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Economics, Trade & Labor: Texts & Context
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
Independent digital catalogue
OVEIR Historical Economics Library – Public Domain Books on Economics and History
The OVEIR Historical Economics Library offers a curated selection of public-domain works focusing on economics, trade, labor, and history. With 100 books and 117 authors, the collection spans texts on economic theory, historical change, and technological imagination. Categories include Economics, Trade & Labor, History, Empires & Change, and Technology in Imagination.
100 public-domain works117 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
Subject gateways
Explore by Theme
Move through the collection by subject, historical setting and type of source.
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A Guide to Crusades, Knights & Castles
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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History, Empires & Change: Texts & Context
Texts connected with historical lives, social customs, institutions and the worlds in which people lived.
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Technology in Imagination
Works exploring technology, imagined futures, discovery and speculative changes in society and everyday life.
Economics — Editor’s Selection
A closer look
Collection Spotlight
One work and three nearby readings from the current catalogue.
Selected from the current catalogue
A Speech on the Principles of Fi...
This work offers one entry point into the authors, subjects and source types represented in the current catalogue.
View catalogue recordNewly Catalogued by OVEIR
Beer, its history and its econom...
In Economi...
Economics for Helen — Background...
In Economi...
Thoughts on the mechanism of soc...
In Economi...
A history of commerce — Reading ...
In History...
Fifty years in Wall Street — Ins...
In Economi...
How to conduct a small mail orde...
In Economi...
Labour policy—false and true — A...
In Economi...
Salt and the salt industry — Ins...
In Economi...
Routes through the collection
Reading Paths
Four routes into the collection for readers approaching the catalogue with different questions.
Begin with Economics, Trade & Labor: Texts & ContextOpen a focused route to works connected with Economics, Trade & Labor: Texts & Context.Explore A Guide to Crusades, Knights & CastlesCompare authors, source types and recurring questions within A Guide to Crusades, Knights & Castles.Read through History, Empires & Change: Texts & ContextMove from introductory records to related works in History, Empires & Change: Texts & Context.Browse Technology in ImaginationUse this theme as a starting point for nearby catalogue records in Technology in Imagination.
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Catalogue stewardship
Editorial Team
Catalogue Editor
Maintains catalogue records, records source attribution, organizes metadata, assigns categories, prepares editorial context, and reviews submitted corrections for the OVEIR Historical Economics Library.
