# economic history (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 7 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover economic history. Page: Feed: --- ## [Great ad](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/26/great-ad/) _2026-08-26 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ This is a very good ad. With the likely government of the left needing a four way coalition, one can only imagine how many of the nine taxes they’ll need to implement to fund all their promises. The post Great ad first appeared on Kiwiblog. Great ad ## [The Future of Climate Science with Roger Pielke, Jr.](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/26/the-future-of-climate-science-with-roger-pielke-jr/) _2026-08-26 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ This week we cover unemployment data, stadium subsidies, and how Americans feel about the U.S. economy right now. Our interview is with climate scientist and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Roger Pielke, Jr. We talk about climate science, academic politics, fossil fuels vs. renewables, and the future of energy policy. The post The Future of… \[…\] ## [Fanta and the Third reich](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/26/fanta-and-the-third-reich/) _2026-08-25 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ Prior to the outbreak of the second world war, Coca-Cola’s only unqualified success on the international scene was its bottling operations in Nazi Germany. Sales records were being set year after year in that venue, and by 1939 Coca-Cola had 43 bottling plants and more than 600 local distributors in that country. Fanta originated as a result of difficulties importing Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi \[…\] ## [Do Minimum Wages Help Worker in Poor and Low-Income Families?](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/25/do-minimum-wages-help-worker-in-poor-and-low-income-families/) _2026-08-25 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ We provide the first direct estimates of the effects of minimum wages on low-wage workers in families at different points of the distribution of income-to-needs, using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, which oversamples low-income families. We find adverse – rather than beneficial – effects of minimum wages on the employment, hours,… \[…\] ## [Whiskey taxes, revenue and voting by members of Congress in history](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/25/whiskey-taxes-revenue-and-voting-by-members-of-congress-in-history/) _2026-08-25 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ See Revenue over reason: A case for home distilling by Ben Semark of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. After an excerpt from Semark’s article, I discuss how this relates to voting by congressmen on bills during the Federalist period, the subject of my Ph. D. dissertation.Excerpt from Semark:”Creating home-brewed spirits was not a niche or commercial practice… \[…\] ## [Part II: Demographics + Entitlements = Europe’s Doom](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/25/part-ii-demographics-entitlements-europes-doom/) _2026-08-24 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ The world’s most under-appreciated problem is demographic decline mixed with tax-and-transfer entitlement programs. Those two factors, when combined, are a massive problem. All of which is explained in my series on demographic change and fiscal crisis (see here, here, here, here, and here). Today, let’s focus on the problem in Europe, building on what I \[…\] ## [The big sample delusion](https://www.ourlongwalk.com/p/the-big-sample-delusion) _2026-08-24 · Johan Fourie · Our Long Walk_ What 3.4 million households – and one very strange South African survey – reveal about the numbers we trust ## [Bill Maher promotes the resumption of workplace romances](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/23/bill-maher-promotes-the-resumption-of-workplace-romances/) _2026-08-23 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ In his “New rule” comedy-and-news/opinion segment of Real Time, Bill Maher argues that there’s been too much disapproveal of romances in the workplace. (He mentions the draconian rule proposed by AOC, which demonizes romances between people in Congress and any staffer, no matter who they work for, even though Congresspeople are already prohibited from dating… \[…\] ## [Harvard. Trade unionism and allied problems. Course description, enrollment, final exam. Ripley, 1912-1913](https://www.irwincollier.com/harvard-trade-unionism-and-allied-problems-course-description-enrollment-final-exam-ripley-1912-1913/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harvard-trade-unionism-and-allied-problems-course-description-enrollment-final-exam-ripley-1912-1913) _2026-08-23 · Irwin Collier · Economics in the Rear-View Mirror_ With a decade’s worth of experience teaching his labor course, William Zebina Ripley established his problems of labor as a staple applied offering in the Harvard economics department going into the second decade of the twentieth century. Links to previous Harvard labor exams 1892-93 to 1911-12. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Labor Bibliographies Prepared by Ripley Short Bibliography of \[…\] The post… ## [The all powerful TOP Board](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/23/the-all-powerful-top-board/) _2026-08-22 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ Pleased to see at least one journalist asking tough questions of TOP. It is alarming that the party leader doers;t even know her own party’s rules, especially one as important as the board being able to over-rule the caucus. I guess this is what you get when a party leader is not a long-standing member,… \[…\] ## [Collect Open Source Legends (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ndS6REmn2QXP) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Open-licensed art, limited foil trading packs, and optional on-chain mints. ## [West Point Professor Challenges Ban on “Un-American, Divisive…Radical, Extremist, and Irrational Theories.”](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/23/west-point-professor-challenges-ban-on-un-american-divisiveradical-extremist-and-irrational-theories/) _2026-08-22 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ There is an important lawsuit being litigated in the Southern District of New York over the limits of free speech… West Point Professor Challenges Ban on “Un-American, Divisive…Radical, Extremist, and Irrational Theories.” ## [Swarthmore. Honors Examination in Economic Theory. Coppock, 1947](https://www.irwincollier.com/swarthmore-honors-examination-in-economic-theory-coppock-1947/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=swarthmore-honors-examination-in-economic-theory-coppock-1947) _2026-08-21 · Irwin Collier · Economics in the Rear-View Mirror_ Joseph David Coppock was an external examiner for the honors economic theory examination at Swarthmore. The economics department called on their alumnus (A.B., 1933 with a Columbia University Ph.D., 1940) at least three times in the 1940s. His January 1947 examination questions are transcribed for this post. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Swarthmore Senior exams posted previously (with external \[…\] The… ## [The Fair Share Myth and Other Socialist Fables](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/22/the-fair-share-myth-and-other-socialist-fables/) _2026-08-21 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ Below is my column in the Hill on Mamdani’s “Fair Share Myth” and other fables being spread on the left… The Fair Share Myth and Other Socialist Fables ## [Fidel Castro: Human Garbage](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/22/fidel-castro-human-garbage/) _2026-08-21 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ I’ve written many columns documenting Cuba’s economic misery. Probably the most-persuasive evidence that socialism has failed in that country is the chart showing how Cuba has fallen behind other (very similar) countries ever since Fidel Castro took over more than six decades ago. Though I’ve always thought the most-damning visual came from the Economist, which \[…\] ## [Judicial Power, Democratic Accountability, and the Smith Case](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/22/judicial-power-democratic-accountability-and-the-smith-case/) _2026-08-21 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ Supreme Court lacks democratic responsibility and accountability: its excesses demand clearer leadership from the legal profession. Judicial Power, Democratic Accountability, and the Smith Case ## [The History and Importance of the Austrian Theory of the Market Process …](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/21/the-history-and-importance-of-the-austrian-theory-of-the-market-process/) _2026-08-20 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ ## [“The Cascade of Dysfunction That Helped Doom Jason Arday”](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/21/the-cascade-of-dysfunction-that-helped-doom-jason-arday/) _2026-08-20 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ An excellent piece today by Jesse Singal in The Dispatch; the whole thing is worth reading, but here are some… The post “The Cascade of Dysfunction That Helped Doom Jason Arday” appeared first on Reason.com. “The Cascade of Dysfunction That Helped Doom Jason Arday” ## [The Confucian fertility paradox](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/21/the-confucian-fertility-paradox/) _2026-08-20 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ Total fertility rates in East Asia have fallen to levels without historical precedent, even though the region’s Confucian heritage long placed extraordinary emphasis on family continuity and large families. We argue that this “Confucian Fertility Paradox” dissolves once we separate two strands of the tradition and recognize that modernization affected them very differently. The pro-natal… \[…\] ## [The Thing-not the movie.](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/21/the-thing-not-the-movie/) _2026-08-20 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ The Thing, also known as The Great Seal Bug, was a passive covert listening device, developed in the Soviet Union and planted in the study of the US Ambassador in Moscow, hidden inside a wooden carving of the Great Seal of the United States. It is called a passive device as it does not have its own power source. \[…\] ## [Dr. Israel M. Kirzner — “Economics and Entrepreneurship”](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/21/dr-israel-m-kirzner-economics-and-entrepreneurship-2/) _2026-08-20 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9Ngfo2JIatQY) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [Never was so much owed by so many to so few](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/21/never-was-so-much-owed-by-so-many-to-so-few/) _2026-08-20 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ Churchill’s speech commonly known as “The Few” was delivered in the House of Commons on 20 August 1940, during the Battle of Britain. It is formally associated with his speech on “The First Year of the War.” The famous line about “the Few” referred principally to the RAF fighter pilots, although Churchill also deliberately paid \[…\] ## [Did UBI make people happier?](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/21/did-ubi-make-people-happier/) _2026-08-20 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ Eh, only in the short run: We study the causal impacts of income on a rich array of employment outcomes, leveraging an experiment in which 1,000 low-income individuals were randomized into receiving $1,000 per month unconditionally for three years, with a control group of 2,000 participants receiving $50/month. We gather detailed survey data, administrative records,… \[…\] ## [What I think about when I think about writing](https://www.ourlongwalk.com/p/what-i-think-about-when-i-think-about) _2026-08-20 · Johan Fourie · Our Long Walk_ Why writing is not thinking ## [How much land tax will you pay?](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/20/how-much-land-tax-will-you-pay/) _2026-08-20 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ TOP has proposed a 1.75% tax on the value of urban land (except Maori communal land) and 0.5% on rural land. It is worth noting that land values have been declining for the last five years, so TOP’s policy is to tax you on an asset that is declining in value! Urban Av land value… \[…\] ## [Voter Ignorance and the Problem of Confusion Caused by Candidates With Similar Names \[Updated\]](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/20/voter-ignorance-and-the-problem-of-confusion-caused-by-candidates-with-similar-names-updated/) _2026-08-19 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ Voter confusion caused by candidates with similar names – as in the current Alaska Senate race – is part of the much larger problem of political ignorance. Voter Ignorance and the Problem of Confusion Caused by Candidates With Similar Names \[Updated\] ## [The Future of Austrian Economics | Murray N. Rothbard](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/20/the-future-of-austrian-economics-murray-n-rothbard/) _2026-08-19 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ ## [Harvard. Transportation Economics. Course description, enrollment, final exam. Ripley, 1912-1913](https://www.irwincollier.com/harvard-transportation-economics-course-description-enrollment-final-exam-ripley-1912-1913/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harvard-transportation-economics-course-description-enrollment-final-exam-ripley-1912-1913) _2026-08-19 · Irwin Collier · Economics in the Rear-View Mirror_ Links to earlier course material for Economics of Transportation from Harvard, 1887-88 through 1911-12. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ About the Teaching Assistant Lloyd Morgan Crosgrave \[PUT in LINK TO 1912-13 PRINCIPLES PAGE #Crosgrave\] General Examination in Economics, Wednesday, May 7, 1913. General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Economic History since 1750. 3. Statistics. 4. \[…\]… ## [The 1934 German Head of State Referendum: A Pivotal Moment in Nazi Consolidation of Power](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/19/the-1934-german-head-of-state-referendum-a-pivotal-moment-in-nazi-consolidation-of-power-2/) _2026-08-19 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ The 1934 German head-of-state referendum, held on August 19, stands as a crucial moment in the Nazi regime’s consolidation of power. Following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg on August 2, 1934, Adolf Hitler sought to solidify his grip on Germany by merging the offices of President and Chancellor, thus assuming the title of \[…\] ## [Harvard. Money, Banking, Crises. Description, enrollment, final exams. Day, 1912-1913](https://www.irwincollier.com/harvard-money-banking-crises-description-enrollment-final-exams-day-1912-1913/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harvard-money-banking-crises-description-enrollment-final-exams-day-1912-1913) _2026-08-19 · Irwin Collier · Economics in the Rear-View Mirror_ The origin of monetary macroeconomics at Harvard can be traced to the second decade of the twentieth century when money and banking became merged with the topic of commercial crises as taught by Edmund Ezra Day. This post offers rich biographical detail about the two teaching assistants for the course as an added bonus to \[…\] The post Harvard. Money, Banking, Crises. Description, enrollment, final… ## [Running Out of Patience with Economics](https://poorrichworld.blog/p/running-out-of-patience-with-economics) _2026-08-18 · Joseph Francis · The Poor Rich World_ A Strange Case of Inverted Area Weights ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sXBUieVDGQOq) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [The International Court of Justice Climate Liability Ruling Sets a Worrying Precedent for Pandemics and Public Health](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/19/the-international-court-of-justice-climate-liability-ruling-sets-a-worrying-precedent-for-pandemics-and-public-health/) _2026-08-18 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ In many countries the Covid response mimicked the climate change playbook. The catastrophism of both agendas was based on models. Claims of scientific authority and existential crisis escalated the agendas into moral crusades and people were asked to bear sacrifices for the good of the collective humanity and the planet. The post The International Court… \[…\] ## [Who Pays for Medicare for All?](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/18/who-pays-for-medicare-for-all/) _2026-08-18 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ Plus: Democrats reckon with the rise of the DSA, Trump scales back America’s military presence abroad, and the case for letting kids play outside Who Pays for Medicare for All? ## [Harvard. 19th century European economic history. Description, enrollment, final exam. Gay, 1912-1913](https://www.irwincollier.com/harvard-19th-century-european-economic-history-description-enrollment-final-exam-gay-1912-1913/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harvard-19th-century-european-economic-history-description-enrollment-final-exam-gay-1912-1913) _2026-08-18 · Irwin Collier · Economics in the Rear-View Mirror_ To add a personal touch to this artifact, it is headed with an image of a coal-miner, a “Collier”, the origin of Economics in the Rear-view Mirror‘s curator’s family name. And nothing says European Industrial Revolution quite like coal mines and steam engines. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Earlier Harvard courses on European economic history Links to earlier course \[…\] The post Harvard. 19th century… ## [The Cost of Going to Space](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/18/the-cost-of-going-to-space/) _2026-08-17 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ Terzi & Nicoli have a fascinating new paper analyzing over 4,400 orbital launches since 1960 to estimate “Wright’s Law.” This law states that a new technology’s unit costs fall in proportion to cumulative experience. Essentially, it is an expression of learning-by-doing. They show:… that the average cost of sending a kilogram to orbit has dropped… \[…\] ## [AI and academic publication](https://www.ourlongwalk.com/p/ai-and-academic-publication) _2026-08-17 · Johan Fourie · Our Long Walk_ Three new working papers make predictions about how AI will affect the price of submissions, the review system, and the size of research teams... ## [Opportunity Party on when you’re a child](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/17/opportunity-party-on-when-youre-a-child/) _2026-08-16 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ The Opportunity Party policy is or was that any criminal offender aged under 25 should be sent to the Youth Court for a family group conference, rather than go to an adult court. They say this is because 24 year old brains are not fully developed, so they should not be held fully accountable for… \[…\] ## [The effects of remote work on the disability employment gap](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/17/the-effects-of-remote-work-on-the-disability-employment-gap/) _2026-08-16 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ A rise in work from home explains most of the postpandemic gain in full-time employment among people with physical disabilitiesBy Tyler Smith. “Employment among people with disabilities has remained well below that of the broader population, with an average disability employment gap of 27 percentage points across OECD countries. In the United States, this low disability… \[…\] ## [A Close Call with Asteroid Apophis](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/17/a-close-call-with-asteroid-apophis/) _2026-08-16 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ It was quite a scare when first discovered in 2004, but thousands of observations later, we now know that the asteroid known as Apophis will miss Earth when it makes its closest approach in April 2029. However, in the grand scheme of things in our vast universe, this will be a close call, and it’ll… \[…\] ## [Chicago. Graduate Economic Theory Prelim Questions. Winter, 1953](https://www.irwincollier.com/chicago-graduate-economic-theory-prelim-questions-winter-1953/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chicago-graduate-economic-theory-prelim-questions-winter-1953) _2026-08-16 · Irwin Collier · Economics in the Rear-View Mirror_ Links to previously posted Chicago prelim exams. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ECONOMIC THEORY I Part I Written examination for the Ph.D. and A.M. Degrees Winter Quarter, 1953 I. — a. — 1. \[5 points\] What will be the relation between the demand curve for a product at retail and the demand curve for the same product at \[…\] The post Chicago. Graduate Economic Theory Prelim Questions. Winter, 1953 appeared… ## [Life and death of Mata Hari](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/16/life-and-death-of-mata-hari/) _2026-08-15 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ Despite her exotic name Mata Hari was a Dutch woman. Her real name was Margaretha (Gretha)Zelle and was born in Leeuwarden, in the province of Friesland in the North West of the Netherlands.. Today marks her 150th birthday. At 18, Zelle answered an advertisement in a Dutch newspaper placed by Dutch Colonial Army Captain Rudolf MacLeod (1 March 1856 – 9 January 1928), \[…\] ## [Harvard. US Economic History. Description, enrollment, final exam. Gay, 1912-1913](https://www.irwincollier.com/harvard-us-economic-history-description-enrollment-final-exam-gay-1912-1913/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harvard-us-economic-history-description-enrollment-final-exam-gay-1912-1913) _2026-08-15 · Irwin Collier · Economics in the Rear-View Mirror_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 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… ## [The Omagh Bombing](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/16/the-omagh-bombing/) _2026-08-15 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ The Omagh bombing, which took place on August 15, 1998, stands as the deadliest single atrocity of the decades-long sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles. Just four months after the historic signing of the Good Friday Agreement, a car bomb exploded in the busy centre of Omagh, County Tyrone, in an attack \[…\] ## [Alex Tabarrok: Britain’s equal pay madness](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/16/alex-tabarrok-britains-equal-pay-madness/) _2026-08-15 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ ## [The Taliban, Women and the Far Left](https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2026/08/15/the-taliban-women-and-the-far-left/) _2026-08-15 · Jim Rose · Utopia, you are standing in it!_ It is five years today since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. On 15 August 2021, its forces entered Kabul as the Afghan government collapsed and the long Western intervention came to an ignominious end. Five years later, the consequences for Afghan women are appalling. The Taliban has issued more than 100 decrees restricting the \[…\] ## [SUTVA’s Long Shadow](https://poorrichworld.blog/p/sutvas-long-shadow) _2026-08-13 · Joseph Francis · The Poor Rich World_ Cotenability Complicates the Regressions of Historical Economics ## [But I like doing this](https://www.ourlongwalk.com/p/but-i-like-doing-this) _2026-08-13 · Johan Fourie · Our Long Walk_ What Adam Smith and two new NBER papers say about work that is too enjoyable to stop ## [Argentina without Railroads, the United States without Slavery](https://poorrichworld.blog/p/argentina-without-railroads-the-united) _2026-08-12 · Joseph Francis · The Poor Rich World_ There is a “Cotenability” Problem in Counterfactuals ## [Columbia. Statistics as a method not separate science. Frederick C Mills, 1924](https://www.irwincollier.com/columbia-statistics-as-a-method-not-separate-science-frederick-c-mills-1924/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=columbia-statistics-as-a-method-not-separate-science-frederick-c-mills-1924) _2026-08-12 · Irwin Collier · Economics in the Rear-View Mirror_ 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… ## [Harvard. Principles of Economics. Description, enrollment, and final exams. Taussig and Day, 1912-1913](https://www.irwincollier.com/harvard-principles-of-economics-description-enrollment-and-final-exams-taussig-day-1912-1913/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harvard-principles-of-economics-description-enrollment-and-final-exams-taussig-day-1912-1913) _2026-08-11 · Irwin Collier · Economics in the Rear-View Mirror_ 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, 1956](https://www.irwincollier.com/m-i-t-general-examination-in-economic-theory-may-1956/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=m-i-t-general-examination-in-economic-theory-may-1956) _2026-08-11 · Irwin Collier · Economics in the Rear-View Mirror_ \[M.I.T.\] 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…