Economic History:Team
From Marteau
The [The Marteau Early 18th-Century Currency Converter] has been initiated and programmed by Olaf Simons and Matthias Böhne, Munich in 2004.
Several participants helped the project with their expertise as Historians of Economics:
- Paolo Malanima (Department of Economic History at the Università Magna Graecia di Catanzaro/ Institute of Studies on Mediterranean Societies) contributed several tables of [Prices for Several Agricultural Goods, Pisa 1670-1730].
- Şevket Pamuk (Department of Economics, Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History in Istanbul) gave the information for the conversion tools needed to include the Ottoman Empire and offered the articles on [Money (Ottoman Empire)|Coins and Currency of the Ottoman Empire] and Prices and Wages in the Ottoman Empire, 1469-1914.
- Nuno Valério (Department of Social and Economic History, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa) supervised the construction of the Tools for Portugal's money.
Special thanks go to
- Daniel Bächtle, http://www.javarea.de, for the startpage script.
- The Bank of Japan, Insititute for Monetary and Economic Studies for the kind permission to quote visual materials they provided with their series of "Short Essays on Monetary History Contained in Monetary and Economic Studies".
- John Dunnlink (Department of Slavonic Languages, University of Glasgow) for providing information about Russian 17th- and 18th-century modalities of accounting.
- Sava Guseva, The Russian Numismatic Portal
for information on Russia's coins and the permission to publish her table of Russian coins at Marteau.
- Heinrich Richard Schmidt (Department of Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, Uni Bern) for information on Berne's weights and measures.
