From the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in Boston, with materials supplemented from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the Sterling Library at Yale University

Primary Source Microfilm's Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature is the single most comprehensive and valuable collection in existence for researching the literature of economics and business dating from the last half of the 15th century to the early 20th century.

The collection combines two pre-eminent collections--the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London, England and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

It comprises almost 60,000 pre-1850 monographs and 466 pre-1906 serials. Reflecting the scope of academic pursuit from the last half of the 15th century to the early 20th century, it is an unparalleled resource for political and social historians, as well as for researchers in economic theory and history.

The material follows the same method of classification employed in the past by the Goldsmiths' catalog. The categories are as follows:

• Trades and Manufactures--practical manuals and technology in general
• Commerce--shipping, piracy and smuggling
• Colonies--all subjects relating to particular colonial areas (but not usually those concerning the relations between the mother country and the colonies)
• Finance--coinage, numismatics and titles
• Transport--transport technology
• Social Conditions--public order, public utilities, debtor and creditor (except discussions from a financial standpoint), penology, criminology, trade unions and temperance
• Slavery--the movement to abolish the slave trade and its impact on the economies of America, England and other countries
• Politics--political theory
• Socialism--theoretical works on the subject
• Miscellaneous--national defense, local government, subjects not relevant to the social sciences (e.g., theology) and the unclassifiable
• General--treatises on sociology and political science as well as economics, topography and the theoretical and general aspects of emigration
• Agriculture--fishing, mining, surveying and landed property in all its aspects except tithes
• Corn Laws--their agricultural, financial and commercial aspects
• Population--observations on the state of population in a variety of countries

• Mercantilism
• Usury
• European Colonial expansion
• Demographic patterns in 18th-century England
• The financial background to the French Revolution
• The textile industry and technological advances
• Early business and technical education
• Kameralwissenschaft
• Irish-English relations--economic, political and social foundations
• Commerce in Italy
• Scholastic economics
• Poverty and the work ethic
• The physiocrats
• Life in factory mill towns
• Pre-Marxian socialism
• Chartists
• Utopian socialism
• Bank of England; Bank of France; Bank of the United States
• Tariff Controversy

Segment I: Monographs 1460-1800
Units 1-34
1,673 reels

Segment I Supplement: 1460-1800
Units 35-41
356 reels

Segments I and II Supplement: 1517-1850
Unit 85
70 reels

Segment II: Monographs 1801-1850
Units 42-75
1,718 reels

Segment III: Serials to 1850
Units 76-84
453 reels

Supplement to Segment I to III: Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, (Volume V: Additions to the Printed books, Periodicals and Manuscripts to 1850)
Unit 86
46 reels

Machine-Readable Cataloging: Segments I-II
OCLC WorldCat; Segment I: 28,953 titles and Segment II: 28,485 titles
Supplement to Segments I-II (Unit 85): Item-level MARC cataloging records are available for purchase from Primary Source Microfilm (1,019 titles)