Encyclopedias & Other Reference Books

Gale Encyclopdedia of U.S. Economic History
Detroit: Gale, 2000 (2 volumes)

Oxford encyclopedia of Economic History.
  New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
  REF HC15 .O94 2003 (5 volumes)

Survey of Social Science: Economics Series
  Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 1991 
  REF HB61 .S94 1991 (5 volumes)

Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics
  Aldershot, Hants, England: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1994 
  REF HB99.5 .E45 1994 (2 volumes)

Biographical Resources on Theorists

Frontiers of Economics: Nobel Laureates of the Twentieth Century
  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002
  REF HB87 .F76 2002 

Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists
  Aldershot, Hants, England : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1992
  REF HB76 .B5 1992

Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
  Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., 2000
  REF HB76 .B535 2000

Great Economists Since Keynes : An Introduction to the Lives and Works of One Hundred Modern Economists
 
Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1985
  STACKS HB76 .B55 1985 

Dictionary of National Biography (British)

American National Biography


Journals Focusing on the History of Economics

History of Political Economy  (HOPE)

Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Library Databases with Full-Text Historical Content (pre-Econlit / 1969)

JSTOR

Periodicals Archive Online

18th Century Collections Online

Early English Books Online

Websites

History of Economic Thought (New School)

Includes profiles of individual economists and their contributions to economic thought, descriptions of "schools of thought", and other essays & surveys on the history of economic thought.

Archive for the History of Economic Thought (McMaster University)

Collects "significant texts in the history of economic thought."

EH.Net (Economic History Services)

Also offers a History of Economics site; an encyclopedia;  "How much is that?" (historical data);  abstracts in economic history, links to economic history websites; and more.

Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
Also in Main Library Reference HC102 .G35 1999
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Also in Print: Main Library Reference HC15 .O94 2003 (5 volumes)