Scholarly Resources

Visitors to the Center will have at their disposal a large array of scholarly resources.

Fellows will join an active community of scholars which includes the existing history of economics faculty at Duke (Craufurd Goodwin, Roy Weintraub, Neil De Marchi, Kevin Hoover, and Bruce Caldwell), as well as scholars in related disciplines at Duke, those from area universities who regularly participate in our programs, and other Fellows.

To support the teaching mission of the Center, Junior Fellows are encouraged to participate in a space available basis in the many courses offered at Duke in the history of political economy.

The Duke University Libraries includes the William R. Perkins Library and its seven branches, as well as separately administered libraries serving the schools of Business, Divinity, Law, and Medicine. An open stack system with collections containing over 5 million volumes, as well as manuscripts, public documents, archival holdings, and an array of electronic resources, it is ranked among the top ten of private university library systems.

Of particular interest to historians of political economy are the archival holdings contained in the Economists' Papers Project at Duke, which comprises the correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, and other work products of more than forty distinguished economists, mostly from the 20th century, including the academic papers of seven Nobel Prize winners as well as such notables as Carl Menger and Oskar Morgenstern.

Duke also has an extensive microfilm collection, which includes among its holdings the Goldsmith’s-Kress Library of Economic Literature. This microfilm library, which contains more than 50,000 early publications in economics and history through about 1850, is a combination of material from the Goldsmith's 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. Another important resource on microfilm is the F.A. Hayek collection, which duplicates the holdings of the Hayek Archives at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

The Duke Library System is part of the Triangle Universities Library System, which includes the libraries of such nearby campuses as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (whose collections exceed 5 million volumes) and North Carolina State University (whose collections exceed 3.6 million volumes).