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Chicago Economics. Math Econ (Econ 402). Henry Schultz References. 1932

 

 

Albert G. Hart was a graduate student at the University of Chicago 1931-34. Among the courses he took was that of Henry Schultz in mathematical economics. In his papers are three sets of reading lists for the course along with Hart’s handwritten notes.

Course Description Econ 402
References for Econ. 402
References for Cost Theory
References for Monopolistic Competition

The same core reading list was used in the autumn quarter of 1935. The reading list for that quarter has been transcribed in a later post, with the added attraction of having many links to the individual items on the list!

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  1. Mathematical Economics.—A study of economic theory from the point of view of assumptions, range of problems, methods and tools, and validity and utility of results under present conditions. Consideration is given to the problem of “circular reasoning” in price theory, to the advantages and limitations of the mathematical approach, and to the possibility of developing a “statistical complement” to pure theory. Special attention is paid to the problem of price determination and to the mathematical theory of production. Readings will be assigned on special topics in the works of Cournot, Jevons, Walras, Pareto, Marshall, Moore, and others; and the class meetings will be devoted chiefly to discussion. Opportunity for investigation of particular problems is offered the student. Prerequisite: Economics 301 [Price and Distribution Theory], a reading knowledge of French, and consent of the instructor. Registration may be made for one or more courses each quarter. Summer, Spring, SCHULTZ.

 

Source: University of Chicago. Announcements, Social Sciences for the sessions of 1931-32. Vol. XXI, January 15, 1931, no. 11, p. 26

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[Spring Quarter 1932]

REFERENCES FOR ECON. 402

Mathematical Economics
By
Henry Schultz
University of Chicago

 

Amoroso, Luigi Lezioni di Economia Matematica
Le Equazioni Differenziali della Dinamica Economica—in Giornale degli Economisti, February, 1929.
La Curva Statica di Offerta—Giornale degli Economisti, January, 1930.
Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science July, 1892 (Paper by Walras)
Auspitz, Rudolf
Lieben, Richard		 Recherches sur la théorie du prix
Bentham, Jeremy Principles of Morals and Legislation
Bertolasi, Ellen Quittner Die Stellung der Lausanner Schule in der Grenznutzenlehre—in Arch. f. Sozialw. u. Sozialpol., 64. Band, Heft 1, August, 1930, pp. 16-44.
Black, J. O. Production Economics
Bonar, James Philosophy and Political Economy
Bousquet, G. H. Essai sur l’évolution de la Pensée économique
Précis de sociologie d’àpres Vilfredo Pareto
Vilfredo Pareto: Sa vie et son oeuvre
Boven, Pierre Les applications mathématiques à l’économie politique
Bowley, A. L. Mathematical Groundwork of Economics
Bridgman, P. W. The Logic of Modern Physics
Cassel, Gustav Theory of Social Economy
Fundamental Thoughts on Economics
Cournot, A. A. The Mathematical Theory of Wealth
Théorie des richesses
Cunynghame, H. Geometrical Political Economy
Del Vecchio, Gustavo La Dinamica Economica Di H. L. Moore—in Giornale degli Economisti, Anno XLV, Giugno, 1930, VIII, No. 6, pp. 545-554.
Dicey Law and Opinion in England
Edgeworth, F. Y. Mathematical Psychics
Papers relating to Political Economy
Evans, G. C. Mathematical Introduction to Economics
Fisher, Irving Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices,—in Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences (9-10) pp. 1-125.
Giornale degli Economisti Aug. & Oct., 1924
Halévy, Élie La formation du radicalism philosophique
Hobson, E. W. The Domain of Natural Science
Jevons, W. S. Theory of Political Economy
Journal of the American Statistical Association Dec. 1923; March & Dec. 1924; Dec. 1926 (Papers by H. L. Moore)
Journal of Political Economy Oct. & Dec. 1925; April 1927
Marshall, Alfred Principles of Economics
Industry and Trade
Money, Credit and Commerce
Moore, Henry L. Laws of Wages
Economic Cycles
Forecasting the Yield & the Price of Cotton
Generating Economic Cycles
Synthetic Economics
Moret, Jacques L’emploi des mathématiques en économie politique
Nicol, A. J. Partial Monopoly and Price Leadership (Privately published)
Pantaleoni, M. Pure Economics
Pareto, Vilfredo Manuel d’économie politique
Cours d’économie politique
Anwendung der Mathematik auf National Ökonomie, —in Encycl. Mathematisch, Wissenschaft, I G 2, pp. 1094-1170
Économie mathématique, —in Encyclopédie des sciences mathématique, Tome I, vol. 4 (Fascicule 4, pp. 590-640)
The New Theories of Economics, —in Journ. Polit.Econ., Sept. 1897
Traité de sociologie générale
Pearson, Karl Grammar of Science
Pietri-Tonelli, Alfonso Traité d’économie rationelle
Pigou, Alfred [sic, Arthur] Economics of Welfare
Planck, Max A Survey of Physics
Poincaré, Henri Foundations of Science
Political Science Quarterly Vol. XXXIII, June, 1918, No. 2, pp. 164-5 (Paper by Mitchell)
Quarterly Journal of Economics Jan. 1898; Aug. 1925; Nov. 1926; March 1927
Revue d’histoire des doctrines économique et sociales 1910 (Article by Antonelli on Léon Walras)
Revue d’histoire économique et sociale 1924, pp. 225-43
Revue de metaphysique et de morale (13) 1905 (Section on Cournot)
Ricci, Umberto Die statistischen Gesetze des Gleichgewichtes nach Henry Schultz—in Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, January, 1931
Schultz, Henry Statistical Laws of Demand and Supply
Marginal Productivity and the General Pricing Process, —Journ. Polit. Econ., Oct. 1929
Der Sinn der statistischen Nachfragekurven
Vinci, Felice “Sui Fondamenti della Dinamica Economica”, Rivista Italiana di Statistica, Anno II, No. 3, Luglio-Settembre, 1930—VIII, pp. 222-268
Walras, Léon Économie politique appliquée
Économie sociale
Élèments d’économie politique
Wicksteed, Philip The Alphabet of Economic Science
Common Sense of Political Economy
Stephen, Leslie The Utilitarians
Zawadzki, Wl. Les mathématiques appliquées à l’économie politique
Zeuthen, F. L. Problems of Monopoly and Economic Welfare
[handwritten addition] Weinberger, Otto Mathematische Sozialwissenschaft

 

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Economics 402
Prof. Henry Schultz

REFERENCES ON COST THEORY

Marshall, A.—Principles of Economics, 8th ed., Book V, Chap. V.

Ricci, Umberto—“Curve piane di offerta dei prodotti”, Giornale degli Economisti, Vol. 33, September, 1906, pp. 223ff.

————- “Elasticita dei Bisogni delli Domanda e dell’ offerta,” Giornale degli Economisti, August and October, 1924.

Edgeworth, F. Y.—“The Laws of Increasing and Diminishing Returns”, in Papers Relating to Political Economy, Vol. I, pp. 61-99.

Young, Allyn A.—“Pigou’s Wealth and Welfare”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XXVII, 1913, pp. 672ff.

Fanno, Marco—Contributo alla Teoria dell’offerta a costi conqiunti, Rome, 1914.

Clapham, J. H.—“On Empty Economic Boxes”, Economic Journal, Vol. 32, September, 1922, pp. 304-314.

Pigou, Prof. A. C.—“Empty Economic Boxes: A Reply”, Economic Journal, Vol 32, December 1922, pp. 458 ff.

Clapham, J. H.—“The EconomiC Boxes—a Rejoinder”, Ibid.

Knight, F. H.—“Some Fallacies in the Interpretation of Social Costs”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 38, 1924, pp. 582ff.

Sraffa, P.—“Sulle relazioni fra costo e quantità prodotta,” Annali di Economia, Bd. II, 1925.

————- “The Laws of Return under Competitive Conditions”, Economic Journal, Vol. 36, December, 1926, p. 535.

Papi, G. U.—Sul costo di produzione nei cicli economica, Rome, 1926.

Del Vecchio, G.—“Il costo quale element della theoria economica,” Giornale degli Economisti, Vol. 67, March, 1926, p. 167.

Robertson, D. H.—“Those Empty Boxes,” Economic Journal, Vol. 34, 1927.

Barone—Grunzüge der theoretischen Nationalökonomie, Bonn, 1927. (Translated by H. Staehle)

Cabiati—“Per riempire alcune ‘empty boxes’ finanziarie,” Giornale degli Economisti, 1928.

Pigou, A. C.—“An Analysis of Supply”, Economic Journal, Vol. 38, June, 1928, p. 238.

Shove, G. F.—“Varying Costs and Marginal Net Products,” Economic Journal, Vol. 38, June, 1928, p. 258.

Robbins, Lionel,–“The Representative Firm”, Economic Journal, Vol. 38, September, 1928, p. 387.

Young, Allyn A.—“Increasing Returns and Economic Progress”, Economic Journal, December, 1928.

Schultz, Henry—Statistical Laws of Demand and Supply, 1928, Chap. IV.

————- “Marginal Productivity and the General Pricing Process”, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 27, October, 1929, p. 505.

Amoroso, Luigi—“La Curva Statica di offerta”, Giornale degli Economisti, January, 1930.

Robertson, D. H., Shove, G.F., and Sraffa, P.—“Increasing Returns and the Representative Firm: a Symposium”, Economic Journal, Vol. 40, March, 1930, pp. 79ff.

Morgenstern, Oskar—“Offene Problem der Kosten- und Ertragstheorie”, Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Band II, Heft 4, March, 1931, pp. 481ff.

Harrod, R. F.—“Notes on Supply, Economic Journal, Vol. 40, June, 1930, pp. 232 ff.

 

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Economics 402

Prof. Henry Schultz

REFERENCES ON MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION

Cournot, A. A.—Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth, (1838) Bacon’s Translation, Chaps. V-VIII.

Edgeworth, F. Y.—Mathematical Psychics, London, 1881, pp. 20 ff.

————- “Teoria pura del monoplio”, Giornale degli Economisti, November, 1897, pp. 13-31.

————- “The Pure Theory of Monopoly” and

————- “Professor Seligman on the Theory of Monopoly”, in Papers Relating to Political Economy, Vol. I, pp. 111-171.

Bertrand, Joseph—“Review of Walras and Cournot”, Journal des Savants, Paris, September, 1883, pp. 499-508.

Marshall, Alfred—Principles of Economics, 8th edition, Chap. XIV.

Pareto, Vilfredo—Cours d’économie politique, 1909, pp. 595-602.

————- Manuel d’économie politique, 1909, pp. 595-602.

————- “Économie mathématique”, Encyclopédie de Sciences mathématiques, Tome I, Vol 4, Fascicule 4 (1911), paragraph 14, pp. 604-608.

Fisher, Irving—“Cournot and Mathematical Economics”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, January, 1898, p. 126.

Moore, Henry L.—“Paradoxes of Competition”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XX, 1906, pp. 211 ff.

Zawadski, Wl.—Les mathématiques appliquées à l’économie politique, Paris, 1914, pp. 68-75.

Amoroso, Luigi—Lezioni di Economia mathematica, 1921, pp. 254-272.

————- “La Curva Statica di offerta”, Giornale degli Economisti, January, 1930, especially pp. 11-20.

Edgeworth, F. Y.—Review of Amoroso’s Lezioni, Economie Journal, September, 1922, p. 400.

Clark, J. M.—Economics of Overhead Costs, 1923.

Bowley, Arthur L.—The Mathematical Groundwork of Economics, 1924, p. 38.

Young, Allyn A.—Review of Bowley, Journ. Amer. Stat. Assn., Vol. XX, March, 1925, p. 134.

Myrdal, Gunnar—“Prisbildnings Problemet och Föränderligheten”, Uppsala, 1927.

Wicksell, Knut—“Mathematische Nationalökonomie”, Arch. f. Sozialwiss. u. Sozialpol., 1927, pp. 252 ff.

Schumpeter, Joseph—“Zur Einführung der folgenden Arbeit Knut Wicksells”, Arch. f. Sozialwiss. u. Sozialpol., 1927.

Bowley, A. L.—“Bilateral Monopoly,” Economic Journal, Vol. 38, Dec., 1928, pp. 651 ff.

Schumpeter—“The Instability of Capitalism”, Economic Journal, 1928, pp. 369-70.

Hotelling, Harold—“Stability in Competition”, Economic Journal, Vol. 39, March, 1929, pp. 41-57.

Chamberlin, E. H.—“Duopoly: Value Where Sellers Are Few”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XLIV, No. 1, Nov., 1929.

Pigou, Alfred [sic, Arthur]—Economics of Welfare, 3d edition, 1929, Chaps. XIV-XVII.

Evans, G. C.—Mathematical Introduction to Economics, 1930, Chaps. I and III [handwritten note “add solutions (Duopoly)”]

Nichol, Archibald Jamieson—“Partial Monopoly and Price Leadership,” 1930. (Published by the author.)

Schneider, Erich—“Zur Theorie des mehrfachen Monopols, insbesondere der des Duopols”, Archiv. f. Sozialwiss. u. Sozialpol., Vol. 63, Heft 3, 1930, pp. 539-555.

————- “Drei Probleme der Monopoltheorie”, Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Band II, Heft 3, January, 1931, pp. 376-386.

Zeuthen, F.—Problems of Monopoly and Economic Warfare, London, 1930.

 

 

Source: Albert G. Hart Papers. Box 60, Folder “H. Schultz. Math Ec”. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Columbia University.

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Chicago Economics. Ph.D. Exam. Spring 1939

University of Chicago written examination questions. Part I: Economic Theory. Part II: Monetary and Cycle Theory.

 

ECONOMIC THEORY
Written Examination for the Ph.D. Degree

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Spring Quarter, 1939

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PART I

Time: 4 hours

Answer three questions in Group I and three questions in Group II—six questions in all.

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Group I

  1. A competitive industry uses large enough fractions of the available stocks of several important types of productive services appreciably to influence the prices of these services by its own demand for them. Discuss: (a) the probable shape of the long-run supply curve of that industry’s product, and (b) the relationships between (1) that product’s long-run equilibrium price and (2) the long-run average and marginal costs for a particular concern in that industry and also for the industry as a whole.
  2. An industry produces a bulky standardized commodity, e.g., cement, and uses the base-point pricing system. Mill No. 1 is located at a base point which is one hundred miles away from the nearest mill, No. 2, and two hundred miles away from the next mill, No. 3, the three mills being situated in a straight line as follows: 1__________2____________________3. From No. 1 to No. 2 and from No. 2 to No. 3 are separate freight zones, with 25 cents a barrel rates within each zone for any distance, and 50 cents a barrel for shipments from any point in one zone to any point in the next zone regardless of distance. Mill No. 2, however, gets the 25 cents rate for shipment into either zone. You are asked by Mill No. 1 for advice as to (a) how to determine its optimum base point price, and (b) how far it should invade the market territories of Mills Nos. 2 and 3 through freight absorption, maximum net revenue being its sole objective.
    (a) How would you proceed? (What additional information would you need? How would you use it?)
    (b) Do you know of any industries whose price structure is fairly illustrated by this example?
    (c) What objections might be raised against this type of price structure from a social point of view?
  3. Suppose that frequency distributions of hourly money wage rates (a) in different crafts, (b) in different regions, in the United States were constructed for 1910 and for 1930 and that in each case the frequency distribution for 1930 showed a much greater concentration about the mean than the distribution for 1910.
    (a) Frame plausible hypotheses to explain such a trend.
    (b) Indicate in general lines how their validity might be tested.
  4. In a closed economy, with a paper standard currency fixed in quantity, a 10 per cent sales tax levied upon all final sales to consumers of tangible commodities is the only tax. There is substituted for this tax a uniform 15 per cent personal income tax, which produces and identical amount of revenue. Discuss the changes in the price structure which would probably result from the change in the method of taxation.

 

Group II

  1. Discuss the pros and cons of (a) general, and (b) selective, wage-reductions as a means of procuring fuller employment at the present stage of the depression.
  2. Distinguish between “loan-fund,” “cash-balance” (Keynesian), and marginal productivity theories of the determination of the interest rate structure, and discuss the possibility (or the need) of harmonizing them.
  3. Discuss the differences and the resemblances between the objectives and the attitudes toward free economic enterprise of the seventeenth, eighteenth century mercantilists and the present-day advocates of comprehensive economic planning.
  4. Compare the doctrines of the German historical school and the American institutionalists.

Source: Columbia University Archives, Albert Gailord Hart Collection, Box 61, Folder “Sec 2. General Exams Chicago (Micro)”

 

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PART II
MONETARY AND CYCLE THEORY

Written Examination for the Ph.D. Degree

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Spring Quarter, 1939

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Time: 2½ hours.

Answer all four questions.

  1. Explain the doctrine of “forced saving,” and discuss its applicability to the period since 1933.
  2. Discuss and appraise the various parts of the following quotation:
    “If the quantity theory of money is true, the demand for money is taken as perfectly elastic; because human wants are indefinitely extensible, the public’s demand for money is insatiable, and prices vary directly as the quantity of money offerable. When the Austrians began to apply the marginal analysis, this commodity money having unit elasticity—a perfectly flat horizontal demand curve—naturally attracted attention.”
  3. There is a current belief among many economists that investment opportunities for the future will be so restricted as to necessitate continuous spending by governments. Indicate the factors that would have to be considered in deciding upon the merits of this contention and give your conclusion.
  4. Formulate a set of rules in accordance with which you think the gold standard would operate with a considerable degree of acceptability today; or, if you do not believe this to be possible, indicate why. You may assume that a satisfactory redistribution of gold among the nations has been achieved.

Source: Columbia University Archives, Albert Gailord Hart papers, Box 61, Folder “Exams. Chicago.”

Image: University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf2-07443, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

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Chicago Economics. Ph.D. Exam Questions by Viner in Theory. 1928

Transcription of handwritten draft of examination questions prepared by Jacob Viner.

Ph.D. Examination in Economic Theory

Spring, 1928             Viner[added and circled]

 

Answer questions 1 to 4, inclusive, and four others.

  1. Discuss the scope and method of the English classical school in the light of modern criticism therof.
  2. Explain, and discuss the validity, purpose, and usefulness of any three of the following Marshallian concepts:
    (a) quasi-rent;
    (b) consumers’ surplus;
    (c) unit elasticity;
    (d) maximum satisfaction;
    (e) representative concern.
  3. Describe the cost and supply aspects of the long-run equilibrium conditions under competition for two joint-products, when the proportions in which the two products are produced are: (a) non-variable, (b) variable.
  4. Discuss the contributions to economics of any five of the following:(a) Aristotle; (b) Cantillon ; (c) David Hume; (d) Cournot; (e) Senior; (f) J. B. Say; (g) Von Thunen; (h) Leon Walras.
  5. What is the significance of margins in price theory.
  6. “The price-processes of the market-place are a product of the institutional framework, and cannot be explained independently of the long evolution of the institutional framework of modern economic society which has molded them” Discuss.
  7. In what respects did the Canonists carry economic inquiry beyond its previous status?
  8. Discuss the problem of the relationship of the rate of physical productivity of capital goods to the rate of interest; or
    Discuss the supply curve of saving.
  9. Compare the wage theories of Adam Smith, Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill.
  10. Outline a research project for either:
    (a) The statistical verification of an important proposition in price theory, or
    (b) A statistical study in some phase of distribution theory.

Source:  University of Chicago. Department of Economics. Records, [Box 35, Folder 14], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

Image: University of Chicago Photographic Archive, [apf1-08489], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

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Chicago Economics. Econ 332. Business Cycle Theory (Lange). Minsky Notes. 1942

Notes taken by Hyman Minsky in Spring, 1942, when he was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. The notes are from the class, “Economics 332: Business Cycle Theory” taught by Oscar R. Lange.

I was going to send a graduate student of mine to check the notes in the Minsky Archive at Bard College. Imagine my delight when I was told that the kind folks there would scan the material and post it for all in their Bard Digital Commons. Note there are five files total.

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[Course Description]

E. MONEY, BANKING, AND BUSINESS CYCLES
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332. Business Cycle Theory.–Historical and systematic analysis of business cycle theory. The main types of explanation. Equilibrium theory and analysis of economic processes. The role of time in the analysis of economic processes. The significance of anticipations. Theoretical and observed fluctuations. The factors which determine the general level of output and employment. The fluctuations of investment and of employment. The role of technical progress. Business-cycle policy. Prerequisite: Economics 211, 301, and 330, or equivalents. Spring, 2:30, LANGE.

Source: From The University of Chicago, Announcements,Vol. XLI, No. 10, April 25, 1941.   The College and the Divisions for the Sessions of 1941-1942. (p. 310).

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Chicago Economics. Economics 354. Types of Econ Organization. Douglas. 1938

This is the Chicago version of the course taught at Harvard by Cummings, Carver and then Mason.

The Spring Quarter  of 1938 began March 28. The lecture notes taken by Norman M. Kaplan are for this course that met Tuesdays and Thursdays with his notes dated Mar 29, Mar 31, Apr 5, Apr 12, Apr 19, Apr 21, Apr 26, Apr 28, May 3, May 5, May 10, May 12. Hence we can be certain that the following (undated) syllabus with bibliography was for the Spring, 1938 course taught by Paul H. Douglas.

To those with an eye on contemporary U.S. politics: examining this reading list, one wonders if a professor like this today could imagine getting elected into the U.S. Senate! Perhaps Elizabeth Warren fits the bill but the bench looks pretty shallow…

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H. SOCIAL DIRECTION AND CONTROL OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
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  1. Types of Economic Organization.—An examination of the various forms of economic organization that have been proposed, including the utopias, individualism, Marxian socialism, collectivism, the single tax, syndicalism, guild socialism, communism, capitalism, and fascism. Prerequisite: Economics 209 [Intermediate Economic Theory: “A course designed for undergraduates majoring in Economics who have completed the other Departmental requirements for the degree and for graduate students with limited training in systematic theory. It deals with the factors controlling production, value and relative prices, and distribution.” Taught by Paul Douglas (Winter)], or its equivalent, Spring, Tu., Th., 3:30-5:30, Douglas.

Source: Announcements. The University of Chicago. The College and the Divisions for the Sessions of 1937-1938. p. 307.

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Topics and Assigned Reading for Economics 354
Types of Economic Organization

[Spring Quarter, 1938]

The three main divisions of the course, with the basic assigned reading to be covered under each, are as follows:

I.  The Development of Utopian Thought – (2 weeks.)

  1. Plato and the “Republic.”
  2. Thomas More’s “Utopia.”
  3. The economic doctrines and activities of Robert Owen.
  4. French Utopian Socialism: Fourier, Cabet, and Saint-Simon (omitted 1937).

Assigned reading: (1) Plato, The Republic: Sections 368-374 of Book II, Sections 412-417 of Book III, Books IV and V entire; (2) More’s Utopia, Book II; (3), Owen’s Autobiography, or one of the better lives of Owen, such as those by Podmore [vol. 1, vol. 2], Cole and McCabe. [Handwritten addition: “Aristotle, Politics, Bk. II (1st 6 paragraphs)”]

Supplementary reading: 1) Aristotle, Politics, Sections 1-7; (2) Ernest Barker, Greek Political Thought—Plato; (3) Chambers, Thomas More; (4) Campenalla, The City of the Sun; (5) Bacon, New Atlantis; (6) Robert Owen, A New View of Society, etc.; (7) Charles Gide, Morceaux Choisis de Charles Fourier; (8) Cabet, Voyage en Icarie; (9) Bellamy, Looking Backward; (10) William Morris, News from Nowhere.

 

II. The Economic and Social Doctrines of Karl Marx (4 weeks)

  1. The differences between Marxism and Utopianism.
  2. The economic or materialistic interpretation of history.
  3. The labor theory of value; the theory of surplus value; and the alleged “great contradiction.”
  4. The theory of the final cataclysm.
  5. An appraisal of Marx’ thought.

Assigned reading: (1) Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto; (2) Engels, Socialism—Utopian and Scientific; (3) Marx, Value, Price and Profit, sections VI-XIV; Marx, Capital, Vol. I, chapters I—sections 1 and 2, and A of section 3; VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XVI, XVII, XIX; Vol. III, last pages of chapter VIII and chapter IX; Book I, chapters XXV and (XXXII).

Supplementary reading: (1) Marx Capital, Vol. I, chapter XV; (2) Rühle, Karl Marx, or Mehring, Life of Marx; 3) Marx, Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy; (4) Hook, Towards and Understanding of Karl Marx; (5) Joseph, Karl Marx’ Theory of Value [sic, The Labour Theory of Value in Karl Marx, 1923]; (6) Böhm-Bawerk, Karl Marx and the Close of His System; (7) Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism. (8) De Man, Psychology of Socialism.

 

III. The development of Proposals and Movements for Organizing Economic and Social Life. (In the main, post-Marxian). (4 weeks)

  1. The theory and practice of capitalism.
  2. Collectivism.
  3. Anarchism, syndicalism and guild socialism.
  4. Cooperation.
  5. The Single Tax.
  6. Modern Communism.
  7. Fascism.

Because of reasons of time, topics 3,4 and 5 will be scantily treated and may indeed be omitted.

Assigned reading. The material on these topics is, of course, enormous. The best treatment of collectivism is given in Fabian Essays (1888) by Webb, Shaw, Wallas, etc., and in Bernard Shaw’s The Common Sense of Municipal Trading. On anarchism: Proudhon and Kropotkin are the most suggestive writers. On cooperation, Beatrice Potter’s (Mrs. Webb) The Consumers Cooperative Movement in Great Britain; Beatrice and Sydney Webb, The Consumers Cooperative Movement; Gide, Consumers Cooperative Societies; Childs, Sweden—The Middle Way; Howe, Denmark—The Cooperative Way; are excellent.

All students of communism should read Lenin, The State and Revolution; and the two-volume work by Beatrice and Sydney Webb, Soviet Communism. See also the new constitution of Russia, reprinted by the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace.

On fascism, see Finer, Mussolini’s Italy; Mussolini, “Fascism,” in the Italian Encyclopedia; and Hitler’s Mein Kampf, to be read if possible in the original German instead of the expurgated English and American editions.

The principles of liberalism are well stated in the writings of Jefferson; John Stuart Mill, Liberty; Representative Government, etc.; Wilson, The New Freedom; Brandeis, The Curse of Bigness; Franklin Roosevelt; etc.

Supplementary reading: (1) For an able criticism of socialism and a defense of individualism, see Ludwig von Mises, Socialism; (2) Beer, History of British Socialism; (3) Norman Thomas, America’s Way Out; (4) Sidney and Beatrice Webb, A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain; (5) Levine, Syndicalism in France; (6) Cole, Guild Socialism; (7) Henry George, Progress and Poverty, especially Books V, VI, VII, VIII and IX; (8) Trotsky, The Russian Revolution; (9) Chamberlin, The Russian Revolution; (10) Seldes, Sawdust Caesar; (11) Salvemini, Under the Axe of Fascism; (12) Heiden, Life of Hitler; (13) Heiden, History of National Socialism; (14) Florinsky, Fascism and National Socialism; (15) Schuman, Nazi Germany; (16) Strachey, The Coming Struggle for Power; (17) Davis (editor) Modern Social Movements.

A somewhat fuller bibliography is appended.

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR POLITICAL ECONOMY 354
TYPES OF ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION

(Best References Starred)

1. Utopian

More, Thomas. Utopia
*Plato, The Republic (Benjamin Jowett, Trans.)
Barker-Ernest. Greek Political Theory
Aristotle. The Politics
Latimore-More. English Reprints
Engels, Frederick. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
*Bacon, Francis. New Atlantus
*Campenella, Tomasso. The City in the Sun
*Morley, Ideal Commonwealths
Andrae, Christian Opolis
Owen, R. D. Threading My Way
Lockwood. The New Harmony Movement
Herzler, J. O. History of Utopian Thought
Mumford, Lewis. The Story of Utopias
Cabet, Reise Nach Ikarien, V. G.
Wells, H. G. A Modern Utopia
Godwin, Wm. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
Fourier, Chas. Theorie de l’Unite universelle; Le Nouveau Monde industrial
Saint-Simon, G. Oeuvres de Saint Simon et d’Enfantin
*Morris, William. News from Nowhere
Morris, William. A Dream of John Ball
*Howells, W. D. A Traveller from Altruria
*Ely, R. T. French and German Socialism
*Bellamy, E. Looking Backward
Podmore, Frank. Biography of Robert Owen
*Autobiography of Robert Owen
*Owen, Robert. The Book of the New Moral World
Guthrie, W. B. Socialism before the French Revolution
Peixottot, J. B. The French Revolution and Modern French Socialism
*Hillquit, Morris. History of Socialism in the United States
*Noyes, John Humphrey. A History of American Socialisms
*Nordhoff, Charles. The Communistic Societies of the United States
Hinds, William. American Communities
Shaw, Albert. Icaria –A Chapter in the History of Communism
Kent, Rev. Alexander. Cooperative Communities in the United Status, in Bulletin of Department of Labor, No. 35, July, 1901
Clark, Bertha. The Huterian Brethern. Journal of Political Economy, April and June 1921
Gide, Charles Fourier
Owen. New View of Society
McCabe. Robert Owen
Cole. Robert Owen
Chambers. Thomas More

2. The Economic Interpretation of History

*Marx and Engels. Communist Manifesto
*Marx, Karl. Revolution and Counter-Revolution
*Loria, Achille. Essays on the Materialistic Interpretation of History
*Marx, Karl. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Kautsky, K. The Class Struggle
Beard, C. A. Economic Interpretation of the Constitution
Beard, C. A. Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy
Engels, Frederick. Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
Engels , Frederick. Condition of the Working Classes in England in 1844
Engels, Frederick. The Roots of the Socialist in Philosophy Feuerbach
Engels, Frederick. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism, Anti-Duhring
Simone, A. M. Class Struggles in America.
Simone, A. M. Social Forces in American History
*Seligman, E. R. A. The Economic Interpretation of History
Seligman, E. R. A. Essay on Problems of Readjustment after the War
Howe, F. C. Why War?
Brailsford, H. N. War of Steel and Gold
Hobson, J. A. Imperialism
Loria, A. Economic Causes of War
Croce, B. The Historical Materialism of Karl Marx
Ogburn, W. F. The Psychological Basis for the Economic Interpretation of History. Supp. Am. Econ. Rev. March 1919
Hansen, A. H. The Technological Interpretation of History. Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1921
Marx, Karl. The Gotha Program
Marx, Karl. The Poverty of Philosophy
Earl, E. M. The War and The Bagdad Railway
D’Espagnel, P. The World’s Struggle for Oil
Woolf, L. S. Empire and Commerce in Africa
Woolf, L. S. Economic Imperialism
Morel, E.D. Red Rubber
Young, G. Nationalism and War in the Near East
Young, G. The Machinery of Diplomacy
Rai, Laypat, England’s Debt to India
Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
S. Hook, Towards an Understanding of Karl Marx
Brailsford, Property or Peace

 

3. Marxian Economics

A.      Marx, Karl. Capital. 3 Vols.

*Marx, Karl. A Critique of Political Economy
*Marx, Karl. Value, Price, and Profit (Popular epitome of Marx’s Theories)
Aveling, Edward. The Student’s Marx
Hyndman, H. M. The Economics of Socialism
Correspondence of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
**Rühle, Karl Marx
Mehring—Life of Marx
Meyer—Frederick Engels

B.    Pro-Marxian

*Untermann, Ernest. Marxian Economics
*Boudin, Louis. The Theoretical System of Karl Marx

C.     Anti-Marxian

*Bohm-Bawerk, E. Von. Karl Marx and the Close of His System
*Le Rossignol, J. E. Orthodox Socialism
Cross, I. B. Essentials of Socialism
*Skelton, O. D. Socialism, A Critical Analysis. Pp. 95-137
*Le Rossignol, J. E. What in Socialism?
Scott, J. R. Karl Marx on Value
Joseph. Labor Theory of Value in Karl Marx.

D.    Pre-Marxian Economic Theories

*Menger, Anton. The Right to the Full Produce of Labor. (A review of labor theories, and a belittling of Marx’s originality.)
*Lowenthal, Esther. The Ricardian Socialists
*Whitaker, A. O. The Labor Theory of Value
Beer, Max. A History of British Socialism, Vol. I, pp. 182-270
Gonner, E. C. K. The Social Philosophy of Rodbertus
Ricardo, David. Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

 

4. Marxian Predictions of the Economic Development of Capitalism

A.     Large-scale Industry

*Bernstein, E. Evolutionary Socialism
*Simkhovitch, V. G. Marxism vs. Socialism
*Rubinow, S. M. Was Marx Wrong?
Dewing, A. S. A Statistical Text of the Success of Consolidation, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Nov. 1921. Vol. XXXVI.
Berle and Means: The Modern Corporation.
Bernheim – Big Business

B.    Agriculture

Department of Agriculture: The Economic Basis of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
Bernstein, Simkhovitch and Robinow as above
Stewart, C. L. Land Tenure in the United States
Bogart, E. L. Farm Ownership in the United States, Jour. Pol. Econ., Vol. XVI
Simons, A. M. The American Farmer
David, Edward. Socialism and Land Wirtschaft
Benjamin. Socialists and the Agrarian Question, Jour. Pol. Econ., June, 1926

 

C.    Distribution of Wealth – (Marx’s Theories of Increasing Misery and the Disapperance of the Middle Class Considered)

(1) United States

*Nationa1 Bureau of Economic Research. Income in the United States
King, W. Wealth and Income of the People of the United States
Nearing, Scott. Income
Nearing, Scott. Financing the Wage-Earner’s Family
Streightoff, F. H. Distribution of Wealth in the United States
More, L. B. Wage Earner’s Budgets
Chapin, R. C. Standard of Living in New York City
Kennedy, J. C. Standard of Living in Stockyards District
Streightoff, F. H. Standard of Living of Industrial People in United States
Ryan, J. A. A Living Wage
Ryan, J. A. Distributive Justice. Economic Review, September 1921
Soule, George. The Productivity Factor in Wage Determination. American Economic Review: Supplement. 1925, pp. 129-40, Vol. 13. (1925)
Federal Trade Commission: National Wealth and Income
Nearing, Scott. Wages in the United States.
Federal Trade Commission, National Wealth and Income.
Leven, Moulton & Warburton. America’s Capacity to Consume
Douglas. Real wages in the United States, 1890-1926
Douglas and Dennison. The Movement of Money and Real Wages, 1926-1928
Houghteling. The Income and Standard of Living of the Unskilled Laborer in Chicago

(2) England

Stamp, J. C. British Incomes and Property
Rountree, B. S. Poverty – A Study of Town Life
Booth, Ch. A Summary of the Life and Labor of the People of London
Bowley. The Change in the Distribution of the National Income 1880-1913
Bowley, A. L. The Division of the Product of Industry
Stamp, J. C. Wealth and Taxable Capacity of Great Britain
Smith and others. A New Survey of London Life and Labour. 10 vols.
Clark. The National Income

(5) Other Countries

Bägge. Wages in Sweden. 1860-1930.
Kuczynski, J. Die Entwicklung der Lage der Arbeiterschaft, 1870-1933
Kuczynski, J. Löhne und Konjunktur in Deutschland, 1887-1932
Kuczynski, J. Die Entwicklung der Löhne in Frankreich und Belgien, 1895-1933.
Simiand, F. Le Salaire. 3 vols.

D.    Unemployment (The Industrial Reserve Army)

Pigou, A. C. Unemployment
Beveridge, W. C. Unemployment
Poyntz and Webb. Seasonal Trades
American Association of Labor Legislation. Unemployment survey, 1915.
Barnes, C. B. The Longshoremen
Webb, S. and B. The Minority Reports of the Poor Law Commission
Berridge, W. A. Cycles of Employment
Hobson, J. A. The Economics of Unemployment
Cole, G. D. H. Out-of-Work
Douglas and Director. The Problem of Unemployment

E.    Crises

Mitchell, W. C. Business Cycles
Jugler, C. A Brief History of Panic
Moore, H. L. Economic Cycles
*Rodbertus, K. J. Over Production and Crises. (Translated by Frank)
Foster and Catchings, Profits
Douglas. Controlling Depressions
Mills. Economic Tendencies in the United States
Hayek. Prices and Production
Strachey. The Nature Of Capitalist Crisis
Pigou. Industrial Fluctuations
Schumpeter. Theory of Economic Development
Martin. The Limited Market
Keynes—The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

 

5. The Socialist Movement in Various Countries

A.    General

Postgate, R. W. Revolution
*Laideer, H. W. Socialism in Thought and Action
*Kirkup, F. History of Socialism (authoritative and reliable)
Ensor, R. C. K. Modern Socialism (gives important extracts showing attitude of Socialists in different countries)
*Walling, Stokes, Hugan, Laidler. The Socialism of Today (invaluable study of present-day tendencies in all countries)
Postgate, R. W. The Workers International
Guillaume, J. L’Internationale, 4 vols.
Hunter, Robert. Violence and the Labor Movement
De Montgomery, B. G. British and Continental Labour Policy
Shadwell. The Socialist Movement, 2 vols.
Fainsod, International Socialism During the War

B.  Specific

(1) Germany

Russell, Bertrand. German Social Democracy
Dawson, W. H. Bismarck and State Socialism
Ely, R. T. French and German Socialism, pp. 156-244
Saunders, W. S. Trade Unionism in Germany

(2) France

Blanc, Louis, L‘Organization du Travail
Jaures, J. Studies in Socialism

(3) Belgium

Bertrand, Louis. Histoire de la Democratie et du Socialisme en Belgique depuis 1830
Douglas, D. W. G. De Greef. The Social Theory of a Syndicalist

(4) England

*Beer, Max. History of British Socialists
Seligman, E. R. A. Owen and the Christian Socialists
Webb, Sidney. Socialism in England
Shaw, Bernard. Early History of the Fabian Society
*Pease, E. R. History of the Fabian Society
Noel, Conrad. The Labor Party
Raven, M. E. The Christian Socialists
Gleason. What the Worker Wants
Blanshard. The British Labor Movement
Chartism in England
Rosenblatt, E. F. The Economic Aspects of Chartism. (Columbia Univ. Studies)
Slosson, P. W. The Decline of Chartism (Columbia University Studies)
West, J. Chartism
Hovell, M. The Chartist Movement
Cammage, R. The Chartist Movement
Life of Willim Lovett
Hofhouse, Stephen. Life of Joseph Sturge
Trevelyan, G. M. Life of Bright
Morley, J. Life or Cobdan

(5) Australasia

*Clark, V.S. The Labor Movement in Australasia.
Le Rossignol and Stewart. State Socialism in New Zealand
Hutchinson, R. H. The State Socialism of Australasia

(6) The United States

Hillquit, Morris. History of Socialism in America
Hughan, Jessie, W. American Socialism of the Present Day
Socialist Congressional Campaign Book, 1914, 1916, 1920; 1928; 1932
Trachtenberg, Alex. Editor. The American Labor Year Book, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1922, etc.
Macy, John. Socialism in America
Benedict, Bertram. The Larger Socialism
Fine. Farmer Labor Parties in American History
Douglas. The Coming of a New Party
Hicks. The Populist Movement.
Thomas. America’s Way Out
Thomas. As I See It

 

6. The Liberal Socialist Ideal

**Russell, B. Proposed Roads to Freedom
*Wells, H. G. New Worlds for Old (A delightful and engrossing book)
*Dickinson, G. Lowes. Justice and Liberty.
*Shaw, Webb, Wallas and others. Fabian Essays (Well written and cogently stated)
*Tawney, R. H. The Acquisitive Society
Walling, W. E. Socialism as It Is
Wells. Mankind in the Making
Wells. This Misery of Booth
Spargo and Arner. Essentials of Socialism
Spargo, John. Socialism (A popular statement by an able supporter)
Spargo, John. Applied Socialism (A constructive attempt to apply the socialist principle to life)
Wells, H. G. and others. Socialism and the great state
Walling, Stokes, Hughan, Laidler. The Socialism of Today
Snowden, P. Socialism and Syndicalism
Hughan, M. The Facts of Socialism
Hillquit, M. Socialism in Theory and Practice
Hillquit, M. Socialism Summed-up
Kautsky, K. The Social Revolution
Schaeffle, A. The Quintessence of Socialism
*Webb, S. and B. A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain
Massart and Vandervelde. Parasitism, Organic and Social
*Hunter, Robert. Violence and the Labor Movement
Shaw, Bernard. Socialism and Superior Brains
Wilde, Oscar. The Soul of Man under Socialism
Rauschenbush, W. Christianity and the Social Crisis
Soudder, Vida D. Socialism and Character
Walling, W. E. The Larger Aspects of Socialism
Sellars, R. W. The Next Step in Democracy
*Benedict, Bertram, N. S. The Larger Socialism
Hobson, J. A. Incentives in the New Social Order.
British Labor Party—Labor and the New Social Order
Henderson, Arthur.— The Aims of Labor
Morris, William. Hopes and Fears for Art
Webb, J. and B. The Collapse of Capitalist Civilization
Russell, Bertrand and Dora. The Prospects of Industrial Civilization
Sturt, Henry. Socialism and Character

 

Socialism and War

Walling, W. E. The Socialists and the War (Excellent documentary collection)
Boudin, Louis. Socialism and War
Files of La Guerre Sociale. Edited by Gustav Herve
Kellogg and Gleason. British Labor and the War
Hunter, Robert. Violence and the Labor Movement

 

8. Collectivism

 

*Davies, E. The Collectivist State in the Making
Shaw, Bernard. The Common Sense of Municipal Trading
Clark, W. E. Municipal Ownership in the United States
*Fabian. Report on State and Municipal Enterprise
Holcombe, A. N. Public Ownership of Telephones on the Continent of Europe
Hammeon, J . C. The British Post-Office
Mavor, James. Public Telephones
Gray, H. L. War Time Control of Industry
*Walling and Laidler. State Socialism, Pro and Con
Ise, John. Our National Forest Policy
Guyot, Yves. Where and Why Public Ownership Has Failed
McKaye, James. Yankee Socialism
Cheozza-Money, L. G. The Triumph of Nationalization
Strobel, Heinrich. Socialization in Theory and Practice
Hodges, Frank. The Nationalization of the Mines
De Montgomery, B. G. British and Continental Labour Policy, pp. 476-529
Survey, issue of March l, 1924 on Giant Power
Strobel, Heinrich. The German Revolution
Thompson. Public Ownerships

 

9. Criticisms of Socialism

*Skelton, O. D. Socialism – A Critical Analysis (excellent)
*Schaeffle, A. The Impossibility of Social Democracy (very good)
Ely, R. T. Socialism and Social Reform
Mallock, W. H. A Critical Examination of Socialism
*Mallock, W. H. Aristocracy and Evolution
*Le Rossignol. What Is Socialism?
Ryan-Hillquit. Socialism, Promise or Menace? (See arguments of Father Ryan against Socialism.)
Guyot, Yves. Socialist Fallacies
Guyot, Yves. The Tyranny of Socialism
Leroy-Beaulieu, P. Collectivism
Belloc, H. The Servile State
Hayek (editor) Collective Economics.
Mises. Socialism.

 

10. References on Anarchistic Theory

1. Individualistic

Godwin, Political Justice
Herbert Spencer. Man Versus the State
Donnisthrope. Liberty
Proudhon. Solution of the Social Problem
Tolstoi. What Shall We Do Then?
Tolstoi. The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Tolstoi. My Religion
Tolstoi. Essays
Tucker. Instead of a Book by a Men Too Busy to Write One

2. Communistic

Kropotkin. Fields, Factories, and Workshops
Kropotkin. The Conquest of Bread
Kropotkin. Mutual Aid
Kropotkin. Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Kropotkin. Anarchist Essays

3. Criticism

Shaw. The Impossibilities of Anarchism

 

11. Syndicalism

Levine. The Labor Movement in France
Pataud et Pouget. Comment Nous Ferons la Revolution?
Pouget. Sabotage
Jouhaux. Le Syndicaliam et Le C. G. T.
Brissenden. The I. W. W.

Criticisms

McDonald. Syndicalism
Spargo. Socialism, Syndicalism and Industrial Unionism

 

12. Guild Socialism

Cole. Self-Government in Industry
Cole. Guild Socialism Re-Stated
Hobson. National Guilds
Carpenter. Guild Socialism Re-Stated

 

13. Consumers Cooperation

Gide. The Consumers Cooperative Societies
Beatrice Potter. The Cooperative Movement in Great Britain
S. & B. Webb. The Consumers Cooperative Movement
Catherine Webb. Industrial Cooperation
Maxwell. History of Cooperation in Scotland
Fay. Cooperation at Home and Abroad
Wolff. Cooperation and the Future of Industry
Warbasse. Cooperative Democracy
Sonnichsen. Consumers Cooperation
Warne. Consumers Cooperation in Illinois
Bergengren. People’s Banks
Russell (“A.E.”). The National Being
Childs. Sweden — The Middle Way
Howe. Denmark — The Cooperative Way

 

14. The Single Tax

George. Progress and Poverty
Young. The Single Tax Movement in the United States
Post. The Taxation of Land Values
Post. What is the Single Tax?
Brown. The Taxation of Unearned Incomes

 

15. Modern Communism

A. Description of Theory

Lenin. The State and Revolution
Lenin. Can the Bolsheviks Maintain Power?
Bukarin and Preobrazhensky. The A. B. C. of Communism
Trotsky. In Defense of Terrorism
Postgate. The Bolshevik Theory
Russell. Bolshevik Theory and Practice
Fox. Lenin
Lenin. Collected Works
Stalin. Collected Works

B. Description of Developments in Russia

Trotsky. The Russian Revolution, 2 vols
Farbman. The Five Year Plan
Hindus. Humanity Uprooted
Hindus. Red Bread
Chamberlin. Soviet Russia–The Iron Age [sic, Russia’s Iron Age, 1934]
Karlgren. Bolshevist Russia (hostile)
Antonelli. Bolshevik Russia (Historical and critical)
Chase and Others. Soviet Russia in the Second Decade
Chamberlain. The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921
Hoover. The Economic Organization of Soviet Russia
***Webb, S. & B. Soviet Communism. 2 vols. The best work thus far. Should be read by all students.
Rosenberg. History of Bolshevism
Trotsky. The Revolution Betrayed

C. Critical

Kautsky. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Kautsky. Terrorism and Communism

 

16. Fascism

Machiavelli. The Prince
Mussolini. My Life
Hitler. Mein Kampf
Schneider. Making the Fascist State
Dutt. Fascism and Social Revolution
Salvimini. Fascism (hostile)
Strachey. The Coming Struggle for Power
Schuman. The Nazi Dictatorship
Bolton, King. Fascism
Pitigliani. The Italian Cooperative State [1933]
Finer. Mussolini’s Italy
Rosenstock-Franck. L’Économie Corporative en Theorie et Pratique [L’économie corporative fasciste en doctrine et en fait, 1934]
Seldes. Sawdust Caesar
Hoover. Germany Enters the Third Reich
Dennis, Lawrence. The Coming American Fascism
Salvemini. Under the Axe of Fascism
Rosso. The Road to Exile.

17. The Theory of Capitalism

Smith. The Wealth of Nations.
Carver. Essays in Social Justice.
Herbert Hoover. Defense of Liberty,
Pigou. The Economics of Welfare.
Cassel. The Theory of Social Economy.

 

18. Recent Books on Fascism, Communism, Democracy (1938)

A. Fascism

*Borgese, Goliath, The March of Fascism.
*Roberts, The House that Hitler Built.
Schmidt, The Plough and the Sword.

 

B. Communism

*Lyons, Assignment in Utopia.
Beal, Proletarian Journey.
Smith, I was a Soviet Worker.
Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed.

(All of the above books on communism are hostile criticisms from ex-communists about the dictatorial aspects of the Russian government)

C. [Democracy]

Heiman, *Fascism, Communism and Democracy [sic, Communism, Fascism or Democracy?]
Pigou, *Socialism versus Capitalism.

 

D. On Some Problems of Pricing, etc., in a Socialist Economy.

*Mises, Socialism.
*Hayek, Mises, Barone, etc., Problems of Collectivist Planning.
*Lange, “The Economic Theory of Socialism,” Review of Economic Studies, October 1936, February 1937.
Lerner, “Economic Theory and Socialist Economy,” Review of Economic Studies, October 1934.

Source: The University of Chicago Library. Norman M. Kaplan Papers. Box 1, Folder 7.

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Graduate Economics Courses. 23 US Universities. 1898-99

In this posting we have a compilation of virtually all the graduate courses in economics (and sociology) offered at the major graduate schools in the U.S. at the end of the 19th century. Source 

Barnard
Brown
BrynMawr
California
Chicago
Columbia
Cornell
Harvard
Hopkins
Stanford
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
NYU
Northwestern
Pennsylvania
Princeton
Radcliffe
Vanderbilt
Wellesley
WesternReserve
Wisconsin
Yale

____________________

EXPLANATORY

“ To state the numbers of Graduate Students who have taken courses in each department during 1897-8, thus giving an indication of the amount of graduate work actually going on. A Graduate Student often takes courses in two or more departments; such student counts once in each of those departments….

…The number of hours per week is put in small Roman, the number of weeks in Arabic numerals. A dash, followed by a mark of interrogation, calls attention to the absence of specific information. Unless months are given, a course usually extends from September or October to May or June (inclusive). The abbreviations for the names of the months are as follows: Ja., F., Mar., Ap., My., Jun., Jul., Au., S., O., N., D.

…[Enclosed] in brackets all courses not to be given in 1898-9. Bracketed courses usually may be expected in 1899-1900.

…[Marked] with the asterisk all courses “not designed primarily for Graduate Students.” It should be borne in mind that “Graduate work” in each institution is conditioned by local plans of administration, as well as by the previous preparation of Graduate Students. The marking of a course with an asterisk simply means that (under the conditions prevailing in his institution) the instructor does not offer the course with a primary purpose of meeting the needs of Graduate Students. But the inclusion of the course in these lists indicates that it is often useful to such students.” [p. liii]

 

 

 

  1. ECONOMICS, SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND ETHNOLOGY. 

(Including Finance and Statistics. See also 9 and 11.)

 

BARNARD.
16 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

[All Graduate Courses in Columbia under 10 open to Barnard Graduate Students.]

 

BROWN.
8 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

 

Henry B. Gardner, Assoc. Prof. of Pol. Econ.
A.B., Brown, ’84, and A.M., ’87; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ’90;
Instr. in Pol. Econ., Brown, ’88-’90.

Hist. of Economic Thought.* iii, 12, S.-D.
Economic Policy. iii, 12, S.-D.
Money and Banking.* iii, 11, Ja.-Mar.
Public Finance.* iii, 10, Ap.-Jun.
Practical Economic Questions.* iii, 12, S.-D.
Economic Theory (adv.) iii, 11, Ja.-Mar.

 

George G. Wilson, Prof. of Social and Pol. Science.
A.B., Brown, ’86, A.M., and Ph.D., ’89;
Assoc. Prof. of Social and Pol. Science, ’91-5.

Princ. of Sociol.* iii, 12, S.-D.
Social Conditions and Probs.* iii, 21, Ja.-Jun.
Current Social Theory and Practice. i, 33.
Sociology. Seminary. Fort.

 

James Q. Dealey, Asst. Prof. of Social and Pol. Science.
A.B. Brown, ’90, A.M., ’92, and Ph.D., ’95.

Devel. of Social Theory. iii, 12, S.-D.
Social Philos. iii, 11, Ja.-Mar.
[Segregation of Population. iii, 10, Ap.-Jun.]

 

Alpheus S. Packard, Prof. of Zool. and Geol.
Ph.D., Bowdoin;
Libr. and Custodian, Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., ’65; Lect., Mass. Agricult. Col. ’69-’77; Maine Agricult. Col., ’71; Bowdoin, ‘73-6.

Anthropology.* iii, 10, Ap.-Jun.

 

 

BRYN MAWR.

3 Graduate Students, 1897-8.
1 Fel. $525 in Hist. of Political Science.

 

Lindley M. Keasbey, Assoc. Prof. of Pol. Sci.
A.B., Harv., ’88; Ph.D., Columbia, ’90;
Asst. in Econ., Columbia, and Lect. on Pol. Sci., Barnard, ’92; R.P.D., Strassburg, ’92; Prof. of Hist., Econ., and Pol. Sci., State Univ. of Col., ’92-4.

Economic Institutions. i, 30.
Am. Primitive Society. i, 30.
Am. Commerce. i, 30.
Descriptive Sociology.* iii, 30.
Theoretical Sociology.* ii, 30.

 

 

CALIFORNIA.

1 Graduate Student, 1897-8.

 

Bernard Moses, Prof. of Hist. and Pol. Econ.
Ph.D., Heidelberg.

Economic Theory.* iv, 16, Ja.-My.
[Econ. Condition of Laborers in Eng. ii, 16, Au.-D.]

 

Carl C. Plehn, Assoc. Prof. of Hist. and Pol. Science.
A.B., Brown; Ph.D., Gottingen.

[Federal Expenditures, Revenues and Debts. ii, 32.]
Industrial and Commercial Hist. of U. S. ii, 32.
[Currency and Banking. ii, 32.]
Finance and Taxation.* iv. 16, Ja.-My.
Statistics. Hist., Theory, and Method, as applied to Econ. Investigation.* ii, 16, Au.-D
Local Govt. and Admin. —?

 

CHICAGO.

 40 Graduate Students, 1897-8; and 40 in Summer Quarter, ‘97, in Political Economy;55 Graduate Students, 1897-8; and 95 in Summer Quarter, ’97, in Sociology. Pol. Econ., Club and Social Science Club fortnightly. Dept. libs. of Pol. Econ., Sociol. and Anthropol. have leading magazines and 6,000 vols. In Anthropol. Dept. of Walker Museum, coll. of 3,000 pieces on Archaeol. of Mexico,valuable colls. on Cliff and Cave Dwellings, and Japan and Aleutian Islands; also complete anthropometrical apparatus. Access to the Fieid Columbian Museum. 6 Fels. in Pol. Econ. 4 in Sociol. 1 Fel. in Anthropol.

 

J. Laurence Laughlin, Head Prof. of Pol. Econ.
A.B., Harv., ’73; A.M., and Ph.D., ’76;
Instr. in Pol. Econ., same, ’83-8; Prof. Pol. Econ. and Finance, Cornell, ’90-2.

Money and Banking. iv, 12, Jul.-S.
Seminar. ii, 12, O.-D.
Money. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.
Seminar. ii, 12, Ja.-Mar.
Unsettled Problems. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.
Seminar. ii, 12, Ap.-Jun.

 

Bernard Moses, Prof. of History and Political Economy, Univ. of Cal.
Ph.B., Univ. of Mich., ’70; Ph.D., Heidelberg, ‘73;
Prof. of History and Engl. Lit., Albion Col. ’75; Prof. of Hist. Univ. Cal. ’75-6; Prof. Hist. and Pol. Econ. Univ. Cal. ’76.

Practical Economics.* iv, 12, Jul.-S., and O.-D.
Advanced Course on Theory. iv, 12, Jul.-S., and O.-D.

 

Adolph C. Miller, Prof. of Finance.
A.B., California, ‘87 A.M., Harv., ‘88;
Instr., in Pol. Econ., Harv., ’89-’00; Lect. on Pol. Econ., California, ’90-1, and Asst. Prof.-elect of Hist. and Pol. Sci., same, ’91; Assoc. Prof. Pol. Econ. and Finance, Cornell, ’91-2; Assoc. Prof. Pol. Econ., Chicago, ’92-3.

[Public Finance. iv, 12, O.-D.]
[Economic and Social Hist. iv, 24, Ja.-Jun.]
Public Finance.* iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.
Financial Hist.* U. S. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.
[Pol. Econ (adv).* iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.]
[Taxation. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.]
Seminar in Finance. ii, 12, Ja.-Mar.

 

William Hill, Asst. Prof. of Pol. Econ.
A.B., Kansas, ’90; A.B., Harv., ’91, and A.M., ’92;
Fellow, Harv., ‘91-3; Instr. Pol. Econ., same, ’93; Tutor Pol. Econ., Chicago, ’93-4; Instr., same, ’94-7.

Tariff Hist.* iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.
Railway Transportation.* iv, 12, O.-D.
Oral Debates.* ii, 24, O.-Mar. (With Messrs. Damon and Lovett.)
Comparative Railway Legislation.* iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.
Banking.* iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.
Money and Banking. iv, 12, O.-D.

 

Thorstein B. Veblen, Instr. in Pol. Econ.
A.B., Carleton, ‘80; Ph.D., Yale, ‘84;
Fellow in Economics and Finance, Cornell, ’91-2; Fellow, Chicago, ’92-3; Reader in Pol. Econ., same, ’93-4; Tutor, same, ’94-6.

Hist. of Pol. Econ.* iv, 12, O.-D.
Scope and Method of Pol. Econ.* iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.
Socialism. iv, 24, Ja.-Jun.
American Agriculture. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.
Economic Factors of Civilization. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.

 

Henry Rand Hatfield, Instr. in Pol. Econ.
A.B., Northwestern, ’92; Ph.D., Chicago, ’97;
Prof. of Pol. Econ. Washington Univ., ’95-7.

Railway Accounts, Exchanges, etc.* iv, 12, O.-D.
Processes of Leading Industries. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.
Coöperation.* iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.

 

A.W. Small, Head Prof. of Sociol.
A.B., Colby, ’76, and A.M.’79; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ’89;
Prof. Hist. and Pol. Econ., Colby, ’81-8; Reader in Hist., Johns Hopkins, ’88-9; Pres., Colby, ’89-’92.

Social Teleology. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.
Sociol. Methodology. viii, 6, Jul.-Au., and iv, 12, O.-D.
[Philos. of Soc. iv. 12, O.-D. State and Govt., Ja.-Mar. Socialism, Ap.-Jun. Social Functions U.S. Govt. iv, 6, Jul.-Au. Contemp. Soc, Jul.-Au.]
[Sem. Probs. in Social Teleology. ii, 36, O.-Jun.]
Social Dynamics. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.
[Historical Sociology. iv, 12, Ja.- Mar.]
[Outlines of Constructive Social Philos. Philos. of Society. iv, 12, O.-D. The Social Problem. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar. Philos. of State and Govt. iv, 12, Ap.-S.]
[Seminar. Problems of Social Dynamics. ii, 36, O.-Jun.]
Seminar. Problems in Methodology and Classification. ii, 36, O.-Jun.
[Am. Experience with State Control of Social Action. iv, Ja.-Mar.]
Controlling Ideas of Modern Society. iv, 12. Ap.-Jun., and iv, 6, Jul.-Au.
[Some Pending Problems in Sociology. iv, 6, Jul.-Au.]
[The Sociological Method of Stating the Social Problem and of Arranging Evidence, Applied to a Selected Hist. Period. iv, 6, Jul.-Au.]
[Comparative Study of Social Forces in Am. and French Democracy. iv, 6, O.-D.]

 

C. R. Henderson, Assoc. Prof. of Sociol.
A.B., Old Univ. of Chicago, ’70, and A.M., ‘73; D.B. Baptist Union Theol. Sem., ’73; D.D., same, ’83;
Assist. Prof. Sociol., Chicago, ’92-4.

Methods of Social Amelioration. Sem. ii, 36, O.-Jun.
[The Domestic Inst. iv, 12, O.-D.]
Associations for Sociability and Culture. iv, 12, O.-D.
[Social Reform. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.]
[Beneficent Forces of Cities. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.]
Social Inst. of Organized Christianity. iv, 12, O.-D.
Social Treatment of Crime. iv, 6, Au.-S.
[Bibl. and Eccles. Social Theories. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.]
[Field Work in Local Institutions of Charity and Correction. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.]
The Family.* iv, 12, O.-D.
The Labor Movement.* iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.
Amelioration of Rural Life. iv, 6, Jul.-Au.
Modern Cities. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.
Contemporary Charities. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.
Philanthropy. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.

 

Marion Talbot, Assoc. Prof. of Sanitary Science.
A.B., Boston Univ.’80, and A.M., ’82; B.S., Mass. Inst. of Technology, ’88;
Instr. Domestic Science, Wellesley, ’90-2.

General Hygiene.* iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.
Seminar. Sanitary Science.* iv, 36, O.-Jun.
House Sanitation.* iv, 12, O.-D.
Economy of Living. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.
Sanitary Aspects of Water, Food, and Clothing. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.

 

Charles Zueblin, Assoc. Prof. of Sociol.
Ph.B., Northwestern, ’87; D.B., Yale, ’89.

Social Philos. of Eng. People in the Victorian Era. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun. and Jul.-S.
Structure of Eng. Society.* iv, 12, Ap.-Jun. and Jul.-S.

 

G. E. Vincent, Asst. Prof. of Sociology.
A.B., Yale, ’85; Ph.D., Chicago, ’96;
Vice-Principal, Chautauqua System, ‘88-pr; Fellow in Sociology, Chicago, ’92-4.

Course in Statistics.
[Province of Sociol. iv, 12, O.-D.]
[Social Structure. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.]
The Social Mind and Education. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.
Contemporary Society in the U. S.* iv, 12, O.-D.
Am. City Life.* iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.
Introd. to Study of Society.* iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.
Introd. to Sociology,* iv, 12, O.-D.
The Theory of the Social Mind. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.

 

W. I. Thomas, Asst. Prof. of Sociol.

A.B., Univ. of Tenn., ’84; A.M., ’85; Ph.D., Chicago, ’96;
Prof. of English, Oberlin, ’89—’93; Fellow in Sociol., Chicago, ’93-4; Instr. in Folk-psychology, Chicago, ’95-6.

Folk-psychol. iv, 12, O.-D., and Ap.-Jun.
[Primitive Social Control. iv, 12, O.-D. Seminar.]
[Art and Amusement in Folk-psychol. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar. Sex. Ap.-Jun.]
[Analogy and Suggestion in Folk-psychol. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar. The Child. Ap.-Jun.]
[Intro. to Study of Soc.* iv, 12, Jul.-S.]
Ethnological Æsthetic. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.
The Primitive Social Mind. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.
Sex in Folk-psychology. iv, 12, Ja.-Mar.
[Hungarian and South Slavonian Ethnology and Folk-psychol. iv, 12, O.-D.]
Primitive Social Control. iv, 12, O.-D.

 

Lester F. Ward, Professorial Lecturer in Sociol., Smithsonian Institution.
A.B., Columbia, ‘69; LL.B., same, ‘71; A.M., ’73; LL.D., ’97.

Dynamic Sociology. iv, 4, Au.-S.
Social Mechanics. vi, 4, Au.-S.

 

Henry W. Thurston, Instr. in Econ. and Civics, Hyde Park High School.
A.B., Dartmouth, ’86.

A Method of Applying Sociological Pedagogy to the Teaching of Economics in Secondary Schools. iv, 6, Jul.-Au.

 

Frederick Starr, Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology.
S.B., Lafayette, ‘82; S.M. and Ph.D., ’85;
Prof. Biological Sciences, Coe Col., ‘84-8; in charge Dept. Ethnology, Am. Mus. of Natural Hist., ‘89-’91.

Lab. Work in Anthropology. iv, 36, O.-Jun.
Physical Anthropol. Lab. iv, 36, O.-Jun.
[Physical Anthropol. iv, 12, O.-D.]
Mexico Archaeology, Ethnology. iv, 12, Jul.-S.
General Anthropol.* iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.
Ethnology American Race. iv, 12, Jul.-S.
Prehistoric Archaeology. American. iv, 12, O.-D.
[Field Work in Anthropol. Mexico. Jul.-S.]
Prehistoric Archaeol. European. iv, 12, O.-D.
General Ethnology.* v, 12, Jul.-S.
General Anthropology.* iv, 6, Jul.-Au.
Ethnology American Race. iv, 6, O.-N.
Mexico. Archaeology, Ethnology. iv, 6, Au.-S.
[Comparative Technology. iv, 36, O.-Jun.]

 

Merton Leland Miller, Lecturer in Anthropology.

A.B., Colby Univ., ’90; Ph.D., Chicago. ’97.
Instr. Eureka Acad., ’92; Grad. Stud. at Chicago, ’92-7; Asst. In Anthropol. Mus., ‘94-7;

The Peoples of Europe. iv, 6. O.-N.
Physical Anthropology. Laboratory Work. iv, 36, O.-Jun.

 

J. H. Breasted, Asst. Prof. of Egyptology and Semitic Langs.; Asst. Dir. of Haskell Museum.
A.B., Northwestern, ’88;A.M., Yale, ‘92; A.M. and Ph.D., Berlin, ’94;
non-res. Fellow, Chicago, ’92-4; Asst. in Egyptology.

Chicago-Egyptian Life and Antiquities. iv, 12, Ap.-Jun.

 

C. H. Hastings.
A.B., Bowdoin, ’91.

Bibliography of Sociology. iv, 6, Au.-S.

 

 

COLUMBIA.

63 Graduate Students, 1897-8.
[All graduate courses under 10 open to Barnard Graduate Students.]

 

Richmond Mayo-Smith, Prof. of Pol. Econ. and Social Science.
Ph.D. (hon.), Amherst.

Pol. Econ. (el).* iii, 14, F.-Jun. (With Mr. Day.)
Pract. Pol. Econ:
(a) Problems of Mod. Industry. iii, 16, O.-F.
(b) Problems of Exchange. iii, 14, F.-Jun.
(c) Problems of Distribution. iii, 14, F.-Jun
(d) Readings in Marshall’s “Prin. of Econ.” i, 30.
Statistics and Sociology. ii, 16, O.-F.
Statistics and Economics. ii, 14, F.- Jun.
Theory, Technique, and Hist. of Statis. Sci. ii, 14, F.-Jun.
Seminar. Statistics. i, 30.
Seminar. Pract. Econ. i, 30.

 

Edwin R. A. Seligman, Prof. of Pol. Econ. and Finance.
LL.B., Ph.D., Columbia, ’84.

Econ. Hist. of Europe and America. ii, 16, O.-F. (With Mr. Day.)
Sci. of Finance. ii, 30.
Fiscal and Indus. Hist. of U. S. ii, 16, O.-F.
Hist. of Economics. ii, 30.
Railroad Problems. ii, 14, F.-Jun.
[Hist. of Pol. Econ. ii, 30.]
Seminar. Pol. Econ. and Finance. i, 30.

 

John B. Clark, Prof. of Pol. Econ.
Ph.D., Amherst, ’75;
Prof. Hist. and Pol. Econ., Carleton, ’77-’82; Prof. of same, Smith, ’82-’93; Lect. Johns Hopkins, ‘92-5; Prof. Pol. Econ., Amherst, ’92-5.

Econ. Theory. Statics. ii, 16, O.-F.
Dynamics. ii, 14, F.-Jun.
Communistic and Socialistic Theories. ii, 16, O.-F.
Theories of Social Reform. ii, 14. F.-Jun.
Seminar. Pol. Econ. i, 30.

 

Franklin H. Giddings, Prof. of Sociology.
A.M., Union.

General Sociology. ii, 16, O.-F.
Progress and Democracy. ii, 14, F.-Jun.
Pauperism, Poor Laws, and Charities. ii, 16, O.-F.
Crime and Penology ii, 14, F.-Jun.
Seminar. Sociology. i, 30.

 

William Z. Ripley, Lect. on Anthropology.
B.S., Mass. Inst. of Tech , ’90; A.M., Columbia, ’92; Ph.D., Columbia, ’93;
Assoc. Prof. Pol. Econ. and Sociol., Mass. Inst. of Tech., 94-7; Lect., Hartford School of Sociology, ’95-6.

Physical Geog. Anthropol. and Ethnology. ii, 16, O.-F.

 

Livingston Farrand, Instr. in Physiolog. Psychol.
A.M., Princeton, ’91; M.D., Columbia, ’91.

General Anthropology. ii, 14, F.-Jun.
Anthropology. Primitive Culture. ii, 30.

 

Franz Boaz, Inst. in Anthropol.
Ph.D., Kiehl, ’81.

Phys. Anthropol. ii, 30.
Applica. of Statistical Methods to Biolog. Problems (adv). iii, 30.
North Am. Langs. Seminar. ii, 30.

 

George J. Bayles.
Ph.D., Columbia, ’95.

Civil Aspects of Ecclesiastical Organizations. i, 30.

 

 

CORNELL.
14 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

 

J. W. Jenks, Prof. of Pol. Econ. and Civil and Social Instit.
A.B., Michigan, ’78, and A.M., ’79; Ph.D., Halle, ’85;
Prof. Pol. Econ., Knox, and Indiana State Univ.; Prof. of Polit., Municipal, and Social Institutions, ’91-2.

Economic Legislation.* ii, 32.
Economics and Politics.*

 

Charles H. Hull, Asst. Prof. of Pol. Econ.
Ph.B.. Cornell, ’86; Ph.B., Halle, ’92;
Instr. in Pol. and Sociol. Institutions, Cornell. ’92-3.

Money, Credit, and Banking*. iii, 32.
Railroad Transportation.* iii, 9, Ap.- Jun.
Finance, Taxation, Admin.* Public Debts. ii, 32.
Recent Econ. Theory. Am., Eng., Continental.* ii, 32.
Earlier Econ. Theory (Prior to J. S. Mill).* ii, 32.
Economic and Commercial Geography. ii, 23, O.-Mar.
Seminary. ii. 32.

 

Chas. J. Bullock, Instr. in Economics.
A.B., Boston, ’89; Ph.D., Wisconsin, ’95.

Industrial Hist., Eng. and Am.* ii, 32.
Internat. Trade and Tariff Hist. U. S.* ii, 32.
Labor Question.* ii, 12, S.-D.
Hist. Trades Unions.* ii, ll, Ja.-Mar.
Socialism.* ii, 9, Ap.-Jun.

 

Walter F. Willcox, Prof. of Social Science and Statistics.
A.B., Amherst; Ph.D., Columbia;
Instr. in Philos., Cornell, ’91-2; Asst. Prof. Social Science and Pol. Econ., ’92-4.

Social Science (el).* ii, 32.
Social Statistics.* ii, 32.
[Theoretical Social Science (adv).* ii, 32.]
Practical Social Science (adv).* ii, 32.
[Anthropology.* ii, 32.]
Philos. and Pol. Econ.* ii, 32.
Seminary. ii, 32.

 

Wm. E. Baldwin, Pres. Long Island R. R.
A.B., Harvard, ’85.

Pract. Railroad Management. Lects. i-ii, Ja.-Mar.

 

Charlton T. Lewis, Counsel Mutual Life Ins. Co.

Principles of Insurance. Lects. i, 15,
—?

B. F. Fernow, Director of Col. of Forestry.
Grad. State Col. of Forestry, Münden, Prussia;
Chief of Dir. of Forestry, U. S. Dept. of Agric, ’86-’92, LL.D., Wisconsin.

Forestry: Econ and Pol. Aspects. ii, 21, Ja.-Jun.

 

 

HARVARD.
21 Graduate Students, 1897-8.
(Courses marked [R] are open to Radcliffe Graduate Students.)

Fel. in Pol. Econ., $450; in Soc. Sci., $500; in Archaeol. and Ethnol., $500 and $1,050, and Schol. of $200. Prize of $150 for Essay in Pol. Sci., two of $100 each for essays on social questions. Peabody Mus., Am. Archaeol., and Ethnol., with Lib., is intended for research.

 

Charles F. Dunbar, Prof. of Pol. Econ.
A.B., Harv., ’51; LL.D., same, ’91.

Financial Legislation of U. S.* ii, 15, F.-Jun.
[Financial Admin. and Pub. Debts. iii, 15, F.-Jun.]
Money and Banking. v, 15, O.-Ja.
Seminary. Economics. i, 30. (With Prof. Taussig and Asst. Prof. Cummings.)

 

Frank W. Taussig, Prof. of Pol. Econ.
A.B., Harv., ’79; Ph.D., ’83, and LL.B., ’86.

Econ. Theory in the 19th Cent.* iii, 30. (With Prof. MacVane.)
[Theory and Methods of Taxation. Special ref. to U. S. Local Taxation.* ii-iii, 15, O.-Ja.]
Scope and Method of Economic Theory and Investigation.* ii-iii, 30.

 

William J. Ashley, Prof. of Econ. Hist.
A.B., Oxford, ’81, and A.M., ’85; Fel., Lincoln Col., and Lect. on Hist., Lincoln and Corpus Christi Col., Oxford, ’85-8; Prof. Pol. Econ. and Const. Hist., Toronto, ’88-, ‘92.

[Mediaeval Economic Hist. of Europe.* ii-iii, 30.]
[Hist. and Lit. of Economics to close of 18th Cent.* ii-iii, 30.]

 

Edward Cummings, Asst. Prof. of Sociology.
A.B., Harv., ’83; A.M., same, ’85.

Princ. of Sociology. Devel. of Modern State.* ii-iii, 30.
Socialism and Communism.* ii-iii, 30.
Labor Question in Europe and U. S.* iii, 30. (With Dr. John Cummings.)

 

John Cummings, Instr. in Pol. Econ.
A.B., Harv., 91; Ph.D., Chicago, ’94.

Theory and Methods of Statistics*. iii, 30.

 

H. R. Meyer, Instr. in Pol. Econ.
A.B., Harv. ’92; A.M., ’94.

Public Works, Railways, etc., under Corporate and Pub. Management.* iii, 15, F.-Jun.

 

G. S. Callender, Instr. in Pol. Econ.
A.B., Oberlin Col., ’91; A.B., Harv., ’93; A.M., ’94; Ph.D., ’97.

Economic Hist. of the U. S.*
Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th Cents.* ii-iii, 15, F.-Jun.
Western Civilization in its Economic Aspects.* ii-iii, 15, F.-Jun.

 

Francis G. Peabody, Prof. of Christian Morals.
A.B., Harv., ’69; A.M. and S.T.B., ’72; S.T.D., Yale, ‘87.

[Ethics of Social Questions.* iii, 30. (With Dr. Rand.)]
[Sociolog. Sem. Christian Doct. of the Social Order. ii, 30.]

 

Frederick W. Putnam, Prof, of Archaeology and Ethnology, and Curator of Peabody Museum.
A.M. (hon,), Williams, ’68; S.D.(hon.), Univ. of Pa., ’94;
Curator Dept. Anthropol., Am. Mus., Central Park, N. Y.

Primitive Religion. iii, 30. (With Mr. Dixon.)

[R] Am. Archaeol. and Ethnol. Research.

 

F. Russell, Asst. in Anthropology.
S.B., Univ., of Iowa, ’92, and S.M., ’95; Asst., same, ’94-5.

Gen. Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethnology.* iii, 30. (With an Asst.)
[R] Somatology. iii, 15, F.-Jun.
[R] Somatology (adv). Research—?

 

 

JOHNS HOPKINS.
9 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

 

Sidney Sherwood, Assoc. Prof. of Pol. Econ.
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ’91.

Legal Aspects of Economics. ii, 15, O.-F.
Corporations and Economics. ii, 15, F.-My.
Econ. Conference. ii, 30.
Economic Theory. ii. 30.
Economics (adv).* ii, 15, O.-F.

 

Jacob H. Hollander, Assoc. in Economics.
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ’94.

Development of Economic Theories. ii, 15, O.-F.
Financial Hist. of U. S. ii, 15, F.-My.
Economics (adv)*. ii, 15, F.-My.
Current Congressional Happenings.* i, 30.

 

 

LELAND STANFORD, JR.
2 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

Hopkins Railway Library, about 10,000 vols.; Transportation, Railway History, Economics, and Law.

 

Amos G. Warner, Prof, of Applied Economics.
B.L., Nebraska, ’85; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ’88;
Prof,of Pol. Econ., Nebraska, ’87-’91.

[Corporate Industry.* iii, 15, S.-D.]
[Personal Economics.* ii, 15, S.-D.]
Seminary. (With Ross and Durand.) ii, 32.

 

Edward A. Ross, Prof. of Sociology.
A.B., Coe Col., ’86; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ’91;
Prof. of Econ. and Social Science, Indiana, ’91-2; Assoc. Prof. of Pol. Econ, and Finance, Cornell, ’92-3.

[Economic Theory (adv). ii, 15, S.- D.]
[Sociology.* iii, 32.]

 

Mary R. Smith, Asst. Prof. of Social Sci.
Ph.B., Cornell, ’80, and M.S., ’82; Ph.D., Stanford, ‘96;
Instr. in Hist. and Econ., Wellesley, ’86- ’90.

[Statistics and Sociology.* iii, 17, Ja.-My.]

 

Edward D. Durand, Asst. Prof. of Finance and Administration.
A.B., Oberlin, ’93; Ph.D., Cornell, ’96;
Legislative Librarian, N. Y. State Library, ’96-7; Student, Berlin, ’97.

Practical Economic Questions.* iii, 17, Ja.-My.

 

 

MICHIGAN.
10 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

 

Henry C. Adams, Prof, of Pol. Econ. and Finance.
A.B., Iowa Col., ’74; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ’78;
Lect., Johns Hopkins, and Cornell; Statistician to Interstate Commerce Commission: Special Expert Agent on Transportation, 11th Cens.; Director of Economics, School of Applied Ethics.

[Devel. and Significance of Eng. Pol. Econ. iii, 6, O.-N.]
Devel. and Significance of Hist. School of Econ. iii, 6, O.-N.
[Devel. and Significance of Austrian School of Econ. iii, 6, O.-N.]
Relations of the State to Industrial Action. iii, 6, F.-Mar.
[Labor Organizations and Corporations as Factors in Industrial Organization. iii, 6, F.-Mar.]
History of Industrial Society.* ii, 17, O.-F.
Transportation Problems. iii, 17, F.- Jun.
Sem. Economics. ii, 17, O.-F.

 

F. M. Taylor, Junior Prof. of Pol. Econ. and Finance.
A.B., Northwestern, ’76, and A.M., ‘79; Ph.D., Mich., ’88;
Prof. of Hist. and Politics, Albion, ’79-’92.

Hist. and Theory of Money and Banking.* ii, 17. O.-F.
Hist. of Pol. Econ. ii, 17, F.-Jun.
Principles of Finance.* ii, 17, F.-Jun.
Sem. Economics. ii, 17, F.-Jun.
Socialism.* ii, 17; F.-Jun.
[The Value of Money, Theory, and Statistics. iii, 6, O.-N.]
[The Standard of Value. iii, 6, N.-D.]
Paper Money. iii, 6, O.-N.
[Social Philos., with spec. ref. to Econ. Probs. iii, 6, F.-Mar.]
[Credit as a factor in Production. iii, 6, Mar.-Ap.]
The Agricult. Problem. iii, 6, Mar.-Ap.

 

C. H. Cooley, Instr. in Sociology.
A.B., Mich., ’87; Ph.D., same, ’94.

Principles of Sociology.* iii, 17, O.-F. Problems, F.-Jun.
Sociology (adv).* ii, 17, F.-Jun.
Histor. Devel. of Sociolog. Thought. iii, 6, Ja.-F.
Nature and Process of Social Change. iii, 6, My.-Jun.
[Aims and Methods in Study of Society. iii, 6, Ja.-F.]
Social Psychology. iii, 6, My.-Jun.
[Current Changes in Social Organization of U. S. iii, 6, My.-Jun.]
[Theory of Population. iii, 6, Ja.-F.]
Theory of Statistics.* i, 34.
Special Studies in Statistics.* ii, 17, F.-Jun.

 

 

MINNESOTA.
26 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

 

William W. Folwell, Prof. of Pol. Science.
A.B.,Hobart, ’57; A.M., ’60; LL.D., ’80;
Prof. Math., Hobart, ’59-’61; Prof. Math. and Engineering, Kenyon Col., ‘69; Pres., Univ. of Minn., ’69-’84.

Pol. Sci. Sem. i, 36.
Individual Research. ii, 36.

 

Frank L. McVey, Instr. in Economics.
A.B., Ohio Wesleyan, ‘93; Ph.D., Yale, ‘95;
Instr. in Hist. Teachers’ College, N. Y., ’96.

Comparative Econ. Doctrine. ii, 36.
Economics.* iv, 13, S.-N.
Modern Industrialism.* iv, 12, Mar.-Jun.

 

Samuel G. Smith, Lecturer on Sociology.
A.B., Cornell Col., ’72; A.M.. and Ph.D., Syracuse, ’84; D.D., Upper Iowa Univ., ’86.

Social Sci.* iii, 12, Mar.-Jun.
Indiv. Research. i, 36.

 

 

MISSOURI.
3 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

 

F. C. Hicks, Prof, of Hist. and of Pol. Econ.
A.B., Univ. of Mich., ’86; Ph.D., same, ’90.

Economic History.* iii, 36.
Problems in Economics.* iii, 36.
Modern Financial Systems.* ii, 36.
Seminar. ii, 36

 

 

NEW YORK.
21 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

 

Frank M. Colby, Prof. of Economics.
A.B., Columbia, ’88, and A.M., ’89.

Practical Economics. ii, 24.
Economic Theory. ii, 24.
Hist. of Indust. Devel. ii, 30.

 

I. F. Russell, Prof. of Sociology, and of Law in N. Y. U. Law School.

A.M., N. Y. U., ‘78; LL.M., Yale, ‘79; D.C.L., Yale, ‘80; LL.D., Dickinson, ‘93;
Prof. Econ., and Const. Law, N. Y. U., ’80-’93.

[Intro. to Sociology. ii, 30.]
Principles of Sociology. ii, 30.

 

 

NORTHWESTERN.
6 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

 

John H. Gray, Prof. of Political and Social Science.
A.B., Harv., ‘87; Ph.D., Halle, ‘92;
Instr. in Econ., Harv., ’87-9.

Administration. ii, 36.
[Finance.* ii, 36.]
Seminary.* ii, 36.

 

William Caldwell, Prof. of Moral and Social Philosophy.
A.M., Pass Degree, Edinburgh, ’84; A.M., and Honors of First Class, same, ’86;
Asst. Prof. of Philos., same, ’88-’90; Instr., Cornell, ’90-1; Instr., Chicago, ’92-4; Fellow, Edinburgh, ’86-’93, and Sc.D., ’93.

Seminary. Ethical Philos.* ii, 36.
Seminary. Sociology.* iii, 36.

 

 

PENNSYLVANIA.
12 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

Colwell Lib. of Pol. Econ., 7,000 vols. Carey Lib., valuable for economic history, including 3,000 Eng. pams. 1 Fel. $500 + tui; 1 Schol. in Hist. and Economics, $100 + tui.

 

Simon N. Patten, Prof. of Pol. Econ.
Ph.D., Halle.

Hist. of Pol. Econ. ii, 15, O.-F.
Recent Devel. of Pol. Econ. ii, 15, F.-My.
Relat. of Eng. Philos. to Econ. in 18th Cent. ii, 15, O.-F.
[Scope and Method of Pol. Econ. ii, 15, F.-My.]
[Pract. Applications of Econ. Theory. ii, 12, O.-F.]
Problems of Sociol. ii, 15, F.-My.
Special Topics. ii, 30.

 

Henry R. Seager, Asst. Prof. of Pol. Econ.
Ph.B., Mich., ‘90; Ph.D.. Univ. of Pa., ’94;
Instr. in Pol. Econ., same, ’94-6.

Econ. Conference. ii, 30.
Adv. Reading in Ger. and Fr. Economics. ii, 30.
Eng. Indust. Hist. and Devel. of Econ. Theory, 1750-1870. ii, 15, F.-My.

 

Emory R. Johnson, Asst. Prof. of Transportation and Commerce.
B.L., Univ. of Wis., ‘88; M.L., same, ’91; Fel. in Econ., Univ. of Pa., ’92-3; Ph.D., same, ‘93;
Lect. on Transporta., same, ’93-4; Instr., same, ’94-6; Instr. in Econ., Haverford, ’93-6.

Theory of Transportation. i, 30.
[Am. Railway Transportation. ii, 30. ]
Transportation Systems of the United Kingdom and Germany. i, 30.
Hist. of Commerce since 1500. 1, 30.

 

Roland P. Falkner, Assoc. Prof. of Statistics.
Ph.B., Univ. of Pa.. ’85; Ph.D., Halle, ‘88;
Instr. in Statistics, ’88-’91.

Intro. to Statistics. ii, 15, O.-F.
Statistics of Econ. Problems. ii, 15, F.-My.
Hist. and Theory of Statistics. ii, 15, O.-F.
Statistical Organization. ii, 15, F.-My.

 

Samuel McC. Lindsay, Asst. Prof. of Sociol.
Ph.B., Univ. of Pa., ’89; Ph.D., Halle, ’92.

Theory of Sociol. (2 yr. course). ii, 30.
Social-Debtor Classes. ii, 30.
Sociol. Field Work. ii, 30.
Seminary. ii, 30.

 

 

PRINCETON.
5 Graduate Students, 1887-8.
1 Fellowship, $500.

 

Winthrop M. Daniels, Prof. of Pol. Econ.
A.B., Princeton, ’88, and A.M., ’90;
Instr. Wesleyan, ’91-2.

Public Finance.* ii, 18, S.-Ja.
Hist. of Pol. Econ.* ii, 18, F.-My.

 

W. A. Wyckoff, Lect. on Sociology.
A.B., Princeton, ’88, and A.M., ’91.

Sociology.* ii, 18, F.-My.

 

 

RADCLIFFE.
4 Graduate Students, 1897-8.
[See Harvard Courses marked “[R]”.]

Seminary in Econ. (With Prof. Taussig and Asst. Prof. Cummings.)

 

W. J. Ashley.

[Med. Econ. Hist. of Europe.* iii,30.]

 

Dr. Cunningham, Trinity Col., Cam. Eng.

Industrial Revolution in Eng. in 18th and 19th Cents.* iii, 15, F.-Jun.

 

G. S. Callender.

Econ. Hist. of U. S.*

 

Edward Cummings.

Princ. of Sociol.* iii, 30.

 

Edward Cummings and John Cummings.

Soc. and Econ. Conditions of Workingmen.* iii, 30.

 

John Cummings.

Statistics, Theory, Methods, Practice.*

(Of last three courses, two only will be given in 1898-9.)

 

F. Russell.

Gen. Anthropol.* —?

 

 

VANDERBILT.
2 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

 

Frederick W. Moore, Adj. Prof. of Hist. and Econ.
A.B., Yale, ’86, and Ph.D., ’90

 

Chas. F. Emerick, Asst. in Economics.
A.B., Wittenberg, ’89; Ph.M., Mich., ’95; Ph.D., Columbia, ’97.

Theory of Pol. Econ. Growth of Corporate Industry. iii, 32.
A Study of Socialism.* iii, 16.

 

 

WELLESLEY.
o Graduate Students, 1897-8.

 

Katharine Coman, Prof. of Hist. and Pol. Econ.
Ph.B., Mich., ’80.

Indust. Hist. of U. S.* iii, 17, F.-Jun.
[Indust. Hist. of Eng.* iii, 17, S.-Ja.]
Statistical Study of Problems in the U.S. iii, 17, S.-Ja.

 

Emily Greene Balch, Instr. in Economics.
A.B., Bryn Mawr.

Socialism.* iii, 17, F.-Jun.
Evolution and Present Conditions of Wage Labor.* iii, 17, S.-Ja.
Social Economics.* iii, 17, S.-Ja.; also F.-Jun.

 

 

WESTERN RESERVE.
4 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

S. F. Weston, Assoc. Prof. of Pol. and Soc. Sci.
A.B., Antioch, ’79, and A.M., ’85; Asst. in Economics, Columbia, ’92-4.

Social Theories.* iii, 17, F.-Jun.
Pauperism and Charities.* iii, 17, F.-Jun.
Money and Banking.* iii, 17, F.-Jun.
U.S. Tariff and Revenue System. iii, 17, F.-Jun.
Economic History of England.* iii, 16, S.-Ja.
Economic History of United States.* iii, 16, S.-Ja.
The State.* iii, 16, S.-Ja.
Civil Government.* iii, 16, S.-Ja.
Social Problems.* iii, 17, F.-Jun.
Economic Theories. iii, 36.

 

 

WISCONSIN.
24 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

Location at State capital gives special facilities for studying the State’s activities and methods of administration. Field work in charitable and correctional institutions in Madison and Chicago. Opportunity for continuous practical work during summer months.

 

Richard T. Ely, Prof. of Pol. Econ. and Director of the Sch. of Econ., Pol. Science and Hist.
A.B., Columbia, ’76; Ph.D., Heidelberg, ‘79; LL.D., Hobart, ’92;
Chair of Pol. Econ., Johns Hopkins, ’81-’92.

Distribution of Wealth. iii, 72, S.-Jun. (This course is to run through ’98- ’99, and ’99-1900.)
Public Finance. iii, 18, S.-F.
Taxation and Am. Public Finance. iii, 18, F.-Jun.
[Social Ethics. ii, 18, S.-F.]
[Socialism. ii, 18, S.-F.
Economic Seminary. Recent Devel. of Econ. Theory. ii, 36. (With Prof. Scott and Dr. Jones.)

 

William A. Scott, Prof. of Econ. Hist. and Theory.
A.B., Rochester, ‘86; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, ’92.
Prof. Hist. and Pol. Econ., Univ. So. Dak., ’87-’90; Instr. in Hist., Johns Hopkins, ’91-2;

[Theories of Value. ii, 18, S.-F.]
Theories of Rent, Wages, Profits, and Interest. ii, 36, S.-F.
[Theories of Production and Consumption. ii, 18, F.-Jun.]
Classical Economists. iii, 18, F.-Jun.

 

Edward D. Jones, Instr. in Econ. and Statistics.
B.S., Ohio Wesleyan Univ., ’92; Halle and Berlin, ’93-4; Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin, ’95.

Economic Geography. ii, 18, S.-F.
Statistics. iii, 18, F.-Jun.
Charity and Crime. iii, 18, S.-F.

 

Balthasar H. Meyer, Instr. in Sociol. and Transportation.
B.L., Univ. of Wis., ’94; Berlin, ’94-5; Fel. Univ. of Wis., ’95-7; Ph.D., Univ. of Wis., ’97.

Elements of Sociology.* iii, 18, S.-F.
Psychological Sociologists.* ii, 18, S.-F.
Modern Sociological Thought. iii, 18, F.-Jun.
Transportation. ii, 18, F.-Jun.

 

Frank C. Sharp, Asst. Prof. of Philos.
A.B., Amherst, ’87; Ph.D., Berlin, ’92.

Social Ethics. ii, 18, F.-Jun.
Readings in Ger. Social Philos. ii, 18, S.-F.

 

 

YALE.
43 Graduate Students, 1897-8.

Pol. Science Club meets fortnightly. Club Room with Library for Graduate Students.

 

W. G. Sumner, Prof. of Pol. and Soc. Sci.
A.B., Yale, ’63; LL.D., Tenn., ’84.

Anthropology. ii, 32.
Systematic Societology. ii, 32.
[Indust. Rev. Renaissance Period. ii,32.]
[Begin. of Indust. Organization. ii,32.]
Science of Society.* (German.) ii, 32.

 

H. W. Farnam, Prof. of Pol. Econ.
A.B., Yale, ’74; R.P.D., Strassburg, ’78.

[Pauperism. ii, O.-D.]
Modern Organiza. of Labor. ii, 20, Ja.-Jun.]
Princs. Pub. Finance. ii, 32.

 

A. T. Hadley, Prof. of Pol. Econ.
A.B., Yale, 76, and A.M., ’87.

Econ. Problems of Corporations. i, 32.
Relat. between Econ. and Ethics. ii, 32.
Railroad Transportation.* ii, 32.

 

A. T. Hadley and Irving Fisher.

Economics (gen. course).* iii, 32.

 

W. F. Blackman, Prof. of Christian Ethics.
A.B., Oberlin, ’77; D.B., Yale, ’80; Ph.D., Cornell, ’93.

Social Science. ii, 32.
Lit. of Social. ii, 12, O.-D.
Soc. Study of Family. i, 12, O.-D.
Soc. Teach. and Influence of Christianity. i, 32.

 

J. C. Schwab, Asst. Prof. of Pol. Science.
A.B., Yale, ’86, and A.M., ’88; Ph. D., Göttingen, ’89.

Finance. ii, 32.
U.S. Indust. Hist. ii, 32.
U.S. Financial Hist. i, 32.
Finances of Confed. States, 1861-65. i, 32.

 

Irving Fisher, Asst. Prof. of Pol. Econ.
A.B. Yale, ’88, and Ph.D., ’91.

Principles of Economics (adv). ii, 32.
Statistics. ii, 20, Ja.-Jun.
Vital Statistics and Life Insurance. ii, 12, O.-D.

____________________

Source:  Graduate Courses 1898-99: A Handbook for Graduate Students. (6th edition). (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1899), pp. 80-90.

Categories
Chicago Columbia Courses Harvard

Comparison of Course Offerings. Chicago, Columbia, Harvard ca. 1893-94

Compilations of graduate courses in all fields were published by a Committee of the Graduate Club of Harvard in cooperation with committees of similar clubs at other universities for the last six academic years of the 19th century:

1893-94 edition
1894-95 edition
1895-96 edition
1896-97 edition
1897-98 edition
1898-99 edition

After the sixth edition for 1898-99, the “The publication of the compendium of graduate courses has, for the present at least, been abandoned. This decision was made by the convention after hearing the report of a very careful investigation of the subject by a special committee appointed at the convention of 1897. It was shown that the very
limited number of copies of the Handbook sold did not warrant the continuance of such an expensive publication.” 1899-1900 edition, pp. 3-4.

Here I have selected the course listings from the 1893-94 edition, pp. 47-49. I’ve checked the course listings for Chicago and found they correspond to the course offerings for 1892-93, hence I put “ca.” in the title to this posting. I have rearranged the order to approximate matching course content across the universities.

The cells in the table provide the following information:

  • Instructor
  • Course title
  • Hours per week, Weeks per course, Usual months offered.

An asterisk means the course in question was also open to undergraduates.

Chicago

 Columbia

Harvard
A. C. Miller
Princip. pol econ.
5, 24, Jul.-D.		 Richmond Mayo-Smith
Histor. and pract. pol. econ.
3, 30		 F. W. Taussig
Econom. theory from Adam Smith till present.
3, 31.
A. C. Miller
Adv. pol. econ.
5, 12, Ja.-Mr.
William Caldwell
Descrip. pol. econ.
4, 12, Ja.-Mr.
J. Laurence Laughlin
Hist. pol. econ.
4, 12, A.-Ju.		 W. J. Ashley
El. econm. opinion, down to Adam Smith*
William Caldwell
Hist. pol. econ.
4, 24, Ja.-Ju.
William Caldwell
Scope and method pol. econ.
4, 12, A.-Ju.
Laughlin
Money and pract. Economics.
4, 24, O.-Mr.		 C. F. Dunbar
Banking and hist. of B.*
3, 15, F.-My.
Dr. G. E. Hill
Banking.
4, 12.		 C. F. Dunbar
Internat. paymts. and flow of precious metals.*
3, 16, O.-Ja.
A. C. Miller
Finance.
4, 12, O.-D.		 E. R. A. Seligman
Science of finance.
2, 30.
A. C. Miller
Financ. hist. U.S.
4, 12, A.-Ju.		 E. R. A. Seligman
Financ. hist. U.S.
2, 14, F.-My.		 C. F. Dunbar
Hist. finance legis. in U.S.*
3, 16, O.-Ja.
Dr. G. E. Hill
Railway transportation.
4, 24, O.-Mr.		 E. R. A. Seligman
Railroad probs.
2, 16, O.-Ja.		 F. W. Taussig
Railway transport.
3, 16, O.-Ja.
Dr. G. E. Hill
Indust. and econ. hist.
4, 24, Ja.-Ju.		 W. J. Ashley
Dev. of land-tenures, agrarian condition in Europe.*
1, 31.
William Caldwell
Econ. factors in civilize.
4, 12.		 C. B. Spahr
Distrib. Am. Wealth.
1, 30.
Edward Cummings
Principles of social.; Dev. of mod. state and its soc. functs.*
2,31.
Dr. G. E. Hill
Tariff hist. U.S.
4, 12, A. –Ju.		 F. W. Taussig
Hist. tariff legis. U.S.
2-3, 15, F.-My.
E. W. Bemis
Social economics.
4, 12, A.-Ju.		 F. H. Giddings
Sociology.
2, 16, O.-Ja.		 Edward Cummings
Soc. and econom. cond. of working-men.*
3, 31.
William Caldwell
Social econ., soc. reforms.
4, 12, Jul.-S.		 F. H. Giddings
Origins of family, clan, tribe.
2, 14, O.-Ja.
F. H. Giddings
Crime and penology.
2, 14, F.-My.
T. B. Veblen
Socialism.
4, 24, Ja.-Ju.		 Richmond Mayo-Smith
Communistic and socialist. Theories
2,30.		 Edward Cummings
Ideal soc. reconstr. from Plato to pres.*
1-2, 31.
T. B. Veblen
Am. agriculture.
4, 12, O.-D.
Dr. J. A. Hourwich
Statistics (el.).
4, 12, O.-D.
Dr. J. A. Hourwich
Statistics (adv.).
4, 12, Ja-Mr.		 Richmond Mayo-Smith
Statistical sci.
2, 30.
Laughlin
Econom. sem.
4, 30, O.-Ju.		 Richmond Mayo-Smith
Sem. in pol. econ. and soc. sci.		 All instructors
Seminary in economics.
1,31.
A. C. Miller
Sem. in finance.
4, 36, O.-Ju.

 

Categories
Chicago Regulations

Chicago Economics. General Regulations for Ph.D., 1903

University of Chicago
The Regulations of the University of Chicago
(Chicago, 1903)

[p. 24]

ARTICLE VIII. INSTRUCTION.

Section 1.—Courses of instruction provided by the University are organized under the following Departments:

[p. 25]

The Schools and Colleges of Arts, Literature, and Science.

I.           Philosophy.
II.         Political Economy.
III.       Political Science.
IV.       History.
V.         The History of Art.
VI.       Sociology and Anthropology.
VII.      Comparative Religion.
VIII.     Semitic Languages and Literatures-
IX.        Biblical and Patristic Greek.
X.         Sanskrit and Indo-European Comparative Philology.
XI.       The Greek Language and Literature.
XII.      The Latin Language and Literature.
XIII.     The Romance Languages and Literatures.
XIV.     The Germanic Languages and Literatures.
XV.       The English Language and Literature, and Rhetoric.
XVI.     Literature (in English).
XVII.    Mathematics.
XVIIl.   Astronomy and Astrophysics.
XIX.     Physics.
XX.      Chemistry.
XXI.     Geology.
XXIA.  Geography.
XXII.   Zoology.
XXIII.  Anatomy.
XXIV.  Physiology (including Physiological Chemistry and Pharmacology).
XXV.   Neurology.
XXVI.  Palæontology.
XXVII. Botany.
XXVIll. Pathology and Bacteriology.
XXXI.  Public Speaking.
XXXIl. Physical Culture and Athletics.
XXXIII.Military Science and Tactics.

[…]

Section 2. — Courses of instruction are classified as Majors and Minors, and call for a specific number of hours per week, or the equivalent of the same, as follows: The Major course occupies four or five hours weekly for a Quarter (twelve weeks). The Minor course occupies four or five hours weekly for a Term (six weeks). The Double Major or Double Minor occupies double the [p. 26] weekly time for the Quarter or Term respectively.

  1. Major and Minor courses in the Junior Colleges uniformly occupy five hours weekly.
  2. In the Summer Quarter courses in all the Schools and Colleges occupy five hours weekly.
  3. Seminar work is estimated in Majors or Minors not according to the number of hours occupied weekly, but according to the character of the work required. Determination of the credit value of the Seminar lies within the province of the instructor, subject to the approval of the Head of the Department.

 

Section 3. — The normal work of the student is three courses for each Quarter.

  1. The student is permitted to take two Majors or their equivalent, or one Major, provided that he furnishes satisfactory evidence to his Dean that he is making the proper use of his time.
  2. A student may take four Majors of work during a Quarter. In the case of an under- graduate student this is permitted only on approval of his recent instructors and the payment of an additional fee (see Art. XIII, sec. 7, no. 8).

[…]

[p. 30]

Section 13. — The courses of instruction in the Graduate Schools are elective, except as the election is modified by the previous choice involved in candidacy for a particular degree. (See Art. XI, sees. 4, 6, 8.)

  1. Graduate work done in another institution is accepted as resident work in the University, provided that:
    1. The institution in which the work is done is of high standing; and
    2. Sufficient evidence is furnished that the particular work is satisfactorily performed.
    3. No work done in another institution is accepted in lieu of the minimum of one year of residence required for any degree.
  2. Non-resident work may be substituted for resident work for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy under the following conditions:
    1. The non-resident student is expected to matriculate at the University and spend the first year of the time required for the degree in residence, unless he satisfies the Head of the Department concerned that he can do the introductory work in a satisfactory manner though not in attendance.
    2. The non-resident work is performed under the general direction of the Head of the Department concerned.
    3. The final examination in all work leading to a degree is passed at the University.
  3. No non-resident work is accepted in lieu of the minimum residence of one year required for the Master’s degree.

[…]

[p. 32]

Section 17. — At the close of each course of study an examination is held by the instructor, the particular time being officially announced in the Weekly Calendar.

  1. Quarterly examinations are given in graduate courses at the discretion of the instructor. *

*(l) This does not entitle individual graduate students to exemption from the examination in courses in which the quarterly examination is held. (2) In case no examination is held in a graduate course it is understood that some paper, problem, or exercise is substituted for the examination in question.

  1. If quarterly examinations are not given in graduate courses, instruction continues to be given until the last day of the Quarter.

[…]

Section 19. — For regulations governing examinations for higher degrees, see Art. XI, sec. 6, no. 4, and sec. 9.

 

Section 20. — The following terminology is employed in recording the work of students:

 

A = 100 to 91.

B= 90 to 76.

C= 75 to 61.

D= 60 to 51.

E= 50 to 0.

  1. “C” is the passing mark.
  2. “D” requires a second examination…

[p. 33]

[…]

  1. In the Graduate Schools all grades below “C” are equivalent to “not passed.”

[…]

[p. 38]

[…]

ARTICLE XI. GRADUATION, INCLUDING CANDIDACY AND REQUIREMENTS FOR DEGREES.

Section 1. — A diploma or certificate conferring a degree or a title, or testifying to the completion of a course of study, is awarded to each student completing the requirements in a School, College, or Academy as follows:

[…]

  1. The degree of Master of Arts, Philosophy, or Science and of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate Schools.

[…]

Section 3. — A student is admitted to candidacy for a higher degree in any School on the following general conditions:

  1. If his undergraduate course is equivalent to that in the Colleges of the University (see sees. 4-6).
  2. If he has been in residence one Quarter or more in the School.
  3. On recommendation of the Department or Departments in which he wishes to work he is accepted by the Faculty of the School.
  4. Graduates of approved institutions who become candidates for a higher degree are, as a general rule, allowed to depart from the regulations of the University for the Bachelor’s degree to the extent of three Majors, but no deficiency in quantity is allowed (see sees. 5 and 6).
  5. Substitutes for the specified work required for the Bachelor’s degree of this University, to the amount of eight Majors reckoned by College standards, are granted to candidates for a higher degree:
    1. In the case of a student appointed to a Fellowship or Scholarship, when the substitution is recommended by the Department in which the principal work is done.
    2. In other cases, by a majority vote of the University Senate.

[…]

[p.39]

[…]

Section 4. — The following special regulations condition admission to candidacy for the degrees in question :

[…]

  1. In the case of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in any School, the student has a reading knowledge of French and German certified to by the Departments of Romance and Germanic Languages in the University, and the subject for his dissertation is accepted by the Head of his principal Department.
  2. A graduate student holding any Bachelor’s degree and devoting himself to any Department of study is admitted to candidacy for any Master’s degree, provided that, also, he has done the work required for a corresponding Bachelor’s degree in the University.

[…]

Section 6. — Students admitted to candidacy for higher degrees obtain them on the following general conditions :

  1. Resident graduate work as follows : for the Master’s degree, three Quarters ; for the Doctor’s degree, three years, or, in the Graduate Divinity School, four years. (See special provision in sec. 7, nos. 6-8.)
  2. Registration during the Quarter in which the examination for the degree takes place.
  3. The successful completion of a course of study acceptable to the Department in which the work is done. For special curriculum requirements, see sec. 8.
  4. The passing of a final examination, written [p. 40] or oral or both, at the discretion of the examining committee. For special examination requirements see sec. 9.
  5. The preparation and presentation of a satisfactory dissertation, except in the case of the non-specialist Master’s degree (see sec. 8, no. 3). For special dissertation requirements, see sec. 10.
  6. The favorable report of the examining committee, the recommendation of Ruling Bodies concerned, and the conferring of the degree by the Board of Trustees through the President.
  7. Presence in person at the Convocation at which the degree is given.

 

Section 7. — Special regulations governing the term of residence necessary for graduation are as follows :

  1. No degree is given without at least one year (three Quarters) of full resident work.
  2. Students who have taken a degree for two years’ work in schools under the supervision of the University may take the title of Associate after a Quarter of residence at the University.

[…]

  1. Students presenting advanced credit shorten the time required for residence for certain degrees. (See Art. VI, sec. 13 ; Art. VIII, sec. 13, no. I, and sec. 14, no. 7.)
  2. Non-resident work accepted in lieu of work in residence shortens the time required for residence. (See Art. VIII, sec. 13, no. 2, sec. 14, no. 4.) Non-resident work cannot be accepted as affording any time credit in the course for the medical degree.
  3. In exceptional cases the degree of Doctor of Philosophy may be granted after one year of residence at the University of Chicago, work having been done in other institutions.

 

Section 8. — Special regulations governing the curriculum are as follows :

  1. Each Department of instruction decides what courses of instruction are accepted in its Department for higher degrees.
  2. Work done in other universities may be substituted for work in the University according to the regulations found in Art. VI, sec. 13; Art. VIII, sec. 13, no. 1, sec. 14, no. 7.
  3. If the degree of Master in the Graduate Schools be taken as a specialist degree, at least seven Majors of resident graduate work, all falling in one Department, and a dissertation, are required. If it be taken as a non-specialist degree, there are required nine Majors of resident graduate work distributed among three Departments (not more than six Majors falling in any one group of Departments), without a dissertation; but the respective Departments must approve in writing, in advance, at the time of the student’s admission to candidacy, the specific courses to be offered for the degree, and any Department is at liberty to require other courses to be taken as preliminary to those thus approved. In any case Seminar courses are counted toward the Master’s degree only by special consent of the Department concerned.

[…]

[p. 41]

[…]

  1. For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate Schools the requirements are :
    1. One principal and either one or two secondary subjects are chosen, each acceptable to the head of the Department concerned.
    2. Not more than two-thirds of the work may be done in one Department, and work counting toward the degree in not more than three Departments, except when such work is accepted as equivalent to work done in the Department itself.
    3. The minimum requirement in a secondary subject taken by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy is one year (three Quarters) of full work (that is to say, work corresponding, in the judgment of the Department, to nine Majors).
    4. The candidate who has already done in another university the whole or a part of the work which would be accepted by the proposed secondary Department in this University as sufficient, takes, nevertheless, an amount of work in that Department corresponding to at least three Majors; and this work is of a strictly advanced character.
    5. If a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy takes two secondary subjects, the minimum requirement is two-thirds of a full year’s work in one of them (that is to say, work corresponding, in the judgment of the Department concerned, to six Majors), and one-third of a full year’s work in the other (that is to say, work corresponding, in the judgment of the Department concerned, to three Majors); and of these amounts at least three Majors in each subject are of a strictly advanced character.
    6. A good command of literary expression and such knowledge of subjects considered fundamental as may be prescribed by the several Departments is required.

[…]

Section 9. — Special regulations governing the examination preliminary to obtaining degrees are as follows :

  1. The public oral examination for the degree of Master or of Doctor of Philosophy is conducted by an examining committee (see no. 2), and does not exceed two hours in length in the case of the Master’s degree and three hours in the case of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Notice of the same is published in the Weekly Calendar at least one week in advance.
  2. The Examining Committee consists of all the instructors of the Departments concerned, ex officio, and one or more members appointed by the President. The President also names the chairman of the Committee. In all examinations for the Doctor’s degree in Greek and Latin the members of all Departments represented in the Classical Group are understood to be included in this regulation as “Departments concerned.”
  3. The oral examination for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy is taken within four months after the approval of the dissertation, unless the time be extended by the Senate upon the recommendation of the Heads of the Departments concerned. (See no. 6 below.)

[p. 42]

  1. The candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy is admitted to final examination only when the thesis is complete and ready for the printer (see also sec. 10). By “complete ” is meant that every chapter or considerable subdivision of the document is worked out with such fulness that it is practicable to make all the necessary corrections and additions on the proof.
  2. No examination for a higher degree is held within the last week before the Convocation at which the degree is to be conferred.
  3. The candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy may present himself for examination in his secondary subject as soon as he has fulfilled the requirements of the Department concerned. The examination is conducted by a committee consisting of the members of the Department, a representative of the principal Department, and a representative of another Department, and the grade attained is reported to the Recorder.
  4. In case a candidate has already taken the examination in his secondary Department, the examination in his principal subject is conducted by an Examining Committee consisting of the members of the Department concerned, an appointed representative of the secondary Department, or each of them, by any other members of the said Department that may choose to attend, and by a member of some other Department appointed by the President.
  5. The candidate for any final examination for the higher degree prepares a typewritten or printed brief of his work, including an analysis of the dissertation, and files with the Recorder copies of the same, sufficient in number for the Examining Committee, one week before the time set for the examination. In case of an examination in the secondary Department, the brief includes the work in this Department. The brief for the final examination includes the work of both Departments.

 

Section 10. — Special regulations governing the dissertation in the case of the higher degrees are as follows:

  1. Students who have reached their third year of graduate study and are, in the judgment of the instructors concerned, prepared to enter upon the direct work of the thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy may, within the judgment of the Department in which the thesis is to be presented, be free for that work. In this case the usual fees are paid.
  2. The subject of the dissertation in the case of the Doctor’s degree in the Graduate Schools is submitted for approval to the Head of the Department at least twelve months before the date of the final examination.
  3. The dissertation itself is submitted in written form four months before the date of the final examination (unless postponement is authorized by the Senate upon recommendation of the Head of the Department concerned).
  4. Dissertation work may be done in collaboration with the instructor on the following conditions:
    1. The student should be given the choice of selecting a second subject on which he is allowed to publish alone.
    2. The student submits a written dissertation on such part of the joint work as was allotted to him for original investigation, on the basis of which he desires to receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
    3. This dissertation should be printed separately.
    4. Should the joint paper appear before the dissertation is printed, or should it be unavoidably delayed, the time allowed for the printing of the dissertation may be suitably extended at the request of the instructor.
  5. Dissertations for the degree of Master and of Doctor of Philosophy, after receiving the approval of the Departments concerned, are [p. 43] deposited in the Library at least three weeks before the date of the Convocation at which the degrees are to be conferred, and notices of the dissertations thus deposited are given to the Faculties concerned.
  6. In the title-page required for all dissertations the official name of the University is placed at the head of the title-page, and the name of the Department to which the dissertation is offered is designated in marks of parenthesis at the end of the statement that the dissertation is offered in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The proper form is as follows :

__________________

The University of Chicago
FOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
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(Title) ______________________________________

___________________________________________

A DISSERTATION

SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY
OF THE

(GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND LITERATURE)
(OGDEN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE)
(GRADUATE DIVINITY SCHOOL)

IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

(Department of___________________)

_____

BY

(Name of Author) ______________________________________

_____

_____

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19—

__________________

 

  1. A brief of the dissertation accompanies the brief of work required. (See sec. 9, no. 8.)
  2. A dissertation is required for the Master’s degree in the Graduate Schools when it is taken as a specialist degree. (See sec. 8, no. 3.) In this case the subject is submitted for approval to the Head of the Department in which the principal work is done, at least six months before graduation, and the completed dissertation at least two months before graduation. The title page of the Master’s dissertation must, in form, agree with that of the Doctor’s dissertation. The paper on which the dissertation is written is of uniform size (8½ × 11 inches), and of a quality approved by the Librarian of the University, from whom samples are obtained. Five printed or typewritten copies are deposited in the University Library. A copy for preservation in the Library is bound in dark cloth and shows the title of the thesis, either stamped on the cover in gilt lettering or written out on a slip and pasted on the outside covering.

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  1. For the relation of the dissertation to admission to the examination and to recommendation for the degree, see sees. 9, no. 4, and 11, nos. 3 and 4.
  2. After acceptance, one hundred printed copies of the dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy are deposited in the Library within six months after the date of the final examinations. These copies become the property of the University. (See Art. II, sec. 14, no. 15, and Art. XV, sec. 9, no. 2.) Two copies of each thesis are offered bound in boards in a style approved by the Librarian of the University, from whom samples may be secured upon application.

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Section 12. — Special regulations governing recommendation for higher degrees are as follows:

  1. The Departments concerned recommend to the proper Faculties, the Faculties to the University Senate, and the Senate to the Board of Trustees.
  2. In no case is a candidate recommended for a higher degree without the consent of all the Departments concerned.
  3. The degree of Master (specialist, and in the Divinity School) is recommended only after the proper number of copies of the dissertation have been deposited with the Librarian. (See sec. 10, no. 8.)
  4. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy is recommended only on a written certificate of the principal Department concerned that the thesis is ready for the printer, and on the written evidence of some responsible journal or publisher that the required number of printed copies will be furnished the University within a reasonable time.

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Section 14. — Four grades of excellence are distinguished for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, namely : (1) rite; (2) cum laude; (3) magna cum laude; (4) summa cum laude. The grading is based both upon the examination and the dissertation.

 

Categories
Chicago Courses

Chicago Economics. Courses of Instruction. 1900-01.

General
Junior College Courses
Senior College and Graduate Courses
Seminars

Source: University of Chicago. Annual Register: July, 1899-July, 1900 with Announcements for 1900-1901. 1900.

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The Department of Political Economy
[University of Chicago]

COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.
Summer Quarter, 1900—Spring Quarter, 1901.
M=Minor course=a single course for six weeks. Mj=Major course=a single course for twelve weeks.

 

GENERAL.

The courses may be roughly classified into

Group I, Introductory: Courses 1,2,3,4.
Group II, Theoretical: Courses 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.
Group III, Practical: Courses 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 47, 39, 40, 41.
Group IV, Seminars: Courses 50, 51, 42, 53, 54, 55.

Students are advised to begin the study of economics not later than the first year of their entrance into the Senior Colleges; and students of high standing, showing special aptitude for economic study, may properly take Course 1 in the last year of the Junior Colleges.

For admission to the courses of Groups II and III, a prerequisite is the satisfactory completion of Courses 1 and 2 or an equivalent. Those desiring only a general acquaintance with the subject are expected to take Course 2 during the second quarter. Course 1 is not open to students who do not intend to continue the work of 2.

After passing satisfactorily in Courses 1 and 2 the student will find a division of the courses into three general groups : Group II will be concerned chiefly with a study of economic principles, their historical development, and the various systems of economic thought; Group III, while making use of principles and economic reasoning, will be devoted mainly to the collection of facts, the weighing of evidence, and an examination of questions bearing on the immediate welfare of our people. For a proper grasp of the subject Courses 10, 11, and 13 are indispensable; and in the second year of his study of economics the student should supplement a course in Group II by a course in Group III. Group IV provides for the oversight of special investigations, particularly those undertaken by candidates for the higher degrees.

Ability to treat economic questions properly can be acquired only if the student, being possessed of some natural aptitude for the study, devotes sufficient time to it to enable him to assimilate the principles into his thinking, and to obtain certain habits of mind which are demanded for proficiency in this, as in any other important branch of study.

 

JUNIOR COLLEGE COURSES

 

  1. and 2. Principles of Political Economy.—Exposition of the laws of Political Economy in its present state.

5 hrs. a week. MJ. Summer Quarter; 8:30.
Dr. Hatfield.

2 Mjs. Autumn and Winter Quarters; 8:30 and 9:30
Professor Laughlin and
Asssistant Professor Hill.
Repeated in Spring Quarter; 12:00.
Assistant Professor Hill

Course 1 in the Autumn Quarter is open only to students who express to their deans a bona fide intention to elect 2 in the Winter Quarter.

Students should begin the study of Political Economy by taking Courses 1 and 2. Those desirous of laying the foundation for work in the advanced courses will take these two courses; those who, while giving their attention mainly to other departments, seek simply that general knowledge of economics demanded by a liberal education, and cannot devote more time to the study, will also take Courses 1 and 2. Courses 1 and 2 together are designed to give the students an acquaintance with the working principles of Political Economy.

The general drill in the principles cannot be completed in one quarter; and the department does not wish students to elect Course 1 who do not intend to continue the work in Course 2. Descriptive and practical subjects are introduced as the principles are discussed, and the field is only half-covered in Course 1. Those who do not take both 1 and 2 are not prepared to take any advanced courses.

Courses 1 and 2 form the two Majors required of all Junior College students in the College of Commerce and Administration.

 

  1. Economic and Social History.—Leading Events in the Economic History of Europe and America since the middle of the eighteenth century. Lectures and Reading.

Mi. Winter Quarter; 2:00
Professor Miller.

[p. 166] This course endeavors to present a comprehensive survey of the social, industrial, commercial and economic development of the Western world since the middle of the eighteenth century. After a preliminary study of the industrial revolution and the rise of the factory system, attention will be called to the economic and social effects of the American and French revolutions; the development of American commerce; to the introduction of steam transportation; to the adoption of free trade by England; to the new gold discoveries and their widespread effects; to the Civil War in the United States; to the French indemnity; to the crisis of 1873; and to the economic disturbances of the past twenty years. The course is conducted mainly by lectures, but a course of collateral reading will be prescribed upon which students will be expected to report from time to time.

No previous economic study is required of students entering this course, but it will be taken to best advantage by those who already have some knowledge of economic principles.

 

  1. Descriptive Economics.—Lectures and Reports.

Mj. Summer Quarter; 12:00
Mj. Autumn Quarter; 12:00
Dr. Hatfield.

This is an elementary course requiring no previous study of Political Economy and describes the industrial structure of modern society. As it thus treats of the subject-matter with which economic theory deals, it may properly precede or supplement the course in Principles of Political Economy.

The purpose of the course is to familiarize the student with the actual forms in which economic activity of today manifests itself. The treatment will be concrete and practical rather than theoretical and will include the following subjects: Raw materials and their sources; the organization and methods of leading industries showing the effects of modern inventions; the development of markets; produce exchanges; trade routes; the distribution of commerce, etc.

In connection with this course the class will visit a number of the large industrial establishments situated in Chicago.

 

SENIOR COLLEGE AND GRADUATE COURSES.

  1. History of Political Economy.—History of the Development of Economic Theories, embracing those of the Mercantilists and the Physiocrats, followed by a critical study of Adam Smith and his English and Continental Successors.—Lectures, Reading, and Reports.

Mj. Autumn Quarter, 11:00.
Assistant Professor Veblen.

This course treats of the theoretic development of Political Economy as a systematic body of doctrine; of the formation of economic conceptions and principles, policies, and systems. The subject will be treated so as to show the continuity and systematic character of Political Economy as the intelligent and scientific explanation of economic facts. Both the internal and the external aspects of the history of Political Economy will be studied, that is, the history of topics and doctrines and that of schools and leading writers. At the same time, any body of economic doctrine will always be explained and tested as the interpretation of a certain sphere of economic fact; and the student will thus be constantly drilled in economic analysis and in the sifting of economic proof, with the aim of making his hold on economic facts and problems at once exact and comprehensive. The questions that arise as to the interpretation of great writers and their systems will also form matter of discussion and study. Attention will be given, first, to what is significant for Political Economy in the early efforts of the moderns to solve economic problems. The commercial theories of the Mercantile System, the Physiocratic School, Adam Smith and his immediate predecessors, the English writers from Adam Smith to J. S. Mill, and the European and American writers of the nineteenth century will be studied. From the multiplicity of writers, selections will be made of those who have had great influence, or who have made marked contributions to Political Economy.

The student will be expected to read prescribed portions of the great authors bearing on cardinal principles, and to trace the relationship of the teaching of one author to that of another and of all authors in a scientific whole. It is hoped that in this way he will learn to see the consistency and relations of economic theories and to use the science as a whole, and not as a mere mass of arbitrary formula: or dicta. A special feature of the work will be a thorough study of Adam Smith and of Ricardo.

 

  1. Scope and Method of Political Economy.—Origin and Development of the Historical School.—Lectures and Reports.

Mj. Winter Quarter; 11:00
Assistant Professor Veblen.

This course attempts to define the province, postulates, and character of Political Economy; to determine [p. 167] its method and to examine the nature of economic truth. The methods of proof and the processes of reasoning involved in the analysis of economic phenomena and the investigation of economic problems, and the position of Political Economy in the circle of the Moral Sciences—its relation to Ethics, Political Science. and Sociology—will be studied. In view of the controversies which have arisen on these fundamental topics, a critical estimate will be made of the views of leading writers on Methodology, such as Mill, Cairnes, Schmoller, Wagner, Menger, Sax, Keynes, and others. Seeing that the controversy about method arose in connection with the contentions of members of the Historical School of Political Economy in Germany, the opinions and writings of prominent representatives of that school will be studied.

Students will be required to prepare critical studies on books or subjects selected by the instructor.

 

  1. Economic Theory.—Critical Discussion of Theories of Value. Lectures and Reports.

Mj. Summer Quarter; 9:30.
Mj. Autumn Quarter; 2:00.
Professor Miller.

An opportunity will be given to students who, having completed Courses 1 and 2, should have a further study of theory, both as a means of general training and as a prerequisite for advanced courses in constructive work in the field of theory. Those who are especially interested in questions of value. socialism and the like, should take advantage of this course to strengthen their powers of reasoning on economic theory. Especial attention will be given to the discussion of value and such other controverted parts of economic theory as are not taken up in Course 13.

 

  1. Unsettled Problems of Economic Theory.—Questions of Exchange and Distribution. Critical examination of selections from leading writers.

Mj. Spring Quarter; 12:00.
Professor Laughlin.

Little use will be made of text-books or lectures in this course, it being intended to take up certain topics in economic theory and to follow out their treatment by various writers. The more abstruse questions of exchange and distribution will be considered. No student, therefore, can undertake the work of this course with profit who has not already become familiar with the fundamental principles. The course is open only to those who have passed satisfactorily in Courses 1 and 2, or who can clearly show that they have had an equivalent training.

The subjects to be considered in 1900-1901 will be as follows: The wages-fund and other theories of wages, the interest problem, managers’ profits and allied topics. The discussion will be based upon selected passages of important writers. The study of wages, for example, will include reading from Adam Smith, Ricardo, J. S. Mill, Longe, Thornton, Cairnes, F. A. Walker, Marshall, George, Böhm-Bawerk and others. Students will also be expected to discuss recent important contributions to these subjects in current books or journals; and they will be practiced in the exposition of special points before their fellow students.

 

  1. Social Economics. Attempts to Improve the Economic Condition of Workingmen.—Lectures and Reading, Practical Investigations and Reports.

Mj. Autumn Quarter; 8:30.
Dr. Hatfield.

The main purposes of the course are: (1) to discover the economic value of the various efforts that have been made and are being made to improve the condition of the workingmen, to learn why some succeed and others fail; and (2) to familiarize the students with the methods of such of these undertakings as have demonstrated their right to live, so that. if called upon, the students may themselves be able to take the lead in organizing similar undertakings.

In addition to the three great classes of cooperative effort in which workingmen take part, typified respectively by the trade union, the coöperative store and the profit-sharing business, and including also such enterprises as associations of producers. building and loan associations, labor exchanges, fraternal insurance, etc., the course will embrace the consideration of the various miscellaneous efforts for the improvement of the laboring classes, such as the activities of the social settlement, the penny provident bank, manual training and industrial education.

As Chicago and its vicinity afford abundant material for the kinds of study called for by this course, each student will be expected to investigate and report on some particular undertaking.

 

  1. Practical Economics. Relation of the State to Industrial Organization and Action—Detailed investigation of industrial combinations or [p. 168] trusts as a leading type in the existing industrial organization. Lectures, Reading and Reports.

Mj. Summer Quarter; 11:00.
Professor Miller.

The province of government in regard to industrial operations will be given especial attention; and there will be a treatment of such topics as immigration, factory legislation, insurance of the laboring classes by the state, and the relation of government to monopolies and corporations.

 

  1. Socialism.—History of Socialistic Theories. Recent Socialistic Developments. Critical Review of Theoretical Writers, Programmes and Criticisms.—Lectures, Reading, and Reports.

Mj. Winter Quarter; 4:00
Assistant Professor Veblen.

The course is in part historical and descriptive, in part theoretical and critical. It comprises a review of the development of socialistic theory from the early years of the nineteenth century, and of modern socialistic movements down to the present. The theoretical writings of Marx, Rodbertus, and Lassalle will be taken up in detail; as also the criticisms offered by such writers as Schaeffle, Adler, and Spencer. Some attention will also be given to living popular writers, such as Gronlund, Bellamy, Bebel, Kautsky, and others. Practical work will be done with the platforms and programmes of socialistic organizations.

Attention will then be given to the alleged socialistic trend of development, to the economic factors in operation, and to the ethical aspect of the economic questions involved.

Students will be expected to make written reports and critical studies from time to time, in addition to selected reading. Those who have not carefully examined questions of value and distribution will be at a disadvantage in this course.

 

  1. Economic Factors in Civilization. — A general study of some phases of present Industrial Conditions.—Lectures and Reports.

Mj. Spring Quarter; 11:00.
Assistant Professor Veblen.

The course is intended to present a structural account of the modern economic system by the study of its roots in the past. To this end it undertakes a survey of the cultural development as affected by economic motives and exigencies. The work will be largely one of research, in which the instructor will constantly direct the reading of the student.

Salient points in the history of mankind will be examined with the purpose of detecting the operation of economic causes and showing how these causes have acted to shape the growth of civilization and produce the existing industrial situation. With this in view, such phenomena as the Teutonic invasion of Europe, the Feudal system, the rise of commerce, the organization of trade and industry, the history of the condition of laborers, processes of production, and changes in consumption, will be treated.

 

  1. Finance.—Public Expenditures. Theories and Methods of Taxation. Public Debts. Financial Administration.

Mj. Autumn Quarter; 3:00.
Professor Miller.

In this course it is intended to make a comprehensive survey of the whole field of public finance. The course is primarily planned to meet the wants of those students who do not propose to extend their studies in finance beyond one course. It is, at the same time, intended to form an introduction to the seminary work in finance.

The treatment is both theoretical and practical, and the method of presentation historical as well as systematic. A brief review will be made of the growth and present state of the public expenditures of leading modern nations and the methods used for defraying them. Taxation, holding the place of first importance among the resources of the modern state, will be the principal subject of the course. A critical estimate of the theories of leading writers will be made with a view to discovering a tenable basis of taxation. Principles are discussed, the various kinds of taxes examined, and their complementary functions in a system of taxes determined; and the practical success which has attended the methods employed in different countries will be investigated. This part of the course will be, therefore, very largely a comparative study of the tax systems of the principal modern states. In this connection special attention will be given to the problems of state and local taxation in America. All questions will be discussed from the twofold standpoint of justice and expediency.

The remaining parts of the course treat of the organization and methods of financial administration, the formal control of public expenditures by means of the budget, the growth of public debts and their economic and social effects. The various problems involved in the management of public debts, such as methods of borrowing, conversion and reduction will [p. 169] be considered; and the methods practiced in our own and other countries will be described.

 

  1. 26. Oral Debates. — Selected Economic Topics. Briefs. Debates-Criticism.

3 hrs. a week; Mon., 3:00.
2Ms. Autumn and Winter Quarters.
Assistant Professors Hill
and Lovett.

The object of the course is to afford practice in the oral presentation of arguments. The work consists of the preparation of briefs, the delivery of fifteen-minute speeches as principal disputant, and the delivery of five-minute speeches. Each student will appear as principal three times in the quarter. Course 26 is designed to be taken in connection with English 9, but may be elected separately by permission of the instructors. 

 

  1. 28. Argumentation.—To be taken in connection with English 9.

3 hrs. a week; Wed.,3:00.
2Ms. Autumn and Winter Quarters.
Assistant Professor Lovett.

 

  1. Railway Transportation. —History and Development of Railways. Theories of Rates. Combination. Investments. Speculative Management. State Ownership or Control. —Lectures, Reports, Discussions. and Reading.

Mj. Autumn Quarter; 9:30.
Assistant Professor Hill.

The economic, financial and social influences arising from the growth of modern railway transportation, especially as concerns the United States, will be discussed. An account of the means of transportation developed in Europe and America during the early part of this century; the experiments of the states in constructing and operating canals and railways; national, state and municipal aid to private companies; the rapid and irregular extension of the United States railway system in recent years, with some attention to railway building in other countries, will form the historical part of the work. A discussion of various theories of rates; competition, combination, discrimination, investments, speculation, abuse of fiduciary powers; state legislation and commissions, and the Inter-State Commerce Act, with decisions under it; and the various relations of the state, the public, the investors, the managers and the employés, will form the most important part of the Work. This course gives a general view of the subject. Students who wish to continue the work by investigating special problems will have an opportunity to do so under Courses 31, 32, 51 and 52.

 

  1. Comparative Railway Legislation. — Lectures, Reading, and Reports.

Mj. Winter Quarter; 8:30.
Assistant Professor Hill.

It is the aim of this course to give the student, who has already passed satisfactorily in Course 30, a study of the development and present nature of the railway systems of Great Britain. France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Italy, Brazil, and Australia. From this comparative examination it will be learned what light the experience of other countries will throw upon our own railway problems.

Open only to those students who have taken Course 30.

 

  1. Technique of Trade and Commerce.—Weights and measures; customs regulations; exchange and price quotations; commercial documents; foreign and domestic exchange; arbitrage; accounts; investment securities ; insurance, etc.

Mj. Spring Quarter.
Dr. Hatfield.

An attempt to familiarize the student with the actual forms and methods used in modern exchange. Especial attention will be given to the interpretation of railway and other corporation accounts, and to the use and construction of exchange and conversion tables, cambists, bond values, annuity tables, etc.

 

 

  1. Industrial Development of the United States. Reading, Reports, and Lectures.

Mj. Winter Quarter.
Assistant Professor Hill.

A study is made of the distribution of population among the important industries at different periods of our development, and a comparison is made of the wages and profits secured by the different groups. The effects of changing from extractive industries to manufactures are traced, and an attempt is made to test by our experience the view that manufactures are introduced in a new country only as extractive industries become less profitable. The influence of legislation in shaping the industrial development of the nation is sought. The forces which determine the location and prosperity of industries are studied, with [p. 170] special attention to transportation facilities, and the effect upon our exports and imports of the changes in our industries will be dwelt upon.

 

 

  1. Problems of American Agriculture.—Movements of Prices. Foreign Competition. Changing Conditions of Agriculture. Land Tenure—Lectures, Reading, and Reports.

Mj. Spring Quarter; 4:00.
Assistant Professor Veblen.

Special attention will be given to the extension and changes of the cultivated area of the United States; the methods of farming; the influence of railways and population, and of cheapened transportation ; the fall in values of Eastern farm-lands; movements of prices of agricultural products; European markets; competition of other countries; intensive farming; diminishing returns; farm mortgages; and the comparison of American with European systems of culture. Reports will be prepared by students on topics assigned.

 

 

  1. Financial History of the United States.—Rapid Survey of the Financial Experiences of the Colonies and the Confederation. Detailed Study of the Course of American Legislation on Currency, Debts. and Banking since 1789.—Lectures and Reports.

Mj. Winter Quarter; 3:00.
Professor Miller.

Without excluding the history of taxation, this course concerns itself chiefly with the history of our national legislation on currency, loans and banking. The study will be based upon a careful examination at first hand of the leading provisions of the Acts of Congress and other materials important in our financial history. These will be reviewed from the political as well as from the financial standpoints, it being one of the objects of the course to develop the relation between finance and politics in our history. Special attention will be given to Hamilton’s system of finance and the changes introduced by Gallatin, to the financial policy of the War of 1812, to the establishment of the Second United States Bank and the struggles over its re-charter, to the crisis of 1837-1839 and the establishment of the independent Treasury, to the financial problems and management of the Civil War; to the establishment of the national banking system, the refunding and reduction of the debt and the resumption of specie payments.

 

 

  1. Money and Practical Economics. — Training in the Theoretical and Historical Investigation of Important Questions of the Day.—Lectures and Theses.

Mj. Autumn Quarter; 12:00.
Professor Laughlin.

Preliminary training for investigation is combined in this course with the acquisition of desirable statistical information on practical questions of the day. The student is instructed in the bibliography of the subject, taught how to collect his data, and expected to weigh carefully the evidence on both sides of a mooted question. The short theses form a connected series and give practice in written exposition as well as in the graphic representation of statistics. Mere compilation is objected to, and the student is urged to reach his conclusions independently and solely on the facts before him. Fresh and independent judgments are encouraged. The work of writing theses is so adjusted that it corresponds to the work of other courses counting for the same number of hours. The instructor criticises the theses before the class, and members of the class are called upon to lecture on the subjects of their theses and to answer questions from their fellow-students.

The subjects taken up will be chosen from the following: money, prices, bimetallism, note-issues, shipping, and commercial crises.

 

 

  1. Banking.—Comparison of Modern Systems. Study of Principles—Lectures, Reports, and Discussion.

Mj. Spring Quarter; 9:30.
Assistant Professor Hill.

A comparison of the banking systems of the United States, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and other countries will be made, with special attention to the manner in which each meets the problems of currency (coin, note, and deposit), reserves, discount, and exchange. The relations of the banks to the public, their influence on speculation, their management in financial crises, special dangers, and most efficient safe-guards will be discussed. Relative advantages and different fields of action for national banks, state banks, deposit and trust companies, and savings banks will be noted. A few lectures will be given on the history of banking.

Each student will present a thesis upon some subject connected with the course.

 

 

  1. Statistics

M. Winter Quarter.
Mr. Worthington C. Ford.

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the use of statistics as an instrument of investi-[p. 171] gation and exposition in social, political, and economic science; to qualify them to judge of the value of results obtained by statistical methods ; and to enable them to use such methods themselves intelligently and with some degree of skill.

Together with the necessity for uniformity of method in systematic statistics and comparability of data, graphical methods and cartography, attention will be drawn to the technique of statistics. Demonstrations with actual statistical material being the most satisfactory method of statistical instruction, particular stress will be laid on this feature of the course. The course, therefore, will be practical and not historical or descriptive.

 

  1. Commercial Statistics.

M. Winter Quarter.
Mr. Worthington C. Ford.

A statistical treatment of modern commercial questions. Contributions of a more advanced character than in Course 40 will be made to recent problems arising from the commercial development of the United States.

 

THE SEMINARS.

 

Under this head are placed the arrangements for Fellows, graduates, and suitably prepared persons, who wish to carry on special researches under the guidance of the instructors. Candidates for the higher degrees will find in the seminar 8. means of regularly obtaining criticism and suggestion. It is hoped that each member of the seminar will steadily produce from time to time finished work suitable for publication. Emphasis will be placed on accurate and detailed work upon obscure or untouched points.

Students may carry on an independent study upon some special subject, making regular reports to the instructor; or several students may be grouped for the study of a series of connected subjects. But, in general, the work of the student engaged in investigations will receive direct personal supervision from the instructor, appointments being made with individual students.

 

 

  1. Seminar in Finance.

Mj. Winter Quarter.
Professor Miller.

The Seminar is organized for such students as wish to undertake work of the investigative order in finance. Each student will be expected to present to the seminar a carefully prepared thesis embodying the results of independent research on some topic relating to the particular subject chosen by the members of the seminar‘ for joint investigation. Stated meetings will be held, at which questions will be proposed for discussion and lectures given by the instructor on the common work of the seminar. Separate meetings will also be arranged for with the individual members of the seminar, and the work of each student personally supervised.

Two seminars will be organized, each extending over two quarters, students being grouped according to the subject selected. For the year 1900-1901 the two following subjects are proposed :

  1. Special Problems in Taxation: Comparative study of systems of local taxation.
  2. Financial Administration: Comparative study of the budgetary systems of different countries.

 

  1. and 52. Seminar in Railways.

2Mjs. Winter and Spring Quarters.
Assistant Professor Hill.

 

  1. 54. and 55. Economic Seminar

3Mjs. Autumn, Winter, and Spring Quarters.
Professor Laughlin.

Provision is here made for special investigation, either by groups of students or by individuals, on selected topics. Constructive work on theory, or studies on practical questions, will be guided by the instructor. Candidates for the higher degrees will receive personal attention.

Categories
Chicago Harvard

Harvard Graduate Alumnus, Hugo Richard Meyer in 1912

 

HUGO RICHARD MEYER

Attended Harvard 1884-85, 1888-92, A.B. 1892 (’93); Graduate School 1892-97, A.M. 1894.

Was instructor in economics at Harvard from 1896 to 1903; lecturer on economics, 1903-04.

Meyer does not reply to the Secretary’s letters. The following information is kindly supplied by a member of the class: “After leaving Harvard, Meyer spent six months at the University of Chicago. He then went to Denver, and is now (August, 1907) going to Australia to be gone from four to six years. He expects to be in Melbourne for a year and a half and an equal length of time in Sydney. He will return to the States via Europe. He will spend his time in Australia in research work, looking up such subjects as state ownership of railways, wage scales, and kindred subjects.”

Has published ” The British State Telegraphs,” sub-title: “A Story of the Problem of a Large Body of Civil Servants in a Democracy,” Macmillan.

Source: Secretary’s Report Harvard Class of 1892, No. V. Boston, Fort Hill Press, 1912, p. 113.

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H. R. Meyer, ’92, sometime instructor in Economics at Harvard, now assistant professor at the University of Chicago, has published an important book on “Government Regulation of Railroad Rates.”

Source: The Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, vol. 14, (December 1905), p. 337.

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MEYER, Hugo Richard, American author and economist: b. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1 April 1866. He was graduated at Harvard in 1892, and attended the Harvard Graduate School in 1892-96. He was instructor in political economy at Harvard in 1897-1903, and was assistant professor in that subject at the University of Chicago in 1904-05. Since 1907 he has been engaged at Melbourne in writing a history of State Ownership in Victoria, Australia. Author of ‘Government Regulation of Railroad Rates’ (1905); ‘Municipal Ownership in Great Britain’ (1906); ‘The British State Telegraphs’ (1907); ‘Public Ownership and the Telephone in Great Britain’ (1907).

Source:  The Encyclopedia Americana (1920).

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APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION–NATIVE CITIZEN

I, Hugo R. Meyer, hereby apply to the Consulate of the United States at Melbourne for registration as an American citizen.

I was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 1, 1866.

My father, Henry Meyer, was born in Schotmar Germany and [is] deceased. He emigrated to the United States on or about 1851; resided 23 years, uninterruptedly, in the United States, from 1882 to 1905, at Denver, Colo., and was naturalized as a citizen of the United States before the District Court of Hamilton County at Cincinnati, Ohio on March 22, 1867 as shown by the Certificat of Naturalization presented herewith.

I last left the United States on July 1907, arriving at Melbourne, Australia on Aug. 1907, where I am now residing for the purpose of Historical work, on behalf of myself.

I have resided outside the United States at the following places for the following periods. Germany, from 1878 to 1882. Australia from 1907 to date.

My legal domicile is in Denver, Colorado, my permanent residence being at [blank]; my temporary local address is Melbourne.

I desire to remain a citizen of the United States and intend to return thereto permanently to reside and perform the duties of citizenship within— years, or when my researches are completed.

I do pay the American Income Tax at Baltimore, Maryland.

I last applied for registration at the Consulate of the United States at Melbourne on Nov. 21 1916.

…

I am married to Udona Beard, who was born in Illinois (Peoria) on Sept 3, 1877, and is now residing at Melbourne [no children]

[Signed and sworn]

19th day of December, 1907-

The applicant’s physical description:

Age, 61, height, 5 feet 9 1/2 inches; blue eyes, gray hair, ruddy complexion.

[Re-registration on Jan. 16, 1922.]

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REPORT OF THE DEATH OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN

Consular Service, U.S.A.
Melbourne, Australia, July 2, 1923.

Name: Hugo Richard Meyer

Native or naturalized: Native

Date of death: June 15, 1923

Place of death: 146 Orrong Road, Toorak. Victoria, Australia

Cause of death: Angina Pectoris

Disposition of remains: Interred in Brighton Cemetery, Brighton, Victoria

Disposition of Effects: Bequeathed by will to his wife, Udona Beard Meyer.