This may not be immediately responding to the query, but a group at the 
Scottish Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME) have just completed a 
Nuffield Foundation funded pilot to explore architecture and design of 
an online resource to aggregate online access to recorded materials in 
the history of economics. First results of the pilot are available as a 
SCEME Working Paper which we are happy to share (should also be 
available here by the end of the month:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/business/research/researchcentres/sceme/ )

In the course of this project and thanks to the feedback received by 
numerous colleagues, we have identified a significant amount of 
privately held recordings (interviews, lectures etc), as well as 
institutional archives, which it would be useful to pool in this way.

We are currently preparing a number of follow-on projects seeking to 
step-wise implement such a resource, and would welcome hearing from 
others pursuing similar initiatives.

Matthias Klaes




On 21/10/11 11:03, Dr Robert Anthony Cord wrote:
> Dear all
>
> The British Library is currently engaged in a major project which will
> collect the oral histories of 200 eminent British scientists, previously a
> major gap in the effort to understand the development of British science.
> I can find no equivalent in economics, the closest arguably being Ross
> Emmett's Chicago Economics Oral History Project. Is there anything else
> out there and what are the views of the list on this method of research?
>
> All the best
>
> Bob