Archival Artifacts from the History of Economics
________________________ Earlier Harvard courses on U.S. economic history Links to earlier course material for U.S. Economic History taught at Harvard, 1901-1902 through 1911-12. _______________________ ECONOMICS 2b Course Description 1912-13 [Economics] 2b 2hf. (formerly 6b 2hf.). Economic and Financial History of the United States. Half-course (second half-year). Tu., Th., Sat., at 9. Professor…
One wonders what Professor Seligman s motivation was for asking 32 year old associate professor of business statistics whether statistics was a separate science or a method , but since we only have Frederick C. Mills response, it is anyone s speculation for what Seligman was after. I find the letter interesting because Mills names three contemporary textbooks [ ] The post Columbia. Statistics as a…
In the beginning (of economics instruction) was Economics 1. And the Word was Frank Taussig s at early 20th century Harvard. _________________________ Exams for principles (a.k.a. outlines) of economics at Harvard 1870/71-1911/12 1871-75 1880-81 1890-91 1900-01 1910-11 1881-82 1891-92 1901-02 1911-12 1882-83 1892-93 1902-03 1883-84 1893-94 1903-04 1884-85 1894-95 1904-05 1885-86 1895-96 1905-06…
[M.I.T.] GENERAL EXAMINATION IN ECONOMIC THEORY May 14, 1956 Answer FIVE questions in all. If you have studied mathematical economics you are urged to take at least one, but not more than two questions from Part II. PART I Within the restrictions of static-equilibrium analysis, an increase of demand will normally increase price, whether the [ ] The post M.I.T. General Examination in Economic…
Links to previously posted Chicago prelim exams. _____________________ ECONOMIC THEORY Written Examination for the Ph.D. Degree Autumn Quarter, 1946 Ph.D. Candidates: 4 hours. Answer all the questions. Papers will be taken up after 10 or 15 minutes warning. Define or explain: Elasticity of Demand; point and arc elasticity; income elasticity; cross elasticity. Demand curve; [ ] The post Chicago.…
For the post on the Rockefeller Foundation funded series: The Ethics and Economics of Society, I came across the name of Janet M. Hooks who collaborated with Elizabeth E. Hoyt, Margaret G. Reid, and Joseph L. McConnell, on the volume American Income and Its Use (1954). Because I found relatively little about her through my [ ] The post Illinois. Economics PhD alumna. Janet Montgomery Hooks. 1960…
Harvard professor Francis G. Peabody and his team tried to establish something like a school of social work at Harvard that offered courses covering a great range of economic and social policy. As befitting a Department of Social Ethics the emphasis was on applied ethics, which is something distinct from the interest of a Department [ ] The post Harvard. Social Ethics Courses. Enrollments and…
Arthur Stone Dewing was reborn as an economics instructor in 1911 according to his own account. He went on to become a finance professor at the Harvard Business School. A busy, full and complete life, successful by any metric, and yet the sort of academic that requires a professional historian of economics to go deep [ ] The post Harvard. Corporation Finance. Description, Enrollment, Final Exam.…
In 1911 Harvard economics professor Thomas Nixon Carver published a textbook Principles of Rural Economics that undoubtedly encompassed the content of his course on agricutural economics first taught in 1903-04. Somewhat unusually his book is prefaced with an eight page bibliography. ________________________ Carver s Earlier Courses on Agricultural Economics Links to earlier course material for…
An interesting difference between the final exams for this course is that all the earlier exams included a translate-from-German question or two. This time around the presumed moderate reading knowledge was not put to the test. This picture of the young Gustav Schmoller with his hairless chin reveals what would appear to have been an [ ] The post Harvard. German and French Economics. Description,…