The International scientific committee on price history was created in 1929 by

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and

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thanks to a five-years grant of the

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. The national representatives were

for Great Britain,

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for Germany,

for the United States,

Earl J. Hamilton Earl Jefferson Hamilton (1899 – 7 May 1989) was an American historian, one of the founders of economic history, and a prominent hispanist. Biography Hamilton was born in Houlka, Mississippi. He was married to Gladys Dallas Hamilton, and had ...

for Spain,

Henri Hauser Henri Hauser (19 July 1866 – 27 May 1946) was a French historian, geographer, and economist. A pioneer in the study of the economic history of the early modern period, he also wrote on contemporary economic issues and held the first chair in e ...

for France and

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for Austria; later came also

Franciszek Bujak Franciszek Bujak (16 August 1875, in Maszkienice near Brzesko – 21 March 1953, in Kraków) was a Polish academic and historian of economic, political and social history of Poland. He served as professor of the Jagiellonian University twice, in ...

for Poland and

Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus or N.W. Posthumus (26 February 1880 in Amsterdam – 18 April 1960 in Bussum) was a Dutch economic historian, political scientist, and professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Posthumus was one of the founders of ...

for the Netherlands; Arthur H. Cole was in charge of finances for the whole project.

Books by the committee

* Hamilton (Earl J.), ''American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain (1501–1650)'', 1934. * Hamilton (Earl J.), ''Money, Prices and Wages in Valencia, Aragon and Navarre (1351–1500)'', 1936. * Hauser (Henri), ''Recherches et documents sur l’histoire des prix en France de 1500 à 1800'', 1936. * Elsas (Moritz John), ''Umriß einer Geschichte der Preise und Löhne in Deutschland vom ausgehenden Mittelalter bis zum Beginn des 19. Jarhunderts'', 3 vol., 1936–1949. * Přibram (Alfred Francis), ''Materialien zur Geschichte der Preise und Löhne in Österreich'', 1938. * Cole (Arthur Harrison), ''Wholesale Commodity Prices in the United States 1700–1861'', 1938. * Beveridge (William H.),
Prices and Wages in England from the 12th to the 19th Century
', 1939. * Posthumus (Nicolaas), ''Nederlandsche Prijsgeschiedenis'', 1943–1964. * Hamilton (Earl J.), ''War and Prices in Spain (1651–1800)'', 1947.

References

* Arthur H. Cole, Ruth Crandall, "The International Scientific Committee on Price History", ''The Journal of Economic History'', 24/3, September 1964, p. 381–388. * Olivier Dumoulin, "Aux origines de l'histoire des prix", ''Annales. Économies, sociétés, civilisations'', 45/2, 1990

* Julien Demade, ''Produire un fait scientifique. Beveridge et le Comité international d'histoire des prix'', Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2018. {{Authority control Historiography 1930s economic history History of science 1940s economic history