teach Economics", read the view of Prof. Robert Skidelsky: Study Economic History. A member of the British House of Lords, and author of Keynes: The Return of the Master, he is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at the University of Warwick.

The Course Websites and Lectures: for ECO 301Y and ECO303Y

• ECO 301Y course website: The Economic History of Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1250 - 1750. The only course that I presented in the academic year 2011 - 2012; but not offered in 2012 - 2013.

• The lectures for ECO 301Y and the Power Point summaries (slides): will both remain online for another year, until August 2013 (if I am able to offer this course again, in 2013-14).

• ECO 303Y course website: The Economic History of Modern Europe, to 1914 (World War I). This course was not given in the academic year 2011 - 2012, but it will be offered again in 2012 - 2013.

• The lectures for ECO 303Y : will be left online until the end of August 2012. They will be replaced by revised lectures presented in the academic year 2012-2013 (only after they have been given in class).

• This Time Chart of European Economic History, 1300-1750 provides the thematic outline of the entire course (by topic and half-century periods) on one page. This time-line chart allows you to see what happened in each economic sector or area, by half-century periods; and also to relate changes in one sector with changes in the other economic secotrs in each time period. You may take this sheet with you in writing the final examination next April. Note: there is no such time-chart for ECO 303Y.

• Course links on Portal's Blackboard: You will find them by logging into Portal, and clicking on the link for this course. Most of the menu items (listed in the column on the left side, under the course name) are external links to my Home Page.

OTHER NOTICES:

Economics Course Evaluations for 2010 - 2011: Summary Statistics.

REPEC [Research Publications in Economics]:

• The Top 20% of Institutions and Economists in Canada: this REPEC listing, is based a complex formula of working papers online and online publications, downloads, and citations. The listing for the top 20% of authors in Canada follows the listing of Canadian departments and other Economics-related institutions in Canada .

• To find the name of an institution or of an economist, in Canada, use the standard search mechanism: CTL F.

• John Munro: Research Profile and Academic 'Works': working papers and publications, listed in REPEC.

My own Publications, Working Papers, and Research Data online

• My complete list of publications can be found online, on this Department of Economics website. Most of my publications that have appeared from 2000 are available, from this site, as accessible PDF files, which may downloaded and printed.

• MPRA: The Munich Personal RePEc Archive provides an alternative source of my publications similarly available online, in PDF format. The are listed in alphabetical order (but the word "The" is under the letter T).

• My online Working Papers and On-Line Publications:

  (1) This web page provides access to all my Working Papers (posted since 1998 -- the last fourteen years), while also indicating which ones have been published.

  (2) Those publications with PDF file offprints can also be found in the Department of Economics website for faculty publications, with this link for my own online publications. The phrase, highlighted in blue, stating: (Freely available) is the URL link to the PDF file of the publication.

• My Research Data On-Line: I have now added all my current research data, most of it from overseas archives, in Excel files, for Textile Prices in the Late-Medieval and Eary Modern Low Countries and England. This will (presumbly) be of interest only to fellow academics and their graduate students, here and abroad. Note that there is a linked web document that explains how these Excel files on textile prices are to be used, especially in terms of quantities (i.e., units of measurement), prices, moneys-of-account, and relative values.

Access to Academic Journals online :

• Journals On Line: Please note that I have revised my online web site for Journals on Line. JSTOR, or the University of Toronto's use of this site, has recently changed all of its web links to the journals whose articles it has placed on line; and I have therefore replaced all the 'dead' (inoperative) web links with the newly revised links for all the JSTOR journals on my web page.

• If you find any other 'dead' web links on this (or any other web page, linked to my Home Page), please let me know about them, so that I may correct the errors.

Some information about my office and the Economics Building: Max Gluskin House

• My office number in the Max Gluskin House, at 150 St. George Street is Room 348, which is located on the south side of the third floor of the original and central building (centre block), known as the Crowther building, after the 19th-century merchant who built and long owned this original house. My office is fully accessible by both our new elevator and by the stairs (located to the right of the elevator).

• The other parts of the new building are: South Wing (same building as before, but renovated, as in the former Economics structure); the West Wing (new: at the back, facing the lane and courtyard); and the North Wing (also new, in the former driveway, facing the fraternity house).

• See also this online document: Max Gluskin House: Building Features

On the Importance of Economic History for the educated layman: for those who value higher education