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The International Scientific Committee on Price History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Arthur H. Cole  and
Ruth Crandall
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In September 1928, two eminent economists with an interest in price history met and conversed at Hanover, New Hampshire: Sir William Beveridge and Edwin F. Gay. The former was Director of the London School of Economics and the latter, Professor of Economic History at Harvard University. For some time Sir William had been conducting research in medieval English manorial records and had already amassed data on price movements of English commodities. Moreover, he seems to have shared Gay's long-held views that broader research was needed to provide carefully selected and critically handled long homogeneous series of commodity prices and wages for a number of countries.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 1964 , pp. 381 - 388
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1964

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References

1 Mimeographed memorandum, presumably by Sir William Beveridge, dated March 4, 1929; pp. 3 and 4. One set of mimeographed.reports and minutes is in the manuscript division of Baker Library, Harvard Business School; another is in London.

2 Simiand, , “Recherches anciennes …” (Paris: Domat Montchretien, 1932)Google Scholar.