Goldsmiths' Kress Collection

This collection is a combination of the contents of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Graduate School of Business Administration in Boston.

It amounts to almost 60,000 documents and the full text of all these documents has been reproduced on 4,000 reels of microfilm.

The collection contains works published until 1850 and its interest goes far beyond that of the economic historian. The collection also includes works on usury, demographic patterns in 18th century England, the textile industry and technological advance, Kameralwissenschaft, poverty and the work ethic, pre-Marxian socialism, Utopian socialism, to name but a few topics.

The material is predominantly in English, but there are also texts in French, German and other languages.

All titles in this collection are in the Catalogue . A search for the title "Goldsmiths'-Kress" results in an alphabetical list of all titles in the collection. Each record contains a unique item number with which the pertinent microfilm can be located in the Microforms Room of the Library.