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Chicago. Reading Assignments for Development of Monetary and Financial Institutions. Hamilton, 1952

 

The 1960 reading assignments for Earl J. Hamilton’s course on the historical development of monetary and financial institutions at the University of Chicago were transcribed and posted earlier. It turns out that a copy of the 1952 reading assignments for the course can be found filed in a folder in the Milton Friedman Papers at the Hoover Institution. Since there was no name on the 1952 reading list, an archivist is likely to have erroneously assumed that the course had been taught by Friedman and so filed it with other materials from those courses taught by Milton Friedman. A casual comparison of the two sets of reading assignments is enough to verify that bibliographic formatting (e.g., Library of Congress call numbers are included for all items) and the overwhelming majority of items are common to the two lists (with some shuffling in the order of the readings). 

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Course Description (1951)

[Economics] 334. The Development of Monetary and Financial Institutions. The evolution of monetary and banking systems in leading nations, the rise of organized dealings in foreign exchange, the emergence of great money markets, the origin and growth of national debt and the economic consequences of inflation and deflation. Theories underlying and reflecting monetary and financial changes. Prereq: Econ 222 or 230. Spr: MTuWF 9:30; Hamilton

Source: University of Chicago. Announcements, Vol. 50, No. 9 (July 20, 1950). The Division of the Social Sciences, Sessions of 1950-1951, p. 30.

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Course Reading Assignments

Economics 334

Assignments to be read before July 16, 1952

  1. Luigi Einaudi, “The Medieval Practice of Managed Currency,” in A.D. Gayer (Editor), The Lessons of Monetary Experience, pp. 259-268. HG 255.L63
  2. W. C. Mitchell, “The Role of Money in Economic Theory,” in The Backward Art of Spending Money, Pp. 149-176. HB 33.M68.
  3. Official Papers by Alfred Marshall, pp. 3-16. HG171.M318.
  4. R. G. Hawtrey, Currency and Credit, Chapter on “The Bank Restriction of 1797.” HG221.H4
  5. J. M. Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform, Chapters I-II, IV. HG221.K4
  6. J. M. Keynes, A Treatise on Money, Vol. II, Chapter 30. HG221.K422
  7. Alfred Marshall, Money, Credit, and Commerce, Book IV, and Appendix A. HG221.M35
  8. Charles F. Dunbar (Revised and edited by O. M. W. Sprague), The Theory and History of Banking, Chapters VIII (“The English Banking System”), IX (“The French Banking System”), X (“The German Banking System”), XI (“The National Banks of the United States”). HG1586.D9
  9. Earl J. Hamilton, American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain, Chapter XIII. H31.H33, v. 43.
  10. *Earl J. Hamilton, “The Foundation of the Bank of Spain,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. LIII (1945), pp. 97-114. HB1.J7.
  11. Earl J. Hamilton, “Prices and Wages at Paris under John Law’s System,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LI, (1936-1937), pp. 42-70. HB1.Q3
  12. Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street. HG3000.L82B3
  13. R. S. Sayers, “The Question of the Standard in the Eighteen-Fifties,” Economic History (a supplement to the Economic Journal), Vol. II, pp. 575-601. HB1.E31
  14. Rufus S. Tucker, “The Myth of 1849,” in C.O Hardy, Is There Enough Gold? Appendix A, pp. 177-199. HG289.H28
  15. Davis R. Dewey, Financial History of the United States, 12th Ed. Pp. 320-328 (“Arguments in Favor of a National Banking System” and “National Banking Act of 1863.”) HJ241.D576
  16. *R. G. Hawtrey, A Century of Bank Rate, Chapters I-IV. HG1623.G7H4

*Read for interpretation and point of view. Do not try to remember facts.

There will be an examination on July 16 on these assignments and the lectures.

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Economics 334

Assignments to be read by not later than August 13, 1952

  1. J. Silberling, “Financial and Monetary Policy of Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XXXVIII (1923-24), pp. 214-33, 397-439. HB1.Q3, v.38
  2. H. Clapham, The Bank of England, Vol. II, Chapters VI-VIII and Epilogue. HG2996.C6
  3. M. Keynes, Essays in Persuasion, Part II, Chaps. 1 and 3; Part III, Chapter 5; Part V, Chapter 2. In the London, 1933 edition these chapters cover pages 77-79, 105-17, 244-70, 358-73. HC57.K471
  4. H. Robertson, Essays in Monetary Theory, Chaps. I and XII. HB171.R544
  5. Fred H. Klopstock, “Monetary Reform in Western Germany,” Journal of Political Economy, August, 1949. HB1.J7, v. 57
  6. Alfred Marshall, Money, Credit, and Commerce, Book II. HG221.M35
  7. Henri Hauser, Les origins historiques des problèmes économiques actuels, Paris, 1930, pp. 70-90.
  8. M. W. Sprague, Crises under the National Banking System, Washington, 1910, pp. 1-107. HB3743.S7
  9. M. Keynes, A Treatise on Money, Vol. II, Chaps. 35 and 37. HG221.K422
  10. M. Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Chapter 23. HB171.K46
  11. W. Kemmerer, The ABC of the Federal Reserve System, Princeton University Press, 1936, Chapters I-V. HG2563.K31
  12. Jacob Viner, Studies in the Theory of International Trade, Chapters III-V. HF1007.V75
  13. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, “Digression concerning Banks of Deposit, particularly concerning that of Amsterdam,” in Book IV, Chapter III, Part I. HB161.S65.
  14. Knut Wicksell, “The Influence of the Rate of Interest on Prices,” Economic Journal, Vol. XVII (1907), pp. 213-220. YW16 (reprint)

There will be an hour examination on August 13th.

Source: Hoover Institution Archives. Papers of Milton Friedman. Box 78, Folder 1 “University of Chicago Econ 334”.

Image Source:  University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-02446, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

 

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Harvard. Readings and Final Exam for Normative Aspects of Economic Policy. Bergson, 1960

 

The reading list and final exam questions from 1959 for Abram Bergson‘s Harvard undergraduate course “Normative Aspects of Economic Policy” have been posted earlier. This post provides material for the same course taught in the spring term of 1960. The reading lists are completely identical, but this time I have gone to the trouble of providing links to most of the course readings.  The exam questions for the 1960 do indeed differ from those of 1959 while covering broadly the same material.

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Enrollment

[Economics] 111a. Normative Aspects of Economic Policy. Professor Bergson. Half course. (Spring)

Total 36: 3 Graduates, 14 Seniors, 7 Juniors, 7 Sophomores, 1 Freshman, 3 Radcliffe, 1 Other.

Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College, 1959-1960, p. 82.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics

Economics 111a
Normative Aspects of Economic Policy
Spring Term: 1959-60

  1. The concept of economic efficiency.

Scitovsky, Welfare and Competition, Chicago, 1951, Chapter I.

  1. Consumers’ goods distribution and labor recruitment: the efficiency of perfect competition: other forms of market organization.

Scitovsky, Chapters II-V, XVI (pp. 338-41), XVIII, XX (pp. 423-427).
A. P. Lerner, Economics of Control, New York, 1946, Chapter 2.

  1. Conditions for efficiency in production.

Scitovsky, Chapters VI-VIII.
Lerner, Chapter 5.

  1. Production efficiency under perfect competition; monopolistic markets.

See the readings under topic 3.
Scitovsky, Chapter X, XI, XII, XV, XVI (pp. 341-363), XVII, XX (pp. 428-439).
Lerner, Chapters 6, 7.

  1. The optimum rate of investment.

Scitovsky, Chapter IX (pp. 216-228).
A. C. Pigou, Economics of Welfare, fourth ed., London, 1948, pp. 23-30.”Wa

  1. Price policy for a public enterprise.

Lerner, Chapter 15.
I. M. D. Little, A Critique of Welfare Economics, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1957, Chapter XI.
O. Eckstein, Water Resource Development, Cambridge, 1958, pp. 47-70, pp. 81-109.

  1. Socialist economic calculation.

O. Lange, On the Economic Theory of Socialism, Minn., 1938, pp. 55-141.
F. Hayek, Socialist Calculation: Economica, May 1940
A. Bergson, Socialist Economics, in H. Ellis, ed., A Survey of Contemporary Economics, Philadelphia, 1948.
M. Dobb, Economic Theory and Socialism, New York, 1955, pp. 41-92.

  1. Economic calculation in underdeveloped countries.

A. Datta, Welfare versus Growth Economics, Indian Economic Journal, October 1956.
T. Scitovsky, Two Concepts of External Economics, Journal of Political Economy, April 1954.
J. Tinbergen, The Design of Development, Balto., Md., 1958.

  1. The concept of social welfare.

The writings of Bergson and Dobb under topic 7.
Pigou, Economics of Welfare, Chapters I, VIII.
Lerner, Chapter 3.
J. R. Hicks, Foundations of Welfare Economics, Economic Journal, December 1939.
Arthur Smithies, Economic Welfare and Policy, in A. Smithies et al., Economics and Public Policy, Washington, 1955.

 

Other References on the Concept of Social Welfare and Optimum Conditions

M. W. Reder, Studies in the Theory of Welfare Economics, New York 1947.

P. A. Samuelson, Foundations of Economic Analysis, Cambridge, 1947, Chapter VIII.

K. Boulding, Welfare Economics, in B. Haley, A Survey of Contemporary Economics, Homewood, Illinois, 1952.

H. Myint, Theories of Welfare Economics, Cambridge, Mass., 1948.

J. A. Hobson, Work and Wealth, London, 1933.

J. M. Clark, Guideposts in Time of Change, New York, 1949.

J. de V. Graaf, Theoretical Welfare Economics, Cambridge, 1957.

F. M. Bator, The Simple Analytics of Welfare Maximization, American Economic Review, March 1957.

A. Bergson, A Reformulation [of Certain Aspects] of Welfare Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1938.

P. A. Samuelson, Evaluation of Real National Income, Oxford Economic Papers, January 1950.

A. C. Pigou, Some Aspects of Welfare Economics, American Economic Review, June 1951.

T. Scitovsky, The State of Welfare Economics, American Economic Review, June 1951.

J. E. Meade, Trade and Welfare, New York, 1955, Part I.

[Note: no additional assignment for the reading period]

Source:  Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003. Box 7, Folder “Economics, 1959-60”.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics

Economics 111a
Final Examination

June 2, 1960

Answer four and only four of the following six questions.

  1. Explain the “price-consumption” curve for a single household in a perfectly competitive consumers’ goods market. What determines the shape of the curve? By use of this curve, show how the household’s consumption might be affected by a percentage sales tax on one commodity. What determines the total taxes paid by the household?
  2. In an economy which otherwise is perfectly competitive, a trade union arbitrarily limits entry of workers into a single industry. In equilibrium, what conditions for an economic optimum are violated?
  3. “Under ‘free’ competition it is true that individual firms have monopoly power and hence charge prices above marginal costs. But since there is free entry, there hardly can be any serious economic waste on this account, for prices cannot long exceed average cost.” Discuss.
  4. For purposes of fixing prices for a public enterprise, what arguments might be advanced for and against acceptance of each of the following theoretic principles:
    1. Maximization of profits;
    2. Pricing at average cost, including a “normal” competitive return on invested capital;
    3. Pricing at marginal cost;
    4. Pricing at minimum average costs.
  5. Explain briefly:
    1. Parametric function of prices;
    2. “Technological” versus “pecuniary” external economies;
    3. “Accounting prices” in economics of development;
    4. “Defective telescopic faculty.”
  6. Discuss the different approaches employed in welfare economics to the problem of income distribution.

 

Source:  Harvard University Archives. Papers Printed for Final Examinations: History, History of Religions, …, Economics, …,Naval Science, Air Science. June 1960. In Social Sciences, Final Examinations, June 1960 (HUC 2000.28, No. 128).

Portrait of Abram Bergson. See Paul A. Samuelson, “Abram Bergson, 1914-2003: A Biographical Memoir”, in National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs, Volume 84 (Washington, D.C.: 2004).

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Harvard. Graduate core economic theory, Syllabus and Exams. Chamberlin, 1941-42.

 

Reading assignments in the first year core economic theory course taught by Edward Chamberlin at Harvard University in 1941-42 included some of the golden ‘oldies of David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, John Elliott Cairnes, John Bates Clark, and Alfred Marshall. Works by Joan Robinson, John Hicks and, of course, Chamberlin himself provided modern accents to the economic theory taught in the course.

Edward Chamberlin’s syllabus and final year-end exam for his 1938-39 version of core economic theory were posted earlier as have been the syllabus and both semester final exams for 1946-47.

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Economic Theory.
Edward Hastings Chamberlin

Course Enrollment

[Economics] 101. Professor Chamberlin. – Economic Theory.

Total 53: 9 Graduates, 7 Radcliffe, 8 School of Public Administration.

Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College, 1941-42, p. 63.

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Course Description

[Economics] 101. – Economic Theory.

This course aims to provide a general background in economic theory. Leading problems in value and distribution will be discussed with some reference to particular writers and schools of thought, but with the main objective of training the student in economic analysis. Active participation in the class discussions is expected.

Source: Identical descriptions in the Division of History, Government, and Economics announcements for 1940-41 and 1942-43.

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Economics 101

1941-42

First Semester

I.     Mill – Principles, Book II, chapter 4; Book III, chapters 1, 2.

Chamberlin – Monopolistic Competition, chapters 1, 2.

Mill – Principles, Book III, chapters 3, 5, 6.

Marshall – Principles, pp. 348-50; p. 806 note.

Mill – Principles, Book III, chapter 4.

Suggested Reading:

Introduction to the Ashley ed. of Mill, or

Mill’s Autobiography

Ricardo – Political Economy (Gonner edition), chapter 1.

II.   Boehm-Bawerk – Positive Theory of Capital, Books III, IV.

Marshall – Principles, Appendix I.

Wicksell – Lectures on Political Economy, chapter 1.

Suggested Reading:

Jevons – Theory of Political Economy, chapters 3, 4.

Phelps-Brown– The Framework of the Pricing System, chapter 2.

III.  Hicks – Value and Capital, chapters 1, 2.

IV. Marshall – Principles, Book V, chapters 1-5; Book IV, chapter 13; Book V, chapters 8, 9, 10, 12; Appendix H.

Knight, F. H. – “Cost of Production and Price over Long and Short Periods”, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 29, p. 304 (1921). (Reprinted in Knight, The Ethics of Competition and Other Essays, Chapter 8).

Viner – “Cost Curves and Supply Curves,” Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 1931.

Chamberlin – Monopolistic Competition, Appendix B.

Suggested Reading:

Additional reading in Marshall.

Keynes – “Alfred Marshall” – Economic Journal, September 1924. (Also in Keynes, Essays in Biography.)

Sraffa – “The Laws of Returns under Competitive Conditions,” Economic Journal, Vol. 36, p. 535 (1926).

Taussig, F. W. –  “Price Fixing as Seen by a Price Fixer,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 33, p. 205.

V.  Chamberlin – Monopolistic Competition, chapter 3.

Abramovitz – “Monopolistic Selling in a Changing Economy”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 52, p. 191 (1938).

Suggested Reading:

Zeuthen – Problems of Monopoly, chapter 2.

Monopolistic Competition, Appendix A.Problems of Monopoly and Economic Warfare

VI.   Robinson – Imperfect Competition, Introduction, and chapters 1,2,3.

Chamberlin – Monopolistic Competition, chapters 4, 5; Appendices D, E.

Chamberlin – “Monopolistic or Imperfect Competition?”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August, 1937.

Sweezy, P. M. – “On the Definition of Monopoly”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 51, p. 362 (1937)

Cassels, J. M. – “Excess Capacity and Monopolistic Competition”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 51, p. 426. (1937)

Suggested Reading:

Kaldor – “Professor Chamberlin on Monopolistic and Imperfect Competition”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May, 1938: and Reply.

Robinson – Imperfect Competition, chapters 4, 5, 6, 7.

VII. Chamberlin – Monopolistic Competition, Appendix C.

Alsberg, C. L. – “Economic Aspects of Adulteration and Imitation”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 46, p. 1 (1931).

Suggested Reading:

Hotelling, H. “Stability in Competition”, Economic Journal, Vol. 39, p. 41 (1929)

Lerner, A. P. and Singer, H.W. – “Some Notes on Duopoly and Spatial Competition”, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 45, p. 145 (1937)

Burns, A.R. – The Decline of Competition, chapter VIII, “Non-Price Competition”.

 

Source:  Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, Course Outlines and ReadingLists in Economics, 1895-2003. Box 2, Folder, “Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1941-42.”

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1941-42
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 101
Mid-year examination, 1942.

Answer question 2 and any five of the others (six in all).

  1. What parts of Mill’s theory of value would be acceptable and what parts not acceptable to economic theory today?
  2. Answer either (a) or (b).
    1. What does utility theory contribute to our understanding of the economic process, and how useful do you think it is to the economist of 1942? Answer the same question for the indifference curve analysis.
    2. Discuss the following proposition: “An individual will maximize his total satisfaction or utility, if the marginal utilities of all commodities are equalized.”
  3. Distinguish between a supply curve and a cost curve. Under what conditions is it possible for either or both to fall from left to right? What are the consequences of such a phenomenon?
  4. Write a critical appraisal of Professor Viner’s article “Cost Curves and Supply Curves,” confining yourself to the subjects which seem to you most important. Compare his views where possible with those of other writers and with your own.
  5. What types of industries, if any, would you expect to find operating under conditions of increasing cost? Constant cost? Decreasing cost? Compare your own views with those of other writers with whom you are familiar.
  6. Discuss the difficulties involved in constructing a demand curve for the product of an individual firm where oligopolistic influences are important.
  7. What has monopolistic competition in common with pure competition? With monopoly? Discuss fully.
  8. Answer either (a) or (b).
    1. Discuss any aspect of the experimental market problem worked out in class which you think interesting or important.
    2. “With respect to quality there appears to be a sort of ‘Gresham’s Law’ for commodities: the inferior products tend to drive the better ones from the market.” Discuss.

Source:  Harvard University Archives.  Harvard University, Mid-year examinations 1852-1943. Box 15, Papers Printed for Mid-Year Examinations: History, History of Religions,…, Economics, …, Military Science, Naval Science. January-February, 1942.

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Economics 101

1941-42

Second Semester

I.    Selling Costs:

Monopolistic Competition, Chapters 6, 7.

Braithwaite, Dorothea, “The Economic Effects of Advertisement,” Economic Journal, Vol. 38, p. 16 (1928). Reprinted as Chapter VII in Braithwaite and Dobbs, the Distribution of Consumable Goods.

II.   Distribution – General:

Marshall, Principles, Book VI, Chapters 1-5.

Clark, J. B., Distribution of Wealth, Chapter 8.

Knight, Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, Chapter 4.

Chamberlin, Monopolistic Competition, Chapter 8.

Suggested Reading:

Garver & Hansen, Principles, Chapter 5.

Kahn, “Some Notes on Ideal Output” (last half) Economic Journal.

III. Wages:

Hicks, Theory of Wages, Chapters 1-7; 9; 10, section 1; 11, section 5.

Taussig, Principles, 3rd revised edition Chapter 47.

Robertson, Economic Fragments, Chapter on “Wage Grumbles.”

Suggested Reading:

Machlup,  “The Common Sense of Elasticity of Substitution,” Review of Economic Studies, Vol. II, Page 202.

Cairnes, Leading Principles, Chapter 3.

IV.  Interest:

Böhm-Bawerk, Positive Theory, Book I, chapter 2; Book II; Book V; Book VI, chapters 5, 6, 7; Book VII, chapters 1, 2, 3.

Fisher, Theory of Interest, pp. 473-85.

Marshall, Principles, Book IV, chapter 7; Book VI, chapter 1, sections 8, 9, 10, chapter 2, section 4, chapter 6.

Wicksell, Lectures, Vol. I, pages 144-171, 185-195, 207-218.

Clark, J. B., Distribution of Wealth, chapters 9, 20.

Schumpeter, Theory of Economic Development, chapters 1-5.

V.    Rent:

Ricardo, Chapter 2.

Marshall, Book V, chapters 8, 9, 10, 11.

Robinson, Imperfect Competition, chapters 8, 9.

VI.   Profits:

Marshall, Book VI, chapter 5, section 7; chapters 7, 8.

Taussig, Principles, 3rd revised edition, Vol. II, chapter 50, section 1.

Henderson, Supply & Demand, chapter 7.

Chamberlin, Monopolistic Competition, chapter 5, section 6; chapter 7, section 6; Appendices D, E.

Schumpeter, (see under Interest)

Berle and Means, The Modern Corporation, Book IV.

Gordon, R.A., “Enterprise, Profits and the Modern Corporation,” in “Explorations in Economics,” p. 306.

Suggested Reading:

Knight, Risk, Uncertainty and Profit.

VII. General:

Knight, The Ethics of Competition, Essay No. 11: “Economic Theory and Nationalism.”

 

Source:  Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, Course Outlines and Reading Lists in Economics, 1895-2003. Box 2, Folder, “Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1941-42.”

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1941-42
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 101
Final examination, 1942.

Write on FIVE questions altogether, four from Part A and one from Part B. Be careful to divide your time about evenly between the questions.

A
Write on FOUR questions from this group.

  1. What conflicts and harmonies of interest do you find between labor and the rest of society in the matter of wages, technical progress and efficiency? Discuss the issues involved with some reference to the economic theory of the subject.
  2. Describe and contrast the several most important types of interest theory which you have found in your reading, identifying them where possible with particular writers. State and defend your own theory of interest.
  3. The rent of land has been variously described as a scarcity return, a differential return, a surplus and a monopoly income. Discuss the issues presented by each of these terms and give your own conclusions.
  4. To what extent, if at all, do you believe it possible to explain profits in terms of the marginal productivity of the entrepreneurial factor? Discuss with some reference to issues raised in your reading on the subject of profits.
  5. What various meanings have been or may be given to the concept of “marginal productivity,” and under what conditions would each meaning be relevant? Discuss the circumstances under which all factors may be remunerated according to their marginal products without deficit or surplus.

B
Write on FOUR questions from this group.

  1. “Both prices and monopoly profits are necessarily increased by the presence of advertising.” Do you agree? Discuss critically.
  2. “From this it will appear that the law of increasing or decreasing economy of large-scale production, while sufficiently distinct from that of increasing or diminishing returns to warrant a difference of name, is yet very much like it.” (From Carver’s Distribution of Wealth) Discuss, giving your own conclusions on this set of issues.
  3. Discuss critically Knight’s essay on “Economic Theory and Nationalism” or any part or phase of it which interested you in particular.

Source:  Harvard University Archives.  Harvard University, Final examinations 1853-2001. Box 6, Papers Printed for Final Examinations: History, History of Religions,…, Economics, …, Military Science, Naval Science. June, 1942.

Image Source: Edward Chamberlin in Harvard Class Album, 1939.

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Columbia. Bibliography on Government Debt for Fiscal Policy Course. Shoup, 1948

 

Government debt was the subject of this first installment of a planned (perhaps completed later) bibliography for a course on fiscal policy that was prepared by Carl Shoup (New York Times obituary). This draft with a few hand-corrections was found in the papers of his colleague in public finance, Robert Haig.

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Economics b160—Fiscal policy. 3 points. Spring Session. Professor Shoup. M. W. 9. 710 Business.

A study of the reasons why governments choose to follow a policy of deficit financing, balanced-budget financing, or surplus financing, as the case may be, with emphasis on the economic forces that influence these decisions and on the economic results of the various policies. Topics discussed include war finance, compensatory spending in a depression, public finance aspects of theories of long-term investment stagnation, and the problems of the interest charge on the budget and the growing stock of money that may be associated with a great increase in the public debt.

Source: Columbia University. Announcement of the Faculty of Political Science for the Winter and Spring Sessions, 1947-1948, p. 50.

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[Pencilled Note: “For Dr. Haig. (Parts II, III, IV to follow)”]

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

BIBLIOGRAPHY, ECONOMICS b160,
FISCAL POLICY
February, 1948

This bibliography is divided into four parts, and each part is further divided into sections. The four parts are:

Part I. Government Debt
Part II. Taxation
Part III. Government Expenditures
Part IV. Fiscal Policy in the United States and Abroad in Recent Years

Most of the sections are directly concerned with government debt, taxation, and expenditures; for these sections an attempt has been made to present a fairly comprehensive coverage of the periodical and book literature of the past three or four years. The readings that are particularly important for purposes of the present course are marked with an asterisk. The asterisked readings have been put on reserve in the School of Business library.

A few sections are concerned with topics that are only collateral to fiscal policy: for example, the technique of bank deposit expansion, and data on recent changes in amount of currency outstanding. In these sections the references are highly selective, being designed only to assist the student to refresh his background, or to suggest a minimum of reading.

PART I: GOVERNMENT DEBT

  1. Technique of Credit Creation by the Banking System
  2. Technical Characteristics and Pattern of Ownership of Each Type of Federal Security
  3. Non-Negotiable Securities; Securities Ineligible for Bank Holding
  4. Currency
  5. Gold and Silver
  6. Bank Holdings of Government Bonds, and Data on Bank Deposits
  7. Total Interest Charge on Government Debt
  8. Interest Rates
  9. “Burden” of Debt
  10. Debt Management
  11. Debt Management and Credit Control

 

1. Technique of Credit Creation by the Banking System. –The creation of credit by commercial banks is well described in a general way by Bowman and Bach, Economic Analysis and Public Policy (1943), 589-99; but to get a thorough understanding, the student should read J. Brooke Willis, The Relation of Bank Deposits to War Finance (Chase National Bank, November 18, 1942, mimeographed). A description of the Federal Reserve System is given on pp. 636-53 of Bowman and Bach. See also J. E. Horbett, “Banking Structure of the United States,” in Banking Studies, by members of the staff, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (1941). Some brief discussions in the Federal Reserve Bulletin may aid in avoiding elementary misconceptions: “Central Banking” (December 1940), “Federal Reserve Bank Lending Power…” (February 1941), “Bank Credit and…Reserves”- (July 1941), “Bank Deposits [and]…Savings Bonds” (August 1941). An explanation of how credit is created under the British banking system, with particular attention to wartime developments, is given in Norman Crump, Facts about British Banks and the War (1943).

 

2. Technical Characteristics and Pattern of Ownership of Each Type of Federal Security.— The types of security issued by the Federal Government, and the relative importance of each, are given in the monthly Bulletin of the Treasury Department, in the section headed “General Fund Position and Debt Outstanding” (consult any recent issue). Note the names of the different kinds of obligations, their respective interest rates and periods to maturity, as shown in the tables headed “Offerings of Marketable Issues of Treasury Bonds, Notes, and Certificates of Indebtedness” “Offerings and Maturities of Treasury Bills,” “Sales and Redemptions of United States Savings Bonds.—Table 1, Summary…,” and “Sales and Redemptions of Treasury Savings Notes.—Table 1, Summary…” Then study the tables headed “Public Debt and Guaranteed Obligations of the United States Government Outstanding”: “Table 1, Summary;” and “Table 2, Interest-Bearing Public Debt;” then the table headed “Computed Interest Charge and Computed Interest Rate….” Note the data on who owns the federal debt, in the section headed “Ownership of Government Securities.” Study the charts on “Yields of Treasury Securities….”

See also:

Hargreaves, H. W. H., “The Guaranteed Security in Federal Finance,” J.P.E., Aug., 1942.

Mann, F. K., “The Dual-Debt System as a Method of Financing Government Corporations,” J.P.E., Feb., 1947, 39-56.

Simmons, E. C., “The Position of the Treasury Bill in the National Debt,” J.P.E., Aug., 1947, 333-45.

“Treasury Financing Operations,” statement on first page of each issue of Treasury Bulletin in recent issues.

“Direct Exchange of Maturing Treasury Bills for New Issues,” Fed. Res. Bull., May, 1947.

“Treasury Bills and Certificates as Outlets for Idle Funds,” Fed. Res. Bull. July, 1942.

“The Tax Savings Plan,” Red. Res. Bull., Aug., 1941.

 

3. Non-Negotiable Securities; Securities Ineligible for Bank Holding.—

Secretary of the Treasury, “Spreading the Public Debt,” Treasury Bulletin, May, 1947.

Secretary of the Treasury, “The Role of Savings Bonds in Public Debt Management,” Treasury Bulletin, May, 1947.

Tostlebe, A. S., “Estimate of Series E Bond Purchases by Farmers,” J.A.S.A., Sept., 1945.

“Bank Purchases of Restricted Treasury Bonds,” Treasury Bulletin, July, 1946.

 

4. Currency.—The wartime rise in currency is described by G. L. Bach, “Currency in Circulation,” Federal Reserve Bulletin, April, 1944. See also the following unsigned articles in the Federal Reserve Bulletin: “The Currency Function of the Federal Reserve Banks,” July, 1940; “Recent Changes in the Demand for Currency,” April, 1942; and “Relation between Currency and Bank Deposits,” May, 1943.

For a historical treatment: V. M. Longstreet, “Currency System of the U.S.” in Banking Studies, Federal Reserve System, 1941. For terminology; I. B. Cross, “A Note on the Use of the Word ‘Currency,’” J.P.E., December, 1944.

 

5. Gold and Silver.—The vast literature in recent years on the gold situation in general will not be considered here; however, reference by be made to F. D. Graham and C. R. Whittlesey, Golden Avalanche, 1939. For the place of gold in the present U.S. money and credit system, see Bowman and Bach, Economic Analysis and Public Policy, Chapter 42, “Gold and the Price Level,” and a series of notes in the Federal Reserve Bulletin: “Ownership of the Monetary Gold Stock” (May, 1940), “Utilization of the Monetary Gold Stock” (June, 1940), “The Gold Stock” (September, 1940), “Definition of Lawful Money” (July, 1941), and “Money and Inflation” (March, 1944). The Treasury position on gold was stated by Secretary Morgenthau in two press releases, March 23, 1939 (reply to Senator Wagner’s questions) and May 3, 1940 (address before National Institute of Government).

 

6. Bank Holdings of Government Bonds, and Data on Bank Deposits—An appreciation of the quantitative aspects of the bank-credit expansion of the war and postwar years can be obtained from “The Wartime Expansion of Liquid Assets,” Fed. Res. Bull., Oct., 1944, and from “Estimated Liquid Asset Holdings of Individuals and Business,” Fed. Res. Bull., Sept., 1947, and earlier reports on the same subject in the issues of June, 1945; Feb., 1946; and Nov., 1946.

See also:

Robinson, Roland I., “Money Supply and Liquid Asset Formation,” A.E.R., March, 1946.

Warburton, Clark, “Quantity and Frequency of Use of Money in the United States, 1919-45,” J.P.E., Oct., 1946.

“Ownership of Demand Deposits [as of Feb. 26, 1947],” Fed. Res. Bull., June, 1947.

* “Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks and Mutual Savings Banks, December 31, 1939-1946.” Treasury Bulletin, July, 1947.

“Measurement of Factors Influencing the Volume of Deposits and Currency,” Fed. Res. Bull., June, 1944.

“Wartime Monetary Expansion and Postwar Needs,” Fed. Res. Bull., Nov. 1945. For the growth in deposits prior to the war, see “Factors Responsible for Increase in Bank Deposits,” Fed. Res. Bull., March, 1941.

 

7. Total Interest Charge on Government Debt.—

“Transfer to Treasury of Excess Earnings of Federal Reserve Banks,” Fed. Res. Bull., May, 1947, 518-19.

Rolph, Earl R., “The Payment of Interest on Series E Bonds,” A.E.A. Proceedings., May, 1947, 318-21.

Shoup, Carl, “Postwar Federal Interest Charge,” A.E.R., Supplement to June, 1944 issue (“Implemental Aspects of Public Finance”).

 

8. Interest Rates.—The average rates (including the case of zero interest) and the structure of interest rates of the public debt are discussed particularly in the following articles. The recent United States experience is analyzed in:

Coleman, G. W., “The Effect of Interest Rate Increases on the Banking System,” A.E.R., Sept. ’45.

Harris, S. E., “A One Per Cent War?” A.E.R., Sept. ’45.

*Samuelson, Paul A., “The Effect of Interest Rate Increases on the Baking System,” A.E.R, March, 1945.

Samuelson, P. A. “The Turn of the Screw [Interest Rates and the Banks],” A.E.R., Sept. ’45.

Seligman, H. L., “The Problem of Excessive Commercial Bank Earnings,” Q.J.E., May, 1946.

*Seltzer, L. H., “Is a Rise in Interest Rates Desirable or Inevitable?” A.E.R., Dec., 1945.

Wallich, Henry C., “The Changing Significance of the Interest Rate,” A.E.R., Dec. 1946.

Willis, J. Brooke, “The Case against the Maintenance of the Wartime Pattern of Yields on Government Securities,” A.E.A. Proceedings, May, 1947.

“Yields on United States Government Securities—Revision of Averages,” Fed. Res. Bull., Oct., 1947.

The wartime position of the United States Treasury on interest rates was stated by Secretary Morgenthau in three addresses printed in the Treasury Bulletin, Nov. 1944.

Recent British discussion includes:

Henderson, H., “Cheap Money and the Budget,” E.J. Sept., ’47.

Paish, F. W., “Cheap Money Policy,” Economica, Aug., 1947.

The particular case of interest-free financing has been the subject of some debate recently; see:

Poindexter, Julius C., Proposals for Interest-Free Deficit Financing. Ph.D. Virginia, 1944 (May be obtained on inter-library loan).

Poindexter, J.C., “Fallacies of Interest-Free Deficit Financing,” Q.J.E., May, 1944.

Wright, D. McC., “Interest-Free Deficit Financing: a Reply,” Q.J.E., Aug., 1944.

Poindexter, J. C., “Interest-Free Deficit Financing: Rejoinder [to Wright’s article],” Q.J.E., Nov. 1945.

Poindexter, J. C., “A Critique of Functional Finance through Quasi-Free Bank Credit,” A.E.R., June, 1946.

Benoit-Smullyan, Emile, “Interest-Free Deficit Financing and Full Employment [Poindexter’s article],” A.E.R., June, 1947.

Pritchard, L. J., “The Nature of Bank Credit [Poindexter’s article]: A Comment,” A.E.R., June, 1947.

In view of the recent changes in the interest rate structure, the forecasts of a few years ago are worth reviewing:

Morgan, E. V., “The Future of Interest Rates,” E.J., Dec., 1944.

Round Table, “The Future of Interest Rates,” A.E.A. Proceedings, March, 1943.

Riddle, J. H., “The Future of Interest Rates,” Bankers Magazine, March, 1943.

 

9. “Burden” of Debt.—Interest and amortization requirements on the public debt lead to a discussion of the degree to which a domestically held debt is a burden. On this topic, see:

*Kalecki, M., “The Burden of the National Debt,” Bull., Oxford Inst. Stat., April 3, 1943.

Ratchford, B. U., “The Burden of a Domestic Debt,” A.E.R., Sept., 1942.

Wright, D. Mc., “Mr. Ratchford on the Burden of a Domestic Debt: Comment,” A.E.R., March, 1943.

*Hansen, A. H., “The Growth and Role of Public Debt,” Ch. IX, especially pp. 135-44, 152-61, 175-85, in Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles.

Harris, S. E., “Postwar Public Debt,” Chapter X in Postwar Economic Problems;

Mitnitzky, Mark, “Some Monetary Aspects of Government Borrowing” A.E.R., March, 1943.

Hahn, A., “Should a Government Debt, Internally Held, Be Called A Debt at All?” Banking Law Journal, July, 1943.

Domar, E. D., “The ‘Burden of the Debt’ and the National Income,” A.E.R., Dec., 1944.

Ratchford, B.U., “Mr. Domar’s ‘Burden of the Debt,” and rejoinder by Domar, A.E.R., June, 1945, 411-14.

 

10. Debt Management.—More comprehensive discussions of the problems posed by the public debt are found in writings on “debt management,” “limits to the debt,” etc. (see also the references in No. 11 below):

*Abbott, Charles C., Management of the Federal Debt, McGraw-Hill, 1946, 187 pp., Rev. in A.E.R., March, ’47.

*Committee on Public Debt Policy, National Debt Series, Nos. 1 to 4 issued in 1947. 12 to 22 pp. each.

Garritsen, Margaret M., Some Theoretical and Practical Problems in the Management of the Federal Debt in the Postwar Period. Ph.D., Mass. Inst. of Tech. 1946. (May be available on inter-library loan.)

*Hansen, A. H., “Federal Debt Policy,” Proceed., N.T.A., 1944, 256-67, 295-97.

Leland, Simeon E., “Management of the Public Debt after the War,” A.E.R., Supplement to the June 1944 issue (“Implemental Aspects of Public Finance”), and discussion by D. T. Smith and L. H. Seltzer.

Leonard, Norman H., Public Debt Management. Ph.D. Yale (no date given). (May be available on inter-library loan.)

Mehta, J. K., “Some Problems of Public Debt,” South Indian Journal of Economics, Feb., 1946.

Neale, E. P., “The Growth of New Zealand’s General Government Debt,” Eco. Record, Dec. 1945.

Neumark, F., “Limite de la dette publique ou deficit permanent?” L’Egypte Contemp., March, 1946.

Ratchford, Benjamin U., “History of the Federal Debt in the United States,” A.E.A. Proceedings, May, 1947, 131-41; discussion by L. Wilmerding Jr. and C. C. Abbott, 151-56.

Suiter, William O., “Some Questions Relative to the Management of the National Government Debt,” Bull. N.T.A., June, 1946.

Wallich, H. C., “La dueda publica y el ingreso nacional de Estados Unidos,” El Trimestre Econ., Jan. and April, 1946.

*Wallich, H. C., “Debt Management as an Instrument of Economic Policy,” A.E.R., June, 1946.

Wickens, Aryness Joy, “The Public Debt and National Income,” A.E.A., Proceedings, May, 1947.

Woodward, Donald B., “Public Debt and Institutions,” A.E.A. Proceedings, May, 1947, 157-83. Discussion by L. H. Seltzer, Susan S. Burr, R. J. Saulnier and E. A. Goldenweiser.

 

11. Debt Management and Credit Control.—The complex relations that link debt management and credit control have received increasing attention in recent years as evidenced by the following articles. The discussion is chiefly in terms of inflationary rather than deflationary conditions.

Abbott, Charles C., “The Commercial Banks and the Public Debt”; discussion by H. H. Preston, A.E.A. Proceedings, May, 1947.

Arndt, H. W., “The Monetary Theory of Deficit Spending: A Comment on …. Warburton’s Article [in RES, 1945, 74-84].” R.E.Stat., May, 1946.

Bach, George L., “Monetary-Fiscal Policy, Debt Policy, and the Price Level,” A.E.A. Proceedings, May, 1947.

Carr, Hobart C., “The Problem of Bank-Held Government Debt,” A.E.R., Dec. 1946.

Chamberlain, N. W., “Professor Hansen’s Fiscal Policy and the Debt”; rejoinder by Hansen, A.E.R., June, 1945.

Cluseau, M., “De quelques definitions necessaires,” Rev. de Sci. et Législ. Fin., April, 1947.

Eccles, M. S., “Sources of Inflationary Pressures,” Fed. Res.Bull., Feb. 1946.

*Eccles, M., “Methods of Restricting Monetization of Public Debt by Banks,” Fed. Res. Bull., April, 1947.

Eccles, M. S., “The Current Inflation Problem—Causes and Controls,” Fed. Res. Bull. Dec., 1947.

Goldenweiser, E. A., “Federal Reserve Objectives and Policies: Retrospect and Prospect,” A.E.R., June 1947.

Hauge, Gabriel, Banking Aspects of Treasury Borrowing in World War II. Ph.D., Harvard, 1947 (Available only on inter-library loan.)

*Hardy, C. O., “Bank Policy versus Fiscal Policy as an Economic Stabilizer,” Proceed. Nat. Tax Assn., 1946.

Lerner, Abba P., “Money as a Creature of the State,” A.E.A. Proceedings, May, 1947.

Mikesell, Raymond F., “Gold Sales as an Anti-Inflationary Device,” R.E.Stat., May, 1946.

Mints, Lloyd W., Hansen, A. H., Ellis, Howard S., Lerner, A. P. and Kalecki, M. “A Symposium on Fiscal and Monetary Policy,” R.E.Stat., May, 1946.

Robinson, R. I., “The Reserve Position of the Federal Reserve Banks,” Fed. Res. Bull., March, 1945.

Seltzer, Lawrence, “The Changed Environment of Monetary-Banking Policy”; discussions by D. B. Woodward and R. A. Young, A.E.A. Proceedings, May, 1946.

*Simons, Henry C., Economic Policy for a Free Society, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1948, 353 pp. espec. Chs. VII, “Rules versus Authorities in Monetary Policy,” VIII, “Hansen on Fiscal Policy,” IX, “On Debt Policy,” X, “Debt Policy and Banking Policy” and XIII, “The Beveridge Plan: an Unsympathetic Interpretation.”

Sproul, Allan, “Monetary Management and Credit Control,” A.E.R., June, 1947.

Sweezy, Alan R., “Fiscal and Monetary Policy”; discussion by J. H. G. Pierson, W. J. Fellner, and Clark Warburton; A.E.A. Proceedings, May, 1946.

Villard, H. H., “The Problem of Bank-Held Government Debt: Comment [on Carr’s article],” A.E.R., Dec. 1947.

Wallace, Robert F., “The Federal Debt and Inflation,” Bull. N.T.A., June, 1947.

Wallich, H. C., “The Current Significance of Liquidity Preference,” Q.J.E., Aug., 1946.

*Warburton, Clark, “The Monetary Theory of Deficit Spending,” R.E.Stat., May, 1945, 74-84.

Warburton, Clark, “Monetary Theory, Full Productivity, and the Great Depression,” Econometrica, April, 1945.

Warburton, Clark, “The Volume of Money,” J.P.E., June 1945.

Whitaker, T. K., Financing by Credit Creation, Dublin, 1947, 67pp. (E.J., Sept. ’47.)

Whittlesey, C. R., “Federal Reserve Policy in Transition,” Q.J.E., May, 1946.

“Treasury Finance and Banking Developments,” Fed. Res. Bull., May, 1946.

* “Debt Retirement and Bank Credit,” Fed. Res. Bull., July, 1947.

 

Source: Columbia University Libraries, Manuscript Collections. Robert M. Haig Collection. Box 16, Folder “Bibliography”.

Image Source: The Columbia Spectator Archive. March 8, 1967.

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Chicago History of Economics Suggested Reading

Chicago. Bibliography for History of Economic Thought. Frank Knight, 1933

 

 

Milton Friedman’s papers at the Hoover Institution Archives include the economics course notes from his student years. In an earlier post I transcribed Friedman’s own listing of his coursework in economics, statistics and mathematics by quarter/semester and academic institution. This is how we know that it was during the 1933 Winter Quarter that Milton Friedman attended Frank Knight’s course on the history of economic thought.  Friedman’s notes begin with a four page course bibliography. An image of the first page is included below. A transcription of the complete bibliography, augmented with links to almost all items, immediately follows.  

I had earlier transcribed the mimeographed course bibliography from the 1946 Winter Quarter found in Norman Kaplan’s student notes that I found in the University of Chicago archives. The 1946 course bibliography includes about twenty additional items when compared this 1933 version.

With a clear, typed bibliography to check against Friedman’s sometimes only partially legible handwritten notes, I discovered that duplication technology must have dramatically improved between 1933 and 1946 at the University of Chicago. Friedman clearly copied from a nearly identical bibliography (including Knight annotations!) that I surmise might have been only available as a single typed list posted with reserve material at the library. 

First page of Frank Knight’s bibliography for the History of Economic Thought course in Milton Friedman’s student notes at the University of Chicago, Winter Quarter 1933.

 

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Economics 302
History of Economic Thought
Frank H. Knight

Bibliography

General Works

Gray, Alexander—Development of Economic Doctrine

Haney, L.H.—History of Economic Thought

(Read both of them on classical school with care)

Ingram, J. K.—A History of Political Economy. Briefer than Haney, and usable

Spann, O. History of Economics (English Translation [of 19th German ed., 1930]) [17th ed., German original Die Hauptheorien der Volkswirtschaftslehre (1928)]

Valuable for its intense opposition to the viewpoint of the classical school, in favor of an organismic or universalistic standpoint.

Won’t make much use of:

Oncken A.—Geschichte der National Ökonomie. Very good up to Adam Smith (Knight likes)

Gide, C. and Rist, C.—History of Economic Doctrine. (Translation from French) Competent but uninspired book. (Begins with Physiocrats) (Knight does not like.)

Schumpeter, Joseph—Epochen der Dogmen- und Methodengeschichte, contained in Grundriss der Sozialökonomik, Vol. I. [English translation]

On the whole period before the classical school

Monroe, A.E.—Early Economic Thought. Lengthy excerpts from important writers

Dunning, W.A.—History of Political Theories, Ancient and Mediaeval

Dunning, W.A.—History of Political Theories, From Luther to Montesquieu

 

Greco-Roman Economics

Miss [E.] Simey—article entitled Economic Theory among the Greeks and Romans [Economic Review vol. 10 (October 1900), pp. 462-481] (On Reserve)—Best about ancient

Laistner, M.L.W.—Greek Economics, Introduction and excerpts.

 

Medieval

Ashley, W. J.—English Economic History and Theory. Volume I, Part I, Chapter 3, and Volume I, Part II, Chapter 6. Best general account.

O’Brien, George—An Essay on Medieval Economic Theory. Highly important, especially because from a Catholic point of view.

Becker Carl, The Heavenly City of the 18th Century Philosophers. Chapter 1 on the climate of opinion.

Tawney, R.H.—Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Chapter I on the Medieval Background.

 

Physiocrats.

(Given very little attention in this course)

Ware, Norman—article on the Physiocrats in American Economic Review, 1931

Turgot, A.R.J., Formation and Distribution of Riches (Ashley Economic Classics)

 

Mercantilism

Viner, J. English Theories of Foreign Trade before Adam Smith. In Journal of Political Economy, volume 38, numbers 3 and 4. [Reprinted in Studies in the Theory of International Trade: First Part; Second Part]

Schmoller, Gustav. The Mercantile System. Invaluable, also as a specimen of the German Historical Economics.

Ashley, W. J. The Tory Origin of Free Trade. Q. J. E. Volume 11.

 

Classical School

Whitaker A. C.—Labor Theory of Value in English Political Economy. Nearly essential.

Cannan E. –Theories of Production and Distribution. Valuable, but laborious reading.

Cannan—Review of Economic Theory. Later and more available.

 

(Ought to own)

Adam Smith—Wealth of Nations. Full text, Everyman’s Library (2 volumes) most available [Volume One; Volume Two]. Abridged edition edited by Ashley gives part covered in course conveniently in one volume. Cannan Edition (2 vols.), the definitive edition, but expensive and bulky.

Ricardo, David—Principles of Political Economy. Gonnar Edition best. Available in Everyman’s.

Mill, J. S.—Principles of Political Economy. Ashley edition

 

Subjective Value or Marginal Utility School

Smart Wm.—Introduction to the Theory of Value.

Wieser, F.—Natural Value

Smart’s prefaces to Böhm-Bawerk’s two main volumes [Böhm-Bawerk Capital and Interest and Positive Theory of Capital] and to Wieser’s Natural Value.

Weinberger, Otto—Die Grenznutzenschule

Mises, Ludwig—Bemerkungen zum Grundproblem der Subjektivistischen Wertlehre, contained in Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik. Band 59, Heft 1.

 

Source: Hoover Institution Archives.  Milton Friedman Papers, Box 120. Notebook: “Economics

Image Source: Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-03516.

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Economists Harvard Suggested Reading Syllabus Undergraduate

Harvard. Syllabus and final exam for National Income and its Distribution. Conrad, 1958

 

 

For this post I have transcribed the syllabus with reading assignments together with the final exam questions for Alfred H. Conrad’s undergraduate semester course, “National Income and its Distribution,” taught at Harvard during the 1958-59 academic year. As utterly important as the national income accounts have proven themselves to be, the data from these accounts are generally just taken for granted by the overwhelming majority of economists and woe be the instructor who tries to introduce such material in more than one or two sessions in their macroeconomics course. But I have always liked the stuff and so this course enters the Economics in the Rear-view Mirror collection.

While I can recall having heard of his pioneering econometric work on American slavery with John R. Meyer in an American economic history course I took many decades ago at Yale, I really knew nothing about Conrad’s career, other work, or his personal life. The biographical data from the members’ survey of the American Economic Association are undoubtedly the truth, but not the whole truth, which is why I have provided the link to his New York Times obituary and a story about his wife, the poet Adrienne Rich. Suicide sadly cut his career short but I am happy to enter these few artifacts into the historical record in his memory.

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On Alfred H. Conrad and his wife, poet, Adrienne Rich

New York Times obituary for Alfred H. Conrad: October 20, 1970.

The Guardian article “Poet and Pioneer” by John O’Mahoney (15 June 2002) that provides a review of the work of Conrad’s wife, the poet Adrienne Rich, with a dozen paragraphs about their lives together.

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American Economic Association
Member Biographic Entry, 1969

CONRAD, Alfred Haskell, academic; b. New York City, 1924; A.B., Harvard, 1947, M.A., 1949, Ph,D., 1954.

DOC. DIS. The Redistribution of Income and the Matrix Multiplier, 1953.

FIELDS 2ab, 3ab, Ic.

PUB. The Economics of Slavery and other studies in econometric history (with John R. Meyer), 1964; The Impact of Education and Research on Efficiency in CES Production Relations (with Murray Brown), 1967; Econometric Models and Development Planning, 1968.

RES. The Diffusion of Technological Innovations.

Asst. prof., Northwestern, 1955-56; asst. prof. econ., Harvard, high, 1956-59, mem. sr. research staff, Econ. Research Project, 1952-59, lectr. bus. adm., 1959-61, asso. prof. bus. adm., Grad. Sch., 1962-66; vis. prof., Netherlands Sch. Econ., 1961-62; prof. econs., City Coll., City U. of New York since 1966, exec. officer of Grad. Program since 1969.

Source: American Economic Association. Biographical Listings of Members. The American Economic Review, Vol. 59, No. 6, 1969. Handbook of the American Economic Association (Jan., 1970), p. 84.

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Course Description

Economics 124. National Income and its Distribution

Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 10. Assistant Professor Conrad.

Measurement of national income and income inequality; theories of distribution among factors and individuals; factor-shares and inequality in a general equilibrium explanation; inequality and growth in mature and in underdeveloped economies; government redistribution; testing the hypotheses.

Source: Official Register of Harvard University, Vol. LV, No. 24 (November 28, 1958), General Catalogue Issue, 1958-1959, p. 123.

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Course Enrollment

[Economics] 124. National Income and its Distribution. Assistant Professor Conrad. Half course (Fall).

Total, 12: 3 Seniors, 7 Juniors, 1 Sophomores, 1 Other.

Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College, 1958-59. Page 71.

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Economics 124
NATIONAL INCOME AND ITS DISTRIBUTION
Fall, 1958

  1. National Income and Social Accounting.
    1. Introduction; conceptual framework for income accounting.

The definition and measurement of national income. Income inequality, growth, and ethical norms. The production accounts of the firm and the income accounts of the economy.

Readings:

Readings in the Theory of Income Distribution, Kuznets, “National Income,” pp. 3-33.
Ruggles and Ruggles, National Income Accounts and Income Analysis, Chs. 1-4, pp. 3-68.
Hicks, Hart, and Ford, Social Framework of the American Economy, Chs. 16, 17, pp. 209-234.

    1. The construction of the national income accounts.

The problems of valuation and aggregation.

Readings:

Ruggles and Ruggles, Chs. 5-8, pp. 69-186.
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Income, 1954 Edition, pp. 30-60, 160-165.
Hicks, Hart, and Ford, Ch. 15, pp. 198-208.

    1. Two special problems.

Maintaining capital intact.
The product of government.

Readings:

Hicks, Hart, and Ford, Ch. 10 and Appendix Note C, pp. 117-130, 296-300, and Ch. 13, pp. 173-185.

Reference:

Income and Wealth, Series I, ed. E. Lundberg, “Government Product and National Income” (Kuznets), pp. 178-245.

    1. A review of aggregate income trends and analysis.

Readings:

Ruggles and Ruggles, Chs. 10-12, pp. 213-303.
Income and Wealth, Series II, ed. S. Kuznets, “Long-Term Changes in the National Income of the United States Since 1870” (Kuznets), pp. 29-241. This study should be read by the time we reach section 8, below—not later than November 14.

  1. The Theory of Income Distribution.
    1. Introduction; income distribution in economic analysis.

Readings:

Readings, J. M. Clark, “Distribution,” pp. 58-71.
M. A. Copeland, “Social and Economic Determinants of the Distribution of Income,” AER, March 1947, pp. 56-75.

    1. The distribution of the product among the factors of production.

The classical descriptions and Marx.
The marginalists.
Market position and monopoly; the effectiveness of unions.
General equilibrium and employment theories.

Readings:

Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy, Chs. 4, 5, 6, pp. 88-127 (Sraffa edition).
Sweezy, Theory of Capitalist Development, Chs. 4, 5, pp. 56-95.
Hicks, Theory of Wages, Chs. 1-5, pp. 1-111.
The Impact of the Union (ed. Wright), Samuelson, Ch. 15, pp. 312-342, and Friedman, Ch. 10, pp. 204-234.
Readings, R.A. Gordon, “Enterprise, Profits, and the Modern Corporation,” pp. 558-570.
L. C. Reynolds, “Impact of Collective Bargaining on Wage Structure,” Theory of Wage Determination, ed. J. T. Dunlop, pp. 194-221.

Reference:

Dalton, The Inequality of Incomes, esp. Parts II and III.
Douglas, Theory of Wages, esp. Part I and Ch. 8.
Wootton, The Social Foundations of Wage Policy.
Readings in the Theory of Income Distribution.

    1. The distribution of income among individuals.

The possession of skills and property.
Normal curves, Pareto’s Law, and chance.

Readings:

Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume XV, Garvy, “Inequality of Income; Causes and Measurement,” pp. 25-47.
A. D. Roy, “The Distribution of Earnings and of Individual Output,” Econ Journal, Sept. 1950, pp. 489-505.
A. D. Roy, “Some Thoughts on the Distribution of Earnings,” Oxford Econ Papers, 1951, pp. 135-

Reference:

Dalton, Part IV.

    1. The data on functional and personal distribution of income in the U.S.

Readings:

D. G. Johnson, “Functional Distribution of Income in the U.S.,” RES, May 1954, pp. 175-183.
G. H. Moore, “Secular Changes in the Distribution of Income,” AER, Papers and Proceedings, May 1952, pp. 527-544.
E. F. Denison, “Income Types and the Size Distribution,” AER, Papers and Proceedings, May 1954, pp. 254-269.
S. Goldsmith, et al, “Size Distribution of Income since the Mid-Thirties,” RES, February 1954, pp. 1-32.
H. Miller, Income of the American People, Chs. 3, 8, 9, pp. 16-33, 97-123.

References:

U. S. Dept. of Commerce, Income Distribution in the United States, Washington, 1953.
Kuznets, Shares of Upper Income Groups in Income and Savings.
M. J. Bowman, “A Graphical Analysis of Personal Income Distribution in the United States,” Readings, pp. 72-99.

III. [No section title]

    1. Income Inequality and Growth

Income, consumption and investment.
Technical change, capital formation, and income shares.
Income shares and industrial structure.

Readings:

Baumol, Economic Dynamics, Chs. 2, 3, pp. 11-35.
Duesenberry, “Income-Consumption Relations and their Implications,” in Income, Employment, and Public Policy, pp. 54-81.
Kurihara, “Distribution, Employment, and Secular Growth,” in Post-Keynesian Economics, Ch. 10, pp 251-273.
Kuznets, “Economic Growth and Income Inequality,” AER, March 1955, pp. 1-28.
Hicks, Theory of Wages, Ch. 6, pp. 112-135.
E. H. Phelps-Brown, “The Long-Term Movement of Real Wages,” in Theory of Wage Determination, ed. J. T. Dunlop, pp. 48-65.

Reference:

F. A. Hanna, “Contribution of Manufacturing Wages to Regional Differences in Per-Capita Income,” RES, February 1951.

    1. Inflation and Income Inequality.

Readings:

Keynes, “Social Consequences of Changes in the Value of Money,” Essays in Persuasion, pp. 80-104.
Bach and Ando, “Redistributional Effects of Inflation,” RES, February 1957, pp. 1-13.

Reference:

D. Seers, Changes in the Cost of Living and the Distribution of Income, Oxford, 1949.
Joint Committee on the Economic Report, Low-Income Families and Economic Stability, 1949.

    1. The State and the Distribution.

Who pays the taxes?
Redistribution through public expenditures.

Readings:

Conrad, “Redistribution through Government Budgets in the U.S.,” in Income Redistribution and Public Policy, pp. 178-267.
Conrad, “On the Calculation of Tax Burdens,” Economica, November 1955, pp. 342-348.

    1. Conclusion.

Readings:

Kuznets, in Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume XV, pp. 203-213.
Tinbergen, “Welfare Economics and Income Distribution,” AER, Papers and Proceedings, May 1957, pp. 490-503.

Reference:

Lampman, “Recent Thoughts on Egalitarianism,” QJE, May 1957, pp. 234-266.

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003. Box 7. Folder “Economics, 1958-1959 (1 of 2)”.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 124
FINAL EXAMINATION
January 16, 1959

Answer Question 1 and any four others.

  1. (a) or (b):

(a) The Council of Economic Advisers, in their report to the President in January, 1953, stated:

“…the preferable general formula—once wages, prices and profits are in a workable relationship—is for money wages to increase with productivity trends in the whole economy.”

Discuss this suggestion in the light of your reading period assignment, bringing in relevant recent data on the effect of inflation upon factor shares to illustrate your argument.

(b) Describe briefly the law of proportional effect and discuss its application to the income generating process. Be careful to consider the economic relevance of the conditions and results of the statistical model.

  1. Describe the tendencies toward a falling rate of profit in (1) the “classical”, (2) the Marxian, and (3) neo-classical description of capital accumulation. How would the possibility of technological change affect this tendency?
  2. Who are the poor in the post-World War II United States?
  3. You are hired as a technical expert on national income accounts to advise a country in which economists, among other basic resources, are in short supply. In detail, discuss the statistics you will need to answer the following questions: (1) who saves? (2) what has been the trend the savings/income ratio?
  4. “One might thus assume a long swing in the inequality characterizing the secular income structure: widening in the early phases of economic growth when the transition from the pre-industrial to the industrial civilization was most rapid; becoming stabilized for awhile; and then narrowing in the later phases.” Write a concise explanation, in outline form if you like, for the declining inequality suggested here.
  5. How would you reconcile the marginal productivity theory of wages (as presented, say, by Hicks) with the collective bargaining explanation of Lloyd Reynolds or the inertia-displacement theory of Phelps Brown? You may include in your argument any other readings that seem to be relevant.

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Social Sciences. Final Examinations, January 1959. (HUC7000.28, 122 of 284). Papers Printed for Final Examinations. History, Government, Economics, …, Naval Science, Air Science. January, 1959.

Image Source: Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Fellows page for Alfred Haskell Conrad.

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Columbia Suggested Reading Syllabus

Columbia. New Seminar. Outline with readings, Economic Theory and Change. Mitchell and Ginzberg, 1937

 

Wesley Clair Mitchell left voluminous course lecture notes found with his other papers at the Columbia University Archives. On the whole his notes are very neatly written by hand so that any typed pages among his lecture notes immediately catch the attention of the tired eyes of this archival junkie working the boxes. My presumption was that this typed material was probably someone else’s work and the pencilled “Eli Ginzberg” on one of the course outlines provided an obvious lead. Ginzberg received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1934 and held the rank of Lecturer in economics at Columbia at the time of this course. Chapter 2 (“The Education of an Economist”) in his book The Skeptical Economist (1987) provides the necessary back-story for the course materials transcribed for this post.

From Mitchell’s notes to the first session from the Winter session of the course in 1937-38, we learn that a dress rehearsal was held as a seminar during the Spring 1937 course for which we have the following list of participants. Definitely worth noting is that William Vickrey and Anna Jacobson Schwartz participated in that preliminary seminar.

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Handwritten: Economics Seminar. March-May 1937
(Signatures of student participants. Note: “not complete”)

William Vickrey, Ruth Cleve [?], Pauline Arkus, Anna Jacobson [Note: this is Milton Friedman’s collaborator Anna Schwartz], [First name illegible] Louise Boggen, Konrad Bekker, Mark S. Massel, Eileen M. Conly, John I. Griffin, Alan Pope, Bela Gold, Burnham P. Beckwith, Herman Zap, Moore

Source:  Columbia University Archives. Papers of Wesley Clair Mitchell. Box 3, Folder “3-5/37 A”.

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Origin of the seminar

“In 1932-1933, a group of us brought about the first change in the curriculum: We persuaded Mitchell, Clark, and Angell to offer a seminar on economic theory. In the mid-1930s, when I had begun to teach as an assistant in the School of Business, I was instrumental in establishing several further reforms, largely through persuading its dean, Roswell C. McCrea, who also served as chairman of the Economics Department, to do the following: to reduce the number of subjects on which doctoral candidates were examined from seven to six, to invite Milton Friedman to give a course on ‘Neoclassical Economics,’ to have Wesley Mitchell substitute for his lectures on ‘Current Types of Economic Theory’ a new seminar on ‘Economic Theory and Economic Change,’ in which I would serve as his assistant. Furthermore, McCrea obtained the consent of the Committee on Instruction in the School of Business for me to offer a new course on ‘Economics and Group Behavior,’ which was cross-listed in the Department of Economics’ offerings. This was probably the first course in what later became known as ‘human resources.’”

 

Source: Eli Ginzberg, The Skeptical Economist (Westview Press, 1987), p. 16.

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Secular and Structural Changes in a Modern Economy
From Mitchell’s handwritten notes for the first meeting
Sept. 28, 1937

An experimental course. 1st time given, aside from a brief trial run in seminar last spring.
Title not felicitous: perhaps it will prove not very accurate. Explanation of view[?] called for.

Past 2 generations have seen vigorous development of three or four different approaches to study of economic behavior.

Economic theory of several types ranging from mathematical economics on one flank to institutional economics on other flank.

Economic history of recent and more remote past

Economic statistics have multiplied in the leading commercial nations and technique of using them has been improved.

Relation of these approaches to one another

Difficult to find investigation in which one approach only is used.

Economic theorist seldom disregards wholly the historical setting of his problem, or quantitative importance of its components. Whether they recognize it or not, these factors count in their thinking.

Economic historians and statisticians cannot dispense wholly with qualitative analysis.

Their selection and arrangement of materials imply classification: they take materials that are pertinent and pass on others that are not. What is pertinent in their judgment is decided whether they realize it or not, by the organization of their ideas.

Can find many investigations in which an attempt is made to use all three approaches

Schmoller’s Allgemeine Vokswirtschaftslehre, Webbs’ History of British T. U.‘s and Industrial Democracy.Marshall’s Industry and Trade. Cassel’s Social Economics. Keynes‘ Theory of Money, Pigou’s Industrial Fluctuations, Sombart’s Moderne Kapitalismus. A brilliant older example Marx’s Capital; indeed Wealth of Nations except that Adam Smith had a poor opinion of ‘political arithmetic’.

 

But, to a large extent, the theoretical, historical, and statistical approaches have been developed by three groups of workers

Each of whom is especially adept in one approach and makes incidental rather than systematic and thorough use of the other approaches

And there are

Economic theorists
Economic historians
Economic statisticians

who seem not to realize the extent to which their thinking is influenced by elements derived from the other approaches.

In general we cannot claim that the three approaches have been perfectly blended

Schmoller a particularly good example because he tried as hard to use all three. He knew certain phases of economic history well: but not all the phases on which he touched. He was a slovenly theorist and a gullible statistician.

Hence one of the great tasks before the generation of economists to whom members of this class belong is to utilize the knowledge of economic processes provided by the 3 approaches more effectively than their predecessors have done.

Primary aim of the course is to aid in that effort.

Method is to take up certain economic processes that have been studied for both the theoretical angles and for the historical or statistical angles or for both and to inquire whether the realistic approaches call for modification of the theoretical analyses: quite as much

Whether the theoretical approach calls for modification of the realistic investigations.

How much we can get out of this experiment for the improvement of our own investigations remains to be seen.

Will depend not only upon the industry with which we are ready to devote to study of the materials assigned but also upon the ability to think we are able to develop.

 

Mode of conducting course

Dr. G. and I will select problems, at least at beginning, and assign readings. Members of class will present reports to the class Written or oral. Discussion in class.

As work goes on we may well turn up problems of which Dr. Ginzberg and I have not thought in advance.

Interest of the meetings and value of the work are necessarily conditioned by the clarity of the reports made by the members of the group.

Please try hard to get your notes[?] well organized and lucidly presented. So well presented that other members who listen once only can understand and expect questions of others as you present reports.

So much for the general aims of the course and how it will be conducted. Begin work with an attempt to characterize broadly the conceptions of economic change that are held by investigators.

Or rather, what types of movements occur in economic life.

 

1st assignment

Let each member of class consult one or more of the statistical treatises that deal with time-series analysis to find out what types of movements are recognized.

What is basis of classification used? In what are these movements all alike? In what do the types differ? Are all of these types recognized by economic theory? For what types do economic theorists offer explanations? What relation if any do the movements of the statisticians bear to the ‘disturbing circumstances’ of economic theory and to the movements by which economic equilibrium is restored after a disturbance, and maintained in the absence of further disturbances (equilibrating movements)? Are the criteria used by economic statisticians in classifying movement like those used by time-series analysts? Can we expect inductive testing of economic laws?

Source:  Columbia University Archives. Papers of Wesley Clair Mitchell. Box 3, Folder “9/28/37 A”.

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Handwritten draft of course announcement

December 19, 1936
Announced for 1936-37

Cumulative Changes in Economic Processes

A critical survey of realistic studies of population growth, natural resources, occupations, capacity to produce, standards of living, national income and its distribution, ownership of property, business organization and methods, labor conditions, capital accumulation, the role played by government in economic affairs, and national planning, accompanied by study of the relations of the findings to economic theory.

Readings, reports and class discussions. Limited to twenty students. Admission by permission of the instructor.

2 hours a week, both semesters.
4-6 Thursdays.

Source:  Columbia University Archives. Papers of Wesley Clair Mitchell. Box 3, Folder “12/19/36 A”.

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Course Announcement
1937-38

Economics 201-202—Secular and structural changes in a modern economy.  3 points each session. Professor Mitchell with the assistance of Dr. Ginzberg.

Tu., 4:10-6. 102 Low.

The theoretical, institutional, historical, and statistical approaches to the study of economic changes. Critical survey of investigations into recent changes in important factors. Relations of the findings to current economic theory.
Readings, reports, and class discussions.
Admission only with permission of the instructor.

Source: Columbia University. Bulletin of Information (July 23, 1938). Courses offered by the Faculty of Political Science for the Winter and Spring Sessions, 1937-1938, p. 30.

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Course Announcement
1938-39

Economics 201-202—Economic changes and economic theory.  3 points each session. Professor Mitchell assisted by Dr. Ginzberg.

Tu., 4:10-6. 502 Business.

The theoretical, institutional, historical, and statistical approaches to the study of economic changes. Critical survey of investigations into recent changes in important factors. Relations of the findings to current economic theory. Readings, reports, and class discussions.

Admission only with permission of the instructor.

Source: Columbia University. Bulletin of Information (July 23, 1938). Courses offered by the Faculty of Political Science for the Winter and Spring Sessions, 1938-1939, p. 31.

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Jan. 14, 1937

TENTATIVE OUTLINE FOR COURSE ON CUMULATIVE CHANGES IN ECONOMIC PROCESSES

Introduction: The theoretical, the historical, and the statistical approaches to the study of Economic Changes.

  1. The concepts of economic ‘statics’ and economic ‘dynamics’ in the work of J. S. Mill, Marx, J. B. Clark, Alfred Marshall, Gustav Cassel.
    What ‘dynamic’ problems are treated by these writers? How far does the treatment build upon ‘static’ theory?
    Theoretical treatment of cumulative changes in institutions by Marx, Veblen and Commons.
  2. Historical accounts of economic changes.
    What ‘explanations’ are given of significant changes by such writers as Ashley, Schmoller, the Webbs, Sombart, Clapham?
  3. Time-series analysis
    Types of changes commonly recognized: seasonal variations, random perturbations, cyclical fluctuations, secular trends.
    The problem of ‘long cycles’. Kondratieff, Simiand, Kuznets, Burns.
    The problem of structural changes.
    What types of these changes have been explained theoretically?
    What relations have these explanations to economic theory at large?
    What relations exist between secular, cyclical, random, seasonal and structural changes?
  4. Relations among the three approaches
    The injunction to combine causal analysis with statistical description.
    Dangers of statistical work not guided by theoretical concepts.
    Dangers of theoretical speculation not checked by statistical observation
    Difficulties in fusing the two approaches
    Causal analysis of problems in which many variables are interrelated, and in which effects become causes in a process of cumulative change
    The theoretical uses of history.
    The historical applications of theory.
    Statistics and history.

Classification of investigations available for the study of economic changes

  1. Studies of recognized types of economic changes
    The abundant literature upon business cycles
    A few studies of seasonal variations
    A few studies of secular trends and of long cycles
    No systematic literature upon random perturbations; but many casual references in books on business cycles.
    Many studies of structural changes, particularly those produced by legislations—for example, the Independent Treasury system, tariff acts, etc. Also numberless discussions under next heading.
  2. Studies of changes in single economic factors
    A vast literature is available upon such subjects as
    Growth of population and its geographical distribution
    Developments of the arts of production: histories of industries
    Natural resources of different districts; their exploitation; problems of conservation
    Changes in business organization: rise of corporations, different forms of corporate organization, banking systems; histories of particular business enterprises, and so on.
    Organization of labor
    Shifting importance of agriculture, transportation, manufactures, trade, finance in the national economy.
    Changes in economic relations among nations:: commercial policies, international investments, shifts from debtor to creditor position.
    Changes in the system of prices: their relations to monetary laws and practices; the relative importance of competitive versus regulated prices, private versus public regulation; the degree of flexibility in prices
    Changes in standards of living
  3. Economic changes during certain periods
    Most of the books on economic history might be listed here, in so far as they do not belong under previous heading.
    Also a few studies primarily statistical in character, such as
    Recent Economic changes
    Recent Social Trends
    Social England—Booth’s survey and the recent many-volume study.
    Mills’ Economic Tendencies in the U.S.
  4. Work to be undertaken by the members of the course
    To read critically and report upon significant studies of recent economic changes.
    Avoid so far as feasible the subjects that are treated elaborately in other courses, for example money and banking, labor problems, business cycles, public utilities.
    Stress the effort to grasp the inter-relations among the changes studied.
    In each case consider in how far the changes are or can be ‘explained’, and what relation these explanations have or should have to economic ‘theory’.

Among the books to be consider for assignment the following are possibilities:

W. S. Thompson and P. K. Whelfton, Population Trends in the U.S. N.Y. 1933
R. D. McKenzie, The Metropolitan Community, N.Y., 1933
Carter Goodrich and others, Migration and Economic Opportunity, Philadelphia, 1936
Wyand, Economics of Consumption, N.Y., 1937
C. C. Chapman, Development of American Business and Banking Thought, 1913-1936. New York, 1937
Twentieth Century Fund, Big Business: Its Growth and its Place. N.Y., 1937
A. A. Berle and G. C. Means, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, N.Y., 1932
A. R. Burns, The Decline of Competition, N.Y., 1936
R. C. Epstein, Industrial Profits in the U.S., N.Y., 1934
Harry Jerome, Mechanization in Industry, N.Y., 1934
F. C. Mills, Prices in Recession and Recovery, N.Y., 1936
‘The Brookings Study’, Washington, 1934 and 1935

America’s Capacity to Produce
America’s Capacity to Consume
The Formation of Capital
Income and Economic Progress

H. G. Moulton and Associates, The American Transportation Problem, Washington, 1933
National Resources Board, Report December 1, 1934, Washington 1934.
W. I. King, The National Income and Its Purchasing Power, N.Y., 1930
(S. Kuznets), National Income, 1929-32, Washington, 1934
Our Natural Resources and their Conservation, A symposium edited by A. E. Parkins and J.R. Whitaker. N.Y., John Wiley & Sons, 1936
A. F. Burns, Production Trends in the U.S. Since 1870. N.Y. 1934. See review by F. A. Fetter JPE Feb. 1937
W. Sombart, Hochkapitalismus
W. H. Lough, High-Level Consumption, N.Y., 1935
W. V. Bingham. Aptitudes and Aptitude Testing, N.Y., 1937.

Source:  Columbia University Archives. Papers of Wesley Clair Mitchell. Box 3, Folder “1/14/37 A”.

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[Handwritten note at top of page: “Eli Ginzberg Jan 18 1937”]

CUMULATIVE CHANGES IN A MODERN ECONOMY

Introduction

  1. The Method of the Classicists

Ricardo—Chapter I ff.
Marshall—Book V

Supplementary:

Knight—Introduction to Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit—2d ed.
Ibid—The Ethics of Competition and Other Essays
Robbins—Nature and Significance of Economic Science
Clark, J. M. Preface to Social Economics (the essay on “Statics and Dynamics”)
Moore, H.L.—
Hotelling, H.—

  1. Historical-Statistical Approach

(a) Case study of: Industrial Revolution

Toynbee
Hammonds
Webbs
Lipson
Clapham

Supplementary: see

Mantoux—
Nef—in Economic History Review.
Reconstructions, in Economic History Review

(b) Case study of: Profits and Wages in the United States

    1. Profits

Epstein
Patten
Mills

Supplementary:

Knight—Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences—article on Profits
Knight—Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences—article on Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit
Reports of the S.E.C.
Senate Committee on Foreign Bonds

    1. Wages

Douglas—Recent Economic Changes
Wolman, L.—R.E.C. and 3 Bulletins Bureau of Labor Statistics

Supplementary:

Douglas—Theory of Wages
Beveridge—Unemployment
Clay, H.—Essays in Industrial Relations

  1. Institutional-Theoretical

Marx—Communist Manifesto
Ibid.—Capital—vol. I
Veblen—Theory of Business Enterprise
Mitchell—Business Cycles
Clark, J.M.—Economics of Overhead Costs

Supplementary:

Souter-Prolegomena to Relativity Economics
Hamilton—Encyclopedia of the Social sciences Article on “Competition”
Knight—Ethics of Competition, etc.
Clark, J. M.—Preface to Social Economics
American Economic Association—Round Tables

  1. Conclusion: Methodology

Cohen—Reason and Nature
Weber, Max—Wissenschaftslehre
Whitehead—Adventure in Ideas
Simkhovitch—Approaches
Sombart—Drei Nationalökomien
Carnap—Unity of Science
MacIver—Harvard Lecture

 

PART I—Cumulative Changes in Economic Institutions

(General aim to study changes in degree and kind in the institutional setting explicit and implicit in neo-classicists; to gauge interrelations in these changes).

  1. The Large Corporation

Berle and Means—The Modern Corporation
Twentieth Century Fund: Big Business
A. R. Burns—Decline of Competition

Supplementary:

Commons—Legal Foundations of Capitalism
Holmes, O. W.—Representative Opinion
Brandeis, L.—Social and Economic Views
Hamilton, W.—Industries affected with the Public Interest
Clark, J. M.—Social Control of Business
Handler—Trade Regulation

  1. The Credit System

Annual Reports of Federal Reserve Board
Moulton—The Formation of Capital
Brookings—The Recovery of Business
Hardy—Credit Policies of the F. R. S.
Keynes—The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.
Angell—The Behavior of Money
Reports of Senate Sub-committee on Banking
Reports of Senate Committee on S. E. C.
Reports of Senate Committee on Foreign Bonds
Clark, J. M.—Economic of Planning Public Works
Chapman, C. C.—American Business and Banking Thought
Currie, L.—The Supply of Money

Supplementary:

Articles in Economic Journal, Q.J.E., S.[sic, J.?] of P. E.

  1. The Problem of Consumption

(a) Numbers

Thompson and Whelfton—Population Trend
McKenzie—Metropolitan Community
Goodrich—Migration and Economic Opportunity
Recent Social Trends

(b) Psychology

Veblen—The Theory of the Leisure Class
Hearings on Pure Foods Drug Act
Reports of Federal Trade Commission
Bulletins of Consumers Research
Schlink—
Chase, Stuart—

(c) Economics

Brookings—America’s Capacity to Consumer
Brookings—Income and Economic Progress
Wyand—Economics of Consumption
Recent Social Trends
Seligman—Installment Selling
Keynes—Appendix to General Theory

 

PART II—Cumulative Changes in the Short-Run

(Contrast with equilibrium approach of neo-classicists).

Case Study: Post-War Expansion

  1. The automobile: building and new industries

(a) Source of capital
(b) Entrepreneurs’ expectations
(c) Exploitation of demand

  1. Secondary Results: Structural Changes

(a) Relocation of Industry
(b) Urbanization—suburbs
(c) Standard of living—mores—instalment credit
(d) Incidence of Transportation
(e) Complex of Industry—of steel, glass, gasoline

Literature

Recent Economic Changes
Recent Social Trends
Goodrich et al—
Epstein, R.—Automobile Industry
Facts and Figures—Automobile Industry-1919 ff.
Clark, J. M.—Strategic Factors in Business Cycles
Warburton, C.—In Mitchell volume
Moulton et al—The American Transportation Problem
National Resources Board—Report 12/1/34
Burns, A. F.—Production Trends
Trade Journals—Steel, distribution, etc.
Annalist

PART III: The Interrelations of Economic Institutions and Market Phenomena

How do the existing legal, banking, and distributive institutions help to condition—and how are they conditioned by the following?

1. Capital accumulation
2. Profitability of industry
3. National income—wages—agriculture
4. Behavior of prices and costs

Literature

Mills—Economic Tendencies
Mills—Prices in Recession and Recovery
King—National Income and its Purchasing Power
Kuznets, S.—National Income. 1929-32
Mitchell—Business Cycles
Clark, J. M.—Strategic Factors in Business Cycles
Keynes, J. M.—General Theory of Employment
Brookings—Recovery of Business
Brookings—N. R. A.

 

Source:  Columbia University Archives. Papers of Wesley Clair Mitchell. Box 3, Folder “1/18/37 A”.

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OUTLINE
Secular and Structural Changes in a Modern Economy

[Handwritten: Eli Ginzberg]

February 23, 1937

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OUTLINE
Secular and Structural Changes in a Modern Economy.

INTRODUCTION: The theoretical, the historical, the institutional, and the statistical approaches to the study of economic changes.

  1. “Statics and Dynamics” in the works of:
    J. S. Mill, J. B. Clark, Alfred Marshall, Gustav Cassel.
  2. “Explanation” of economic changes by:
    Ashley, Schmoller, Webbs, Sombart, Clapham
  3. Cumulative changes in institutions:
    Marx, Veblen, Commons.
  4. Time-Series Analysis: seasonal variations, cyclical fluctuations, secular trends and random perturbations. “Long cycles”:
    Kondratieff, Simiand, Kuznets, Burns.

Summary: The limitations of isolated techniques and the difficulties of fusion

  1. Theory and statistics; history and theory; statistics and theory
  2. Multiple variables in a process of cumulative change.

*  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *

Secular changes in the industrial unit, the financial system, the organization of labor, and the ideology of the public during the periods:

1870-1890
1890-1914
1914-1937

 

  1. The Industrial Unit: The changing pattern of competition
    1. Economic aspects
      1. Adjustment to technology and to a national market
      2. Location of plant and transportation
      3. Integration: to raw materials; to distribution; to finance
    2. Law and Social Control
      1. Trademarks and Patents
      2. Governmental Regulation: License, taxes, etc.
      3. Trade Associations
      4. Management vs. Ownership

*Emphasis to be placed upon changing relative positions of the industrial unit to the total economy; upon the influence of size to competitive behavior; upon economic implications of individual vs. corporate forms.

  1. Financial System—The rôle of money in a modern economy.
    1. The Changing Structure of Banking
      1. Loans and investments
      2. Active money
    2. The Problems of Debt and Liquidity
      1. Private vs. Public Debt
      2. Collateral for private debt
      3. Insurance—private and public
    3. Implications: Economic and Social
      1. Economic: The interrelations of interest rates, savings, and the formation of capital.
      2. Social: The political control over the creation of money and the use of this control for the eradication of the business cycle.
  1. Labor: not solely a commodity
    1. Unionization
      1. Members
      2. Objectives
      3. Potential threats and consequences
    2. Supply
      1. Changes in requirements of skill
      2. The relative shrinkage in agriculture
      3. The additions from women of the middle class
      4. Mobility
    3. Rôle of the Government
      1. Free Services
      2. Enforcement of minimum standards
      3. Relief payments and work creation
      4. Re Bargaining between Labor and Capital

*Emphasis: Implication of these changes for

    1. Rate of wages
    2. Total wages—cf. monopoly analysis
    3. Class-struggle analysis
  1. The Changing Ideology: The influence of money making upon the attitudes of people—
    Upon their behavior in

    1. Spending: price vs. quality; advertising; women as buyers
    2. Accumulating: liquid vs. fixed assets; speculation; insurance; goods vs. family
    3. Playing: The esoteric vs. the stable; Wanderlust; the shift from church and home to club and movie.
    4. Occupational adjustment: sensitivity to monetary stimuli; civil service; money and the arts.

Conclusions: An approach to isolating and treating the strategi9c factors in a dynamic economy—

    1. The emergence of profitability
    2. The cumulative process and the breakdown
    3. The absorption of technological developments and the tendency towards retardation of growth.
    4. The closely allied patterns of change; their interaction with the economic. 1. Political/2. Legal/3. Ideological

 

Source:  Columbia University Archives. Papers of Wesley Clair Mitchell. Box 3, Folder “2/23/37 A”.

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[Pencil: “April 1937”]

SECULAR AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES
IN A
MODERN ECONOMY

OUTLINE

    1. The Study of Economic Change
    2. Population
    3. Migration and Location
    4. The Business Unit
    5. Psychology and Social Classes
    6. Technology
    7. The Legal Framework
    8. Government
    9. Dynamics of the Market
    10. Cumulative Factors

 

I

THE STUDY OF ECONOMIC CHANGE

  1. Introduction
  2. The Classicists and the Institutionalists

*Preface to First and 8th editions of Marshall’s Principles and Bk. V—Chapter XV
*Marx—Communist Manifesto—Part I

    1. The Classicists

J. S. Mill—Principles of Political Economy—Bk IV
J. B. Clark—Essentials of Economic Theory—Preface, Chapters XII, XIII, XIV, XV, and XXX
Marshall—Principles—Bk I—Chap. III; Bk V—Chaps. I, II, III, V, and XV
Cassel—Social Economy—Bk I, Chaps. I #5,6; Bk. IV

    1. The Institutionalists

Marx—Communist Manifesto—Part I
Veblen—Business Enterprise—Chpas. II, VII, IX, X
Commons—Legal Foundations of Capitalism—Chapters I, II, III, VII, IX, vi

  1. The Historians and the Statisticians

*Heckscher, Eli—“Aspects of Economic History” in Essays in Honor of Gustav Cassel
*Mitchell—“Business Cycles”—Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

    1. The Historians

Webbs—History of Trade Unionism—Chapters II, III
Clapham—Economic History of Modern Britain—Vol I, Chapter XIV
Sombart—Der Moderne Kapitalismus—Vol. III, Part I—Chapters 22-25

    1. The Statisticians

Simiand—La Crise Mondiale—pages 1-14; pages 114-35
Burns, A. F.—Production Trends—Foreword; Chapters III;ii, iii; IV: iv; V:v, vi.
Mitchell—“Business Cycles”—Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Kuznets—Seasonal Variations in Industry and Trade—Chapter I, Concluding Notes—pp. 355 ff.

  1. Theory, History, and Statistics
    *J. M. Clark—“Statics and Dynamics” in Preface to Social Economy
    *F. H. Knight—New Introduction to Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit
    *W. C. Mitchell—“Quantitative Measurement” in Backward Art of Spending Money and Other Essays
    1. Cohen and Nagel—Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method Bk II: Chaps. X, XI, XVI, XVII, XIX sec. 3
    2. Robbins—Nature and Significance of Economic Science. Chapters II 4,5; III 4,5; IV; VI 5,6
    3. J. M. Clark—“Socializing Theoretical Economics” in Preface to Social Economics

 

II

POPULATION

  1. The Data, Method, and Deductions about population in economic theory
    *Malthus—Population—Chapters I, II
    *Marshall—Bk IV, Chapters IV, V

    1. Ricardo—Principles II, V, XXXII
    2. J. S. Mill—Principles—Chapter X, 2, 3
    3. Pigou—Economics of Welfare—Part I, chapters IX, X
  2. The Contemporary Data, Methods, Deductions as to Trends
    *“Population”—Encyclopedia of Social Sciences

    1. Thompson and Whelpton—Population Trends in U. S.—Chapters I: pp. 2267;257-61;288-91; IX, X, and XI
    2. Carr-Saunders—World Population (1936)—Chapters I, II, XVI, XVII, XXII, Note on Overpopulation
    3. Kucyznski—Births and Death, Vol I. Chaps. I, II, III, IV; II. Chaps. I, VI
  3. The Economic Implications of the Population Problem
    *Myrdal—“Industrialization and Population” in Essays in Honor of Gustav Cassel

    1. On Unemployment
      Beveridge—Unemployment—Chapter XVII
    2. On Imperialism
      W. S. Thompson—Danger Spots in World Politics—Chapters X, XII, XIII, XIV
    3. On Consumption
      Lynd—Middletown—Chapters V, XI
      J. M. Keynes. Economic Consequences of a Declining Population. Eugenics Review, April 1937, vol. XXIX, 13-17.

 

III

MIGRATION AND LOCATION OF PEOPLE AND INDUSTRY

*Marshall—Principles—pp. 199-203, Book IV—Chapter X, Appendix A-#13
*Weber, A.—Theory of Location of Industries

Editor’s Introduction
Author’s Introduction
Chapters I, VII

*Semple—American History, its Geographic Conditions—Chapters XV, XVI, XVII

    1. Goodrich—Migration and Economic Opportunity—Introduction: Chapters I, VI, VII, IX, XII
    2. Mackenzie—The Metropolitan Community—Chapters I, III, V, VI, XII, XVII, XXIII

 

IV

THE BUSINESS UNIT

*Marshall—Principles—Bk IV—Chapter XII
*Twentieth Century Fund—Big Business—Summary

    1. Distribution of the Working Population

The National Income in the United States (1929-35). Department of Commerce

    1. The Problem of Control: Private

Berle and Means—Modern Corporation and Private Property, Bks I, VI
Twentieth Century Fund—Big Business Summary, Chaps. I, VIII
Laidler—Concentration of Control in American Industry, Parts I, VI.

    1. The Problem of Control: Public

Jones and Bingham—Principles of Public Utilities—Chapters I, II, and XII
Moulton Associates—American Transportation Problem—Report of Committee—Chapters I, II, XII, XXI, XXIV, XXV, XXX, XXXI

    1. Planning

Parkins and Whitaker—Our Natural Resources and their Concentration—Chapters I, II, IX, X, XI, XVI, XVIII
National Resources Board—1934—Part I—Sec. I, Sec. V.

 

V

PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL CLASSES

*Marshall—Principles—Bk I—Chapter II
*Weber—General Economic History—Chapter XXX

    1. The Spirit of the Capitalist

M. Weber—The Protestant Ethic—Foreword, Introduction, Chapters II, III, V

    1. Modern Psychology and Aggression

Abrahams, K.—Selected Essays on Psycho-Analysis—Chapters XXIII, XXIV, XXV
Horney, K.—The Neurotic Personality of Our Times—Chapters [blank]
Mead, M.—Competition and Cooperation in Primitive Societies. Interpretive Statement.

    1. The American Scene

Veblen—Absentee Ownership—chapters VI, VII I, ii, iii
Parker—The Casual Laborer and Other Essays—Recent Social Trends—Chapter VIII
Taussig and Joslyn—American Business Leaders—Chapters X, XI, XVI, XVII, XIX, XX

 

VI

TECHNOLOGY

*Marshall—Principles—Bk IV—Chapter IX
*Veblen—Theory of Business Enterprise—Chapter IX

    1. America’s Capacity to Produce—Introduction, Chapters VI, XIV, XV, XVI, XIX, XX

Jerome—Mechanization in Industry—Introduction, Summary, Chapters III, IV

    1. –Recent Social Trends—Volume I—Chapter III

Weintraub and Posner—Technological Tendencies and their Social Implications
Jerome—Mechanization—Chapters IX, X

 

VII

THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK

*J. S. Mill—Principles of Political Economy—Bk II—Chapter II
*Veblen—Theory of Business Enterprise—Chapter VIII

    1. Commons—Legal Foundations of Capitalism. Chaps. I, II, III, VII, IX
    2. Handler—Trade Regulation, Chapters I, II
    3. Bonbright—The Valuation of Property—Chapters I, II, III, IV, V, XXX, XXXII

 

VIII

THE GOVERNMENT

*J. S. Mill—Principles of Political Economy—Bk V—Chapter XI
*H. Laski—The State—Chapter IV

    1. Re Taxes

Shoup—Facing the Tax Burden—Chaps 2, 3, 6, 7, 8
Recent Social Trends—Volume II—Chapters XXV, XXVI

    1. Re Banking

Willis—Central Banking—Part I, Chapters XVI, XVII, XVIII, XXVI
Hardy—Credit Policies of the Federal Reserve System—Part I

    1. Re Labor

Commons and Associates—History of Labor in the U.S.

Volume III, Section I, Chapters XI, XII, Labor legislation
Volume IV, Chapters I, II, XVI, XXXII, XXXVIII, XLIV, XLV

Epstein—Insecurity—Parts I, X, XI

 

IX

DYNAMICS OF THE MARKET

*Marshall—Principles—Book V
*J. M. Clark—Economics of Overhead Costs—Chapters XXIII, XXIV

    1. Production: 1922-36

Mills—Economic Tendencies—Chapters VI, X

    1. Prices: 1922-36

Mills—Economic Tendencies—Chapter VII
Prices in Recession and Recovery—Chapters I, III, V, VI, IX

    1. Wages: 1922-36

Douglas—Real Wages in the United States—Chapters XXII, XXVI, XXX, XXXI
Recent Economic Changes—Volume II—Chapter VI
Wolman—N.B.E.R. Bulletins #46, 54, 63

    1. Profits: 1922-36

Epstein—Industrial Profits in the United States—Introduction, Book I, Book IV

    1. Money: 1922-36

Currie—The Supply and Control of Money in the United States—Chapter III
Fed. Res. Board—Annual Reports. 1934, 1935, 1936

 

X

CUMULATIVE FACTORS

*Marshall—Principles—Book VI—Chapters XI, XII, XIII
*J. M. Clark—Strategic Factors in Business Cycles—Parts I and VI

    1. The War, Changing Attitudes, and the Economy
    2. The Automobile and the Economy
    3. The Creation and Destruction of Bank Deposits and the Economy

Source:  Columbia University Archives. Papers of Wesley Clair Mitchell. Box 3, Folder “4/?/37 A”.

Image Source: From the cover of Eli Ginzberg’s book The Eye of Illusion (Transactions Publishers, 1993).

 

 

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Johns Hopkins/Wharton. Linked Reading List for History and Theory of Money. Sherwood, 1891-92

 

 

Sidney Sherwood, 1860-1901 received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1891 where he was to become the successor of Richard T. Ely as head of the department of Political Economy.

This post includes two memorials that provide a bit of biographical background followed by a rich, linked course of readings that were published in an appendix to the University Extension lecture material for Sherwood’s course, The History and Theory of Money, during the year he taught at the Wharton School of Finance and Economy (1891-92). 

The next post will provide the course outline with the specific reading assignments for Sherwood’s twelve lectures.

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SIDNEY SHERWOOD.

Sidney Sherwood, Associate Professor of Economics in the Johns Hopkins University, died after a brief illness at Ballston, New York, August 5,1901. While spending a part of his vacation on a farm he accidentally cut his right hand. Blood poisoning ensued which led to fatal results in spite of the best medical aid. He was buried at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, where for many years he maintained a summer home.

Dr. Sherwood was born at Ballston, May 28, 1860. He graduated from Princeton College in 1879, then entered Columbia University, where he studied law. He afterwards practiced that profession in New York City, but having become interested in economic questions he entered the Johns Hopkins University in 1888 in order to pursue advanced studies under Professors Ely and Adams. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1891 and was called at once to the University of Pennsylvania as Instructor in Economics. In 1892, Dr. Sherwood returned to Baltimore, having been appointed Associate in Economics; in 1895, he was made Associate Professor.

At a meeting of the Board of University Studies a committee was appointed to draft appropriate resolutions. Their report is as follows:

“The Board of University Studies is compelled with sorrow to record the death of Associate Professor Sidney Sherwood, who as student and teacher, was connected with this University for more than twelve years.

“During all this period Dr. Sherwood grew steadily in the esteem and affection of his colleagues. Beneath a modest demeanor he revealed most amiable as well as most substantial qualities. As a writer he gave evidence of solid learning and sound judgment. As a teacher and counsellor of students in this University his services were of great value and his absence will be deeply felt.

“The members of the Board desire to extend to Mrs. Sherwood and her family their heartfelt sympathy in this bereavement.”

Source: Johns Hopkins University. University Circulars. (Vol. XXI. No. 154, December 1901) p. 9.

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SIDNEY SHERWOOD: A MUCH LOVED PROFESSOR OF OTHER DAYS
BY BERNARD C. STEINER, PH.D. 1891

ABOUT a month after the opening of the University year of 1888, there came into the Historical Seminary, a quiet, rather reserved man, somewhat older and considerably more experienced than the rest of the graduate students. He chose for his subjects, history, political economy, and English, and wrote, as his dissertation, a “History of the University of the State of New York.” In 1891, he took the degree of Ph.D. — such is the skeleton of the University life of Sidney Sherwood. To those who were his fellow-students, the mention of his name recalls a personality of gentle force, an accurate and careful scholarship, a faithful friend, who could be relied upon in any emergency. In the large third story room, known as the Bluntschli Library, the historical students came into such close contact that they knew each other thoroughly and all came to esteem Sherwood highly. In a little quiz class of a few men who took their degree together, he showed his thoughtful studiousness, even more than in the larger seminary, and also displayed his sane and ripe judgment.

He was born on May 28, 1860, at Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, N. Y., his parents being Thomas Burr and Mary Frances (Beattie) Sherwood. He prepared for College at Mr. Buckley’s private school in his native town, having the reputation of being the brightest boy that the master had ever taught. In the fall of 1875, he entered the College of New Jersey, as Princeton University was then called.

After graduating from Princeton in the well-known class of ’79, with Woodrow Wilson and other prominent men, to use his own words, written to his class secretary in 1894, he “tackled life, in the capacity of professor of Latin, Greek, mathematics, French, and German in the Newton Collegiate Institute of Newton. N. J. I likewise officiated as coach in football. The idea of a college course, as giving general culture, was certainly realized in the Princeton curriculum of that period, otherwise I never should have been fitted for that broad chair.” After a year of teaching, he went to Europe and spent two years, to quote him again, “in Great Britain and Western Europe, trying to get more general culture.” When he returned to the United States, he served a few months as a reporter upon the New York Tribune, “reading law on the sly.” Then the death of his father, in February, 1883, made it necessary for him to spend a year on the paternal farm in Saratoga County, during which time he read law at Ballston Spa. In the autumn of 1884, he entered the Columbia Law School; but, after a year of study there, he left the school and entered the office of Abner C. Thomas, LL.D., with whom he formed a partnership, when admitted to the bar in February, 1886 and for whom he did much of the hard research work connected with the preparation of the well-known and useful work known as Thomas on Mortgages. He continued this connection, until he gave up the practice of law and came to Baltimore. This change of purpose came through the mayoralty campaign, in which Henry George was one of the candidates, in which campaign Sherwood was much interested. He found that it “opened up a new field of study and work — the field of social philosophy and social progress. An academic career, the study and teaching of the forces and mechanism of human progress became henceforth my chief aim.” He said “I belong to the party of progress” and his mind in an unusual manner faced the future, while preserving conservative modes of thinking.

Few men ever held opinions more firmly, or with less bigotry than Sherwood, nor did he ever confuse the essential principles, which must be held firmly, with the unessential ones, which may be changed. So he was a moderate Republican and a Presbyterian, but he was a thoroughly convinced patriot and Christian.

Shortly after leaving the University, on September 3, 1891, he married Miss Mary A. Beattie of Cornwall, N. Y.

In a sketch such as this, the delightful home life of Sherwood’s family may not be more than mentioned and yet all who knew him know also that no sketch of him should be written without some such mention. The loving devotion of that true woman, who linked her fortunes with his and the ingenuous charm of the children made a fine background to the picture, and in that home, he found refreshment and strength. Four daughters and a son came into the family — the last too late, however, to remember his father, for he was born only a few months before the end.

In the autumn of 1891 he began teaching in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, as instructor in finance. While in this position, he delivered a course of lectures on the “History and Theory of Money,” which was published in 1893. In 1892, Professor Richard T. Ely was called from the Johns Hopkins to the University of Wisconsin and Sherwood became his successor in Baltimore. He carried on the work of the economic department until his death, growing yearly in power and influence, giving faithful and patient attention to each of his students, and showing equal faithfulness in the directorship of such institutions in Baltimore as he found time to enter. His thought ripened slowly and his great work on finance was ever in preparation. One summer towards the close of his life, he forewent the pleasure of staying with his family and crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Germany to collect material there, but the book remained unwritten to the end. His History of the University of the State of New York published in 1893, widened to an History of Higher Education in New York State, a bulky volume, printed by the United States Bureau of Education in 1900 as part of a series, in the preparation of which Professor Adams had enlisted the services of a number of Hopkins men.

With fearful suddenness came the interruption of the useful work he was doing. Hale and strong, in the mellow maturity of his powers, he went into the garden of his summer home one day to prune some bushes. A scratch must have conveyed some vegetable poison into his veins, blood poisoning followed, and, after a very few days’ illness, he died “during a beautiful golden sunset” on August 5, 1901. The poignancy of the grief at the loss of a friend mingled in the minds of those who knew him, with the keen regret that the University was deprived of a scholar whose teaching by his example, what should be the attitude of a professor, was as important as the principles of political economy which he laid down in his lectures. The influence of such a man is pervasive and permanent and one of the privileges which lengthening years bring to the University is that it can look back upon the unselfish and complete service of such men as Sidney Sherwood.

Source: The Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine. Vol. 5, No. 1 (November, 1916) pp. 32-35.

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READINGS FOR THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF MONEY

USEFUL BOOKS OF REFERENCE.

The literature of Money is so vast that a wise selection of a few books is almost impossible. The list here given is meant to contain books which are easily accessible, and which will tempt to further study after the lectures are finished.

Two books mentioned in the list — viz., Report of the International Monetary Conference of 1878 and W. S. Jevons’s Investigations in Currency and Finance — contain extensive and valuable bibliographies of money which will be of great service in making a thorough study of the subject.

Reference to works in foreign languages has been avoided. The French literature on this subject is very rich; the Italian and German also. The student reading any of these languages can easily find trace of the books he needs from references in the books here mentioned.

 

THE GENERAL SUBJECT OF MONEY.

Andrews, E. B., Institutes of Economics.

Bastable, C. F.,Money.” Encyclopaedia Britannica [9th ed.]

Colwell, Stephen, Ways and Means of Payment.

Ely, R. T., Introduction to Political Economy.

Jevons, W. Stanley, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange. [Text-book of the course, which should be in the hands of every student.]

Mill, J. S., Principles of Political Economy. [Ashley edition of 7th ed., 1909]

Nicholson, J. S., Money and Monetary Problems.

Patterson, R. H., The Science of Finance.

Poor, H. V., Money: its Laws and History.

Ricardo, David, Works.

Smith, Adam, Wealth of Nations. [Cannan ed. (1904)]

Walker, Francis A., Money in its Relations to Trade and Industry. [Text-book of the course, which should be in the hands of every student.]

_______, Political Economy (larger edition).

_______, Money.

Walker, J. H., Money, Trade, and Banking.

Willson, H. B., Currency.

 

SPECIAL MONETARY TOPICS.

Ashley, W. J., English Economic History. [2nd ed. Volume I; Volume II]

Atkinson, Edward, Report on Bimetallism in Europe. (Sen. Exec. Doc, No. 34, 50th Congress.)

Bagehot, Walter, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money-Market.

Böhm-Bawerk, Capital and Interest.

Bolles, Financial History of the United States. [1774-1789; 1789-1850; 1861-1885]

Carey, H. C, Pamphlets on the Currency. See Works, Vol. XXXI. [Perhaps “The Currency Question” in Miscellaneous Works of Henry C. Carey (1872?)]

Dunbar, C. F., Theory and History of Banking.

Evans, History of the United States Mint and Coinage.

Giffen, Robert, Essays in Finance. [1880; Second series, 3rd ed (1890)]

Gilbart, J. W., History, Principles, and Practice of Banking. [1904 ed.: Volume I; Volume II]

Goschen, Theory of the Foreign Exchanges.

Horton, S. Dana, Gold and Silver. [sicSilver and Gold and their Relation to the Problem of Resumption (1877)]

_______, The Silver Pound.

_______, [Appendix: Historical Material for and contributions to the Study of Monetary Policy] Report of International Monetary Conference of 1878. (Sen. Exec. Doc, No. 58, 45th Congress.)

Ingram, J. K., History of Political Economy.

Jacob, William, Historical Inquiry into the Production and Consumption of the Precious Metals. [Volume I; Volume II]

James, E. J., “Banks of Issue.” Lalor’s Cyclopaedia.

Jevons, W. S., Investigations in Currency and Finance.

Knox, John Jay, United States Notes.

_______, “Banking in the United States.” Lalor’s Cyclopaedia.

Laughlin, J. L., History of Bimetallism in the United States.

Laws of the United States relating to Loans and the Currency, Coinage and Banking. (Compilation published by the Government in 1886.)

Leslie, T. E. C, Essays in Political and Moral Philosophy.

Linderman, H. R., Money and Legal Tender in the United States.

Liverpool, Lord, A Treatise on the Coins of the Realm.

Macaulay, T. B., History of England. [Volume I; Volume II; Volume III; Volume IV; Volume V; Volume VI; Volume VII;Volume VIII; Volume IX; Volume X] [Popular edition (1889) in two volumes: Volume I; Volume II]

Patterson, R. H., The New Golden Age. [Volume I; Volume II]

Rogers, J. E. T., The First Nine Years of the Bank of England.

Sherman, John, Speeches and Reports on Finance and Taxation.

Sumner, W. G., History of American Currency.

Upton, J. K., Money in Politics.

Wells, David A., Recent Economic Changes.

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Annual Finance Reports of the United States, containing reports of

Comptroller of the Currency, Director of the Mint, etc.

Congressional Record.

House and Senate Documents.

Report of the International Monetary Conference of 1878.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, London.

American Bankers’ Magazine.

Rhodes’s Journal of Banking.

Reports of the Annual Meetings of the American Bankers’ Association.

Bradstreet’s and other periodicals devoted to economic, financial,

commercial, and monetary subjects.

Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Lalor’s Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and United States History. [Volume I (Abdication-Duty); Volume II (East India Company-Nullification); Volume III (Oath-Zollverein)]

 

OUTLINE OF A COURSE OF READING.

Two books are essential, and should be carefully studied:

  1. Jevons’s Money and the Mechanism of Exchange.
  2. Walker, F. A., Money in its Relations to Trade and Industry.

For the purpose of this course of lectures, no substitutes for these books could be suggested which would be of equal worth. If students wish to purchase a few more books, the following are recommended: Knox, United States Notes; Dunbar, Theory and History of Banking; Andrews, Institutes of Economics; Bagehot, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money-Market; Sumner, History of American Currency; Laws of United States relating to Loans, etc., 1886.

 

SHORT COURSE OF READING.

Jevons and Walker should be followed by the reading suggested at the beginning of each lecture. The reader will find frequent reference in these books to other books, and can follow the line of his special interest still further if he wishes. Some good text-book in Political Economy should be always at hand for the close study of the economic principles involved. Walker and Andrews are especially good on money.

 

LONGER COURSE OF READING.

After Jevons and Walker, Professor Bastable’s article on “Money,” in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th ed.), may be read as giving an admirable general review of the subject.

The historical evolution of money and money substitutes should be grasped before going deeply into the theory and the practical aspects of the subject.

Enough is given in Jevons, Walker, and Bastable on the subject of primitive money. Books of travel, writings of anthropologists, accounts of early institutions, history of ancient or barbarous peoples, old laws, early records of state, etc., furnish innumerable instances of all types of early money. The student should form the habit of making all his general reading aid his systematic special study.

On the subject of coins and coinage, read articles “Mint” and “Numismatics,” in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Liverpool’s Coins of the Realm, pp. 25-56, Walker’s Money, Chapters IX., X., XL, and Linderman’s Money and Legal Tender. Linderman was formerly Director of the Mint, and has given a very clear and interesting account of the history of United States coinage and some of the processes of coinage. Consult the Laws of the United States relating to Loans and the Currency, Coinage and Banking (1886). The coinage laws from 1792 to 1886 are there given, pp. 211-288. Consult, also, Evans, United States Mint and Coinage. Visit the Mint, and learn as much as possible of the technical processes of coinage, and examine the various collections of United States and foreign coins.

The subject of the production of the precious metals is very important. Jacob’s book is the great authority, and will repay reading through, although rather long. Walker’s Money (the large work), in Chapters V.-VIII., treats historically of this subject, and follows Jacob quite closely. An excellent plan would be to read these chapters in Walker, referring constantly to Jacob, and reading such parts as are of special interest. Having thus got the general facts clearly in mind, read Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book I., Chapter XI., ” Digression on the Variations in the Value of Silver,” for the sake of getting an idea of this old master. The most valuable discussions of the problems involved by great discoveries of gold and silver have been written since 1850. Read in Laughlin’s Bimetallism, Chapter V., on the gold discoveries; VIII., on production of gold since 1850; and XII., on cause of fall in value of silver. Follow this with the essay in Nicholson’s Money on the “Effects of Great Discoveries of the Precious Metals,” and Chapter VII. in the same book, on the international influences that fix general prices. The second article in Jevons’s Investigations, etc. (on the fall in the value of gold), may then be read, followed by “Changes in General Prices and in the Purchasing Power of Gold,” being Part VII. of Appendix D in Atkinson’s Report on Bimetallism. Various other parts of this Report will be found helpful. Patterson’s New Golden Age may be consulted with much profit. Wells’s Recent Economic Changes is excellent, as pointing out other factors than the quantity of money which may be operative in change of prices.

Passing on to credit substitutes for money, we take up first the “Organization of Credit” in the Banking System. Begin with Adam Smith’s account of the Bank of Amsterdam, Wealth of Nations, Book IV., Chapter III., Part I. Then read the chapters of Gilbart’s Banking, indicated below. Mr. Gilbart was a practical banker for half a century, from his twentieth year till his death in 1863. After twenty years’ experience in a London and in an Irish bank, and after publishing various writings on the subject of banking, he was made General Manager of the London and Westminster Bank, — the first of the Joint-Stock Banks in England, opened in 1834. It was largely through his efforts that the Joint-Stock Banks survived the opposition encountered on every side, and became established as a part of the English banking system. His book may be relied on for accuracy, and is clear in statement. Read §§ I. and II. for the early history of banks in England and elsewhere; §§ III.- VI. for an account of the Bank of England and the other English banks; § XXVIII. for a discussion of the relation of the Bank of England to the currency since the Act of 1844; § XXXV. for a sketch of the Clearing-House; and §§ XXXVI. and XXXVII. for a history of the crises of 1857, 1866, 1875, and 1878. Macaulay, in History of England, Chapter XX., tells in his graphic way the story of the founding of the Bank of England. It would be well to read also his third chapter on the state of England in 1685, and his account of the controversy over the Recoinage Act of 1696 (Chapter XXI.). Rogers’s First Nine Years of the Bank of England is very suggestive, admirably bringing out the political side of the movement for the Bank. Then read Professor Sumner’s discussion of the “Bank Restriction” in his History of American Currency, which also con tains the “Bullion Report.” Ricardo’s Works might well follow. Read Chapter XXVII. in his Principles of Political Economy, on “Currency and Banks,” and also one or two of his classical essays on currency questions. Next take up Bagehot’s Lombard Street: a Description of the Money-Market, a book written with all the nervous vigor and keen insight of this versatile author. While the book treats mainly English conditions, a clever shifting of recitals to the American money-market will throw much light on the intricate subject.

This reading will have taken the student over the Bank Charter Act of 1844 and its effects. Then read the article in Lalor on “Banks of Issue,” by Professor E. J. James, to get a general view of the subject and a clear idea of the scientific questions involved.

Turning now to American Currency and Banking, the article in Lalor, by John Jay Knox, on “Banking in the United States,” will be found the best introduction to the subject. He has described the National Bank system in his report as Comptroller of the Currency (Finance Report, 1875). Then read Sumner’s History of the American Currency. The subject of paper money is best approached through the history of American Government issues, both colonial and national. Follow Sumner with Knox’s United States Notes, Upton’s Money in Politics, and Sherman’s Speeches on the Currency. The Government compilation of Laws relating to Loans and the Currency, Coinage and Banking, published 1886, and before mentioned, should be constantly at hand for reference. Study the Legal-Tender Act and Legal-Tender Cases, the National Bank system, and the present coinage laws of the United States, so as to understand clearly our present currency. Bolles’s Financial History of the United States is especially useful. Colwell’s Ways and Means of Payment is an able, systematic treatise on money and credit, and might well be read at this point.

This reading will bring into view the principles underlying the whole monetary system as well as the practical questions at issue. For clear exposition and able discussion of these principles, especially in regard to the part played by credit as organized in the banking system, turn to J. H. Walker’s Money, Trade, and Banking, C. F. Dunbar’s Theory and History of Banking, and R. H. Patterson’s Science of Finance. This latter book discusses also the question of the relation of the state to the currency.

The problem of the monetary standard remains, — “The Battle of the Standards.”

A great classic is A Treatise on the Coins of the Realm, by Lord Liverpool, published at Oxford in 1805. The writer had held many high offices, — Secretary of the Treasury, Lord of the Treasury, President of the Board of Trade, among others. In 1774 he had successfully urged the recoinage of the gold coins. England had always had a silver standard; gold, however, being a legal tender at a certain fixed ratio to silver. The silver had become very worn. Coin was scarce, the bank having stopped specie payments in 1797. Lord Liverpool urged the change from a silver to a gold standard, the making of gold the sole, full legal tender, giving only a small legal- tender limit to silver as a subsidiary coin. This policy was substantially carried out by the Recoinage Law of 1816, which as amended in 1870 is the English law to-day, and Englishmen have now forgotten that they ever had a silver standard. S. Dana Horton says of this Treatise, it “became the great charter of Monetary Right for the Nineteenth Century.” It contains much valuable historical information on English coinage, as well as formal discussions of the nature and functions of money and the principles applying to a monetary system. Its bearing upon the bimetallic controversy is obvious. Then read Ricardo’s essay, “Proposals for an Economic and Secure Currency.” The book to be next read is Horton’s The Silver Pound and England’s Monetary Policy since the Restoration, or Horton’s Gold and Silver [sic, “Silver and Gold” is the correct title]. Laughlin’s Bimetallism in the United States should follow. The Report of the International Monetary Conference of 1878 is very valuable, containing an appendix filled with historical material bearing on this question, a brief account of the Latin Monetary Union, and an extensive bibliography mentioned above. Atkinson’s Report on Bimetallism in Europe will also be found useful. Nicholson has several good essays in favor of Bimetallism in his Money and Monetary Problems. Giffen writes on the other side. Read also Jevons’s essays on the subject in his Investigations, etc., and the chapter on “Bimetallism” in Walker’s Political Economy. Henry C. Carey’s Pamphlet on Financial Crises, and Willson’s Currency, pp. 250-284, would be a good introduction to the subject of panics. Follow with Jevons’s essays on Crises, in his Investigations, etc., and with Wells’s Recent Economic Changes.

A work of the highest importance is Lalor’s Cyclopaedia of Political Science. It should be diligently referred to throughout this entire course of reading. The unique value of this book is that it contains the whole political and eco nomic history of the United States in compact form, and with abundant reference to special authorities, while at the same time treating particular questions not merely in the light of American experience, but with a broad outlook upon European conditions, and in a manner truly scientific.

Finally, when the above outline of reading is exhausted, take up Andrews’s Institutes of Economics and study Part II., Exchange; Part III., Money and Credit; Part IV., Chapter III., Interest; Part VI., Chapters I.- III., United States Currency. It is compact with suggestive thought and an excellent stimulus to independent thinking on the part of the reader.

 

Source: From Sidney Sherwood, The History and Theory of Money, Appendix “Syllabus of the Preceding Course of Twelve Lectures on the History and Theory of Money” (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1896) pp. 359-365.

Image Source: Photograph of Sidney Sherwood by photographer Blessing. Johns Hopkins University. Sheridan Libraries.

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Berkeley. References for contemporary theories of social reform. Peixotto, 1906

 

The topics and references for the course “Contemporary Theories of Social Reform” taught by Jessica B. Peixotto in the economics department of the University of California (Berkeley) in 1906 come from that early era when sociology and social policy were still established fields within economics departments. Peixotto was the second woman to have been awarded a Ph.D. at the University of California as well as to have become the first woman to attain the rank of full-professor there. Two short biographies have been included in this post.

The printed syllabus to her course runs 29 pages and the entire list of topics and references that make up the syllabus have been transcribed (OCR + copy/paste) for this post. I have corrected many typos I have found, but I’ll warn users that while I have tried to keep new typos from adding to the noise, I am sure that many typos remain, especially from the original typesetting. Caveat lector!

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Jessica Blanche Peixotto, Economics: Berkeley
1864-1941
Professor of Social Economics, Emeritus

Jessica Blanche Peixotto, born in New York, October 9, 1864, essentially belonged to California–to both the State and the University. She came to the state in her early childhood, and her connection with the University lasted from her enrollment in 1891 until her death, October 19, 1941, a full fifty years. Graduated in 1894, awarded the degree of Ph.D. in 1900 (the second woman to receive this distinction), made a member of the teaching staff in 1904, in 1918 given the full rank of professor (the first woman thus honored), in 1936 she received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

Miss Peixotto’s career covered three fields. As a writer she published French Revolution and Modern French Socialism (1901), Getting and Spending at the Professional Standard of Living (1927), and numerous reports and articles in periodicals.

In the field of public service she was a member of the Berkeley Commission of Public Charities (1910-1913), and of the State Board of Charities and Corrections (1912-1924). On the latter board she served as chairman of the Committee on Children, and of the Committee on Research. During the first World War she served with the Council of National Defense as a member of a subcommittee of Women in Industry, and of the Committee on Child Welfare of the General Medical Board. In 1918 she received the more important appointment as Executive Chairman of the Committee on Child Welfare of the Women’s Committee of the Council, and later in the same year she was Chief of the Child Conservation Section.

But most to be remembered is her distinguished service in the University of California. The courses she offered included Contemporary Socialism, Control of Poverty, The Child and the State, the Household as an Economic Agent, and Crime as a Social Problem. In the later years of her teaching her interest shifted somewhat to problems of the consumer and general economic theory, culminating in a graduate seminar on the History of Economic Thought. Unstinting in the time and attention given to the advanced courses, she stimulated and inspired her students, proof of which is given in their contributions to the memorial volume, Essays in Social Economics, published in her honor in 1935 by the University of California Press.

In addition to formal instruction, Miss Peixotto served both the University and the community by organizing the first training in California for social work. This developed, in 1917, into a professional and graduate curriculum in the Department of Economics, later to become the Department of Social Welfare.

In 1923, under her chairmanship, the Heller Committee for Research in Social Economics was established at the University. This chairmanship she held until she was made Professor Emeritus in 1935.

The University as a whole, and more especially those in the Department of Economics, have been enriched by association with Dr. Peixotto. She was primarily an economist and insisted on laying a firm basis of economics for all her social work. But, as Professor Wesley Mitchell said in the memorial volume, her interests were so wideranging that her instruction has given intellectual stimulus not only to social workers and sociologists but also to psychologists, pediatricians, psychiatrists, economists, statisticians, and lawyers.

Fitly was she characterized in the citation when given the honorary degree of LL.D.: “Chosen counselor of the State in matters concerning the protection of children and the care of the unfortunate; social economist marshaling stubborn facts in the service of mankind; comrade among students, inspiring teacher, true lover of humanity.”

Source:  University of California. In Memoriam, 1941. pp. 24-25.

Image Source: University of California archive picture of Jessica Blanche Peixotto (UARC PIC 1300:004) from webpage “Women at CAL: When California Passed the Woman Suffrage Amendment, 1910-1914/Room 3“.

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JESSICA BLANCHE PEIXOTTO
1864 – 1941
by Judith R. Baskin

Jessica Blanche Peixotto, a member of a prominent Sephardic family distinguished for its long history of intellectual, philanthropic, and cultural contributions to the United States, broke gender boundaries throughout her career as a social economist and university professor. She was born in 1864 in New York City, the only daughter and oldest child of Raphael Peixotto, a prosperous Ohioan involved in trade with the South, and Myrtilla Jessica (Davis) Peixotto, originally of Virginia. In 1870, Raphael Peixotto moved his family and business to San Francisco. Jessica Peixotto’s four brothers were Edgar, a San Francisco attorney; Ernest Clifford, an artist and author; Eustace, director of public school athletics in San Francisco; and Sidney Salzado, a social worker.

After high school graduation in 1880, Peixotto acquiesced to family disapproval of her ambitions for higher education, continuing her studies at home through private instruction. In 1891, however, she enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1894, and continued on to graduate study in political science and economics. She received a Ph.D. in 1900, the second given to a woman at the University of California. Peixotto’s thesis The French Revolution and Modern French Socialism, published in 1901, was based on independent research undertaken at the Sorbonne in 1896–1897.

In 1904, Jessica Peixotto joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley as a lecturer in sociology. Her appointment was soon transferred to the economics department, where she taught until her retirement in 1935. In 1918, Peixotto was the first woman to earn the rank of full professor at Berkeley. Her service as head of her department was also a first for a woman there. National honors include her election as vice president of the American Economic Association in 1928. Following her retirement, Peixotto received honorary doctorates in law from Mills College in 1935 and from the University of California in 1936.

Peixotto’s published works include Getting and Spending at the Professional Standard of Living: A Study of the Costs of Living an Academic Life (1927), and Cost of Living Studies. II. How Workers Spend a Living Wage: A Study of the Incomes and Expenditures of Eighty-Two Typographers’ Families in San Francisco (1929). A collection of papers and comments Essays in Social Economics in Honor of Jessica Blanche Peixotto (1935) provides full details of her life and published writings.

Throughout her career, Peixotto was deeply committed to social causes, serving for twelve years on the California State Board of Charities and Correction. During World War I, she worked in Washington, first as executive chairperson of the child welfare department of the Women’s Committee of the Council of National Defense, and then as chief of the council’s child conservation section. She was also a member of the Consumers’ Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration in 1933. At the University of California, Peixotto founded a program within the economics department that ultimately led to a professional school of social work.

Jessica Peixotto died in October 1941. While proud of her Jewish background, she was not involved in the Jewish community or any Jewish causes. Her funeral service, followed by cremation, was conducted by a representative of the Unitarian Society, together with the vice president and provost of the University of California.

Source:  Jessica Blanche Peixotto webpage at the Encyclopedia of Jewish Women.

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

TOPICS AND REFERENCES FOR
ECONOMICS 42
CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF SOCIAL REFORM

BERKELEY: THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1906

 

PLAN OF THE COURSE:

    1. — The Subject in General.
    2. — Contemporary Political Socialism.
    3. — Critical Discussion of the Doctrines of Marxism.
    4. — Communism and Anarchism.
    5. — Social Reform Movements with Less Extensive Programs.
    6. — Utopianism.

PART I.— THE SUBJECT IN GENERAL.

  1. Nature and Scope of the Subject.
  2. Definition.
  3. Classification,—its Difficulties, its Necessity.

General Bibliography:

Bibliographies:

Stammhammer: Bibliographie des Socialismus u. Communismus. Jena, Fischer, Bd. I, 1898; Bd. II, 1900.

Documente des Sozialismus, edited by Ed. Bernstein. Berlin, 1901 and succeeding years.

Encyclopedias:

Bliss: Encyclopedia of Social Reform. Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1897.

Stegman and Hugo: Handbuch des Socialismus. Zürich, Verlags-Magazin, 1897.

General Studies:

Biederman, Karl: Vorlesungen über Sozialismus und Sozialpolitik. Breslau, Schottlander, 1900.

Bourguin, Maurice: Les systèmes socialistes et l’évolution économique. Paris, Colin, 1904.

Brooks, John Graham: The Social Unrest. Macmillan, N. Y., 1903.

Diehl, Karl: Über Sozialismus, Kommunismus u. Anarchismus. Jena, Fischer, 1906.

Ely, Richard T.: The Labor Movement in America. N. Y., Crowell & Co., 1886.

Ely, Richard T.: French and German Socialism in Modern Times. N. Y., Harper & Bros., 1883.

Socialism and Social Reform. N. Y., T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1894.

Graham, W.: Socialism, New and Old. London, Kegan Paul, 1891.

Herkner, Heinrich: Die Arbeiterfrage. Berlin, J. Guttentag, 1902.

Kirkup, T.: History of Socialism. London, Black, 1900.

Laveleye, Emile de: Le Socialisme Contemporain. Alcan, Paris, 1886. (Eng. trans.: The Socialism of To-day, by G. H. Orpen, London, Field & Tuer, 1885.)

Leroy-Beaulieu, Paul: Le Collectivisme, examen critique du nouveau socialisme. Paris, Guillaumin, 1885.

Essais sur la Répartition des Richesses et sur la Tendance à une moindre Inégalité des Conditions. Paris, Guillaumin, 1888.

La Question Ouvrier aux XIX Siècle. Paris, Charpentier, 1882.

Menger, Anton: Das Recht auf den vollen Arbeitsertrag. Stuttgart, Cotta, 1886. (Eng. trans.: The Right to the Whole Product of Labor, Macmillan, 1899.)

Pareto, V.: Les Systèmes Socialistes. Giard et Brière, Paris, 1902. 2 vols.

Pesch, Heinrich: Liberalismus, Socialismus, und christliche Gesellschaftsordnung. Freiburg i. Br., Herd’sche Verlagshandlung, 3 Bde., 1893-1900. (See particularly 3rd vol.)

Rae, John: Contemporary Socialism. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1898.

Schäffle, Dr. A. E. F.: Die Quintessenz des Socialismus. Gotha., Perthes, 1891. (Eng. trans.: Quintessence of Socialism.)

The Impossibility of a Social Democracy, being a supplement to the “Quintessence of Socialism,” with a preface by Bernard Bosanquet. London, S. Sonnenschein, 1892.

Sombart, Werner: Sozialismus und soziale Bewegung. Fünfte Auflage, 1905. (Eng. trans, of 1st edition: Socialism and the Social Movement in the Nineteenth Century. N. Y., Putnam, 1898.)

 

PART II.— CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SOCIALISM.

1. Marxism.

(a) The Theory.

1a. Its statement by the founders.

Engels, Friedrich: Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft. Stuttgart, Dietz, 1894.

Marx, Karl: Das Kapital. Hamburg, Meissner, 1882-98. Ill Bde. (Eng. trans.: Capital, London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1888. Students pressed for time may, without great disadvantage, consult Aveling, Edw.: “The Student’s Marx, an Introduction to the Study of Karl Marx’s ‘Capital.’” London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1892.)

Marx, Karl, and Engels, Fr.: Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848. (This remains the “Bible” of socialism, and should be carefully read by every student.)

Lassalle, Ferdinand: Reden und Schriften. 3 Bde., herausgegeben von Ed. Bernstein, Berlin, Verlag Vorwärts, 1891. (Eng. trans.: of the “Arbeiterprogramm” by Peters, “Working-man’s Programme and Addresses.” N. Y., International Publishing Co., 1898.)

Aus dem literarischen Nachlass von Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels und Ferdinand Lassalle. Herausgegeben von Franz Mehring, Stuttgart, Dietz, 1901-4. 4 Bde. (A collection of the greatest interest to students of the writings of these three founders of the Marxian movement.)

2a. Modern presentations of the theory.

Bernstein, Ed.: Die Voraussetzungen des Sozialismus und die Aufgaben der Sozialdemokratie. Stuttgart, Dietz, 1899.

Blatchford, Robert: Merrie England. Chicago, Chas. Kerr, & Co.

Deville, Gabriel: Principes Socialistes. Paris, Giard et Brière, 1896.

Ensor, R. C. K.: Modern Socialism. Harper & Bros., N. Y., 1904.

Fabian Essays in Socialism. London, Fabian Society, 1890.

Fabian Tracts (1-126), 1884-1906. Notably Nos. 5, 13, 15, 51, 69, 72.

Ghent, J. Wm.: Mass and Class. N. Y., London, Macmillan, 1904.

Guesde, Jules: Quatre ans de Lutte de classe à la Chambre.

Guesde, J., et Lafargue. P.: Le Program du Parti Ouvrier, son Histoire, ses Considérations, ses Articles. Lille, Imprimerie du Parti Ouvrier, 1894.

Hyndman, H. M.: The Economics of Socialism. London, Twentieth Century Press, 1896.

Kautsky, Karl: Das Erfurter Programm in seinen grundsätzlichen Theilen erlaütert. Stuttgart, Dietz, 1892.

Die Soziale Revolution. Berlin, Verlag “Vorwärts,” 1903. (Eng. trans.: The Social Revolution. Chas. H. Kerr & Co., Chicago.)

Kautsky, K., und Schönlank, Bruno: Grundsätze und Forderungen der Sozialdemokratie. Berlin, Verlag “Vorwärts,” 1892.

Labriola, A.: Socialisme et Philosophie. Paris, Giard et Brière, 1899.

Liebknecht, Wm.: Was die Socialdemokraten sind und was Sie wollen. Chemnitz, Albin Langer, 1894. (Eng. trans.: Socialism, What It Is and What It Seeks to Accomplish. Chas. H. Kerr & Co., Chicago.)

Menger, Anton: Neue Staatslehre. Jena, Fischer, 1903.

Neue Sittenlehre. Jena, Fischer, 1905.

Mills, W. T.: The Struggle for Existence. Chicago, International School of Social Economy, 1904.

Morris, Wm., and Bax, E. B.: Socialism, Its Growth and Outcome. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1897.

Spargo, John: Socialism. N. Y., Macmillan, 1906.

Yandervelde, Emile: Le Collectivisme. Bruxelles, Au Journal du Peuple, 1896.

Le Collectivisme et la Révolution Industrielle. Paris, Librairie Georges Bellais, 1900. (Eng. trans.: Collectivism and Industrial Revolution. Chicago, Chas. H. Kerr & Co., Standard Socialist Series No. 2.)

(b) The makers and propagators of the theory.

On Karl Marx:

Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen V.: Zum Abschluss des Marxischen Systems. Berlin, 1896. (Eng. trans.: Karl Marx and the close of his system. London, Fisher Unwin, 1898.)

Engels, Fr.: Karl Marx. (Handwörterbuch d. Staatswiss, IV, 1892.)

Liebknecht, Wm.: Karl Marx zum Gedächtnis. Nürnberg, 1896. (Eng. trans.: Karl Marx. Standard Socialist Series No, 1, Chicago, Chas. H. Kerr & Co.)

Liebknecht über Marx. (Neue Zeit, Jhrg. 15, 1896-97.)

Lafargue, P.: Karl Marx, Persönliche Erinnerungen. (Neue Zeit, Jhrg. 9, 1890-91.)

Mehring, Franz: Aus dem literarischen Nachlass, etc. Bd. I, pp. 1-57.

Nieuwenhuis, Domela: Karl Marx in Memoriam. Amsterdam.

Chapters in Kirkup, Rae, Russell, Sombart, etc

On Engels:

Kautsky, K.: Friedrich Engels und das Milizsystem. (Neue Zeit, Jhrg. 17, 1898-99.)

Friedrich Engels. (Züricher Socialdemokrat, Nos. 45-50, 1887.) (Eng. trans.: Fr. Engels, his Life, Work, and Writings. Chas. H. Kerr & Co., Chicago.)

Sombart, W.: Friedrich Engels, 1820-95, Ein Blatt zur Entwickelungsgeschichte des Socialismus. Berlin, 1895.

On Ferdinand Lassalle:

Becker, B.: Die Arbeiteragitations Lassalle, 1875.

Bernstein, Ed.: Ferdinand Lassalle und seine Bedeutung in der Geschichte der Sozialdemokratie in “Reden und Schriften,” Bd. I, pp. 5-189. (Eng. trans.: Ferdinand Lassalle as a social reformer. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1893.)

Dawson, W. H.: German Socialism and Ferdinand Lassalle. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1888.

Meredith, George: The Tragic Comedians.

Chapters in Kirkup, Rae, Russell, Sombart, etc.

(c) German Social Democracy (Socialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands).

1c. History of its development as a political party.

Bouffé, Gaston: Le Parti socialiste allemande, son évolution. Paris, A. Chevalier Marescq, 1903.

Bourdeau, J.: Le socialisme allemand et le nihilisme russe. Paris, Alcan, 1892.

Mehring, F.: Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sozialdemokratie. Stuttgart, Dietz, 1897-98. (Geschichte des Socialismus in Einzeldarstellung. Bd. 3.)

Milhaud, E.: La démocratie socialiste allemande. Paris, Alcan, 1903.

Russell, Bertrand: German Social Democracy. London, Longmans, 1896, pp. 69-116.

Stegman und Hugo: Articles — International Arbeiterassociation, Sozialistischen Arbeiterpartei, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands.

Sombart: Sozialismus, etc. Pp. 201-208.

2c. Party organization. — Program. —Party tactics. —Methods of propaganda.

Bernstein, Ed.: Die heutige Sozialdemokratie in Theorie u. Praxis. Munich, Beck & Co., 1906.

Mehring, F.: op. cit.

Milhaud, E.: op. cit., pp. 51-181.

Russell, B.: op. cit., pp. 116-143.

Stegman u. Hugo: Articles — Taktik, Program.

To follow the movement at first hand, consult:

Protokoll über die Verhandlungen des Parteitags der Socialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands from Halle (1890) to Jena (1905). Of these, that of Erfurt (1891), Dresden (1903), and Jena (1905) are of special interest.

Vorwärts. Berlin. Central official organ (daily).

Neue Zeit. Stuttgart, Dietz. Official magazine ed. by K. Kautsky (weekly).

Socialistische Monatshefte. Berlin. Publication representing the less radical group (monthly).

In Freien Stunden and Die Neue Welt. Literary publications which make a dignified attempt to spread artistic and intellectual ideals among the working classes.

Wahre Jacob. Stuttgart. Comic paper with no mean influence.

Die Gleichheit. (Interests of women workers), ed. by Clara Zetkin.

3c. The party in action today.

Revisionism. — Internationalism. — The agrarian question. — Relation to coöperation. — To trade-unionism. — Anti-semitism. — Syndicalism.

Bebel, A.: Unsere Ziele. Berlin, Buchhandlung “Vorwärts,” 1903.

Göhre, Paul: Die Agrarische Gefahr. Berlin, Verlag “Vorwärts,” 1902.

Kautsky, K.: Der Parlementarismus, die Volksgesetzgebung u. die Sozialdemokratie. Stuttgart, Dietz, 1893.

Mehring, F.: op, cit.,

Milhaud, E.: op. cit., pp. 181-517.

Russell, B.: op. cit., pp. 143-171.

4c. Austrian movement.

Stegman u. Hugo: Article, Oesterreich.

Deutsch, J.: Zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung in Ungarn. (Die Zeit, Nr. 162. Wein, Nov. 6, 1897.)

Gumplowicz, Ladisl: Mouvement social. Autriche (Rev. internat. de sociologie, II, 1894).

Kcral, August: Zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung Oesterreichs, 1867-94. Berlin, 1894.

Navay, L.: Die Arbeiterfrage in Alfeld mit besonderen Rucksicht auf die Arbeiterverhältnisse im Comitate Cznad. (Zeitschrift f. Volkwirtschaft, Soz. Pol. u. Verwalt, VI, 1897.)

Schatzl, J.: Die Corruption in der oesterreichischen Socialdemokratie. Wien (Leipzig, Liter. Anst., A. Schulze), 1896.

Schlesinger-Eckstein, T.: Die erste Konferenz deutscher Sozialdemokratinnen in Oesterreich (Neue Zeit, Jhrg. 16, 1897-98).

(d) Marxism in Latin Countries.

1d. France.

History of the growth of the Marxian movement in France. — Factions. — Programs. — Municipal Socialism in France. — Social influence. — Agrarian question.

Coubertin, Pierre de: France under the Third Republic, translated by I. F. Hapgood. New York, 1897, Ch. XIV.

Gaillard, Louis: La royaume socialiste, choses vues. Paris, Darajan, 1902.

Histoire socialiste (1789-1900) sous la direction de Jean Jaurès. Paris, Rouff, 1901.

Jaurès, Jean: Action Socialiste. Paris, Bellais (undated).

Lafargue, Paul: Die socialistiche Bewegung in Frankreich, 1876-90. (Neue Zeit, 1890.)

Socialism in France, 1876-96 (Fortnightly Rev., 1897, Sept.).

Laviron, P. E.: Le socialisme français et le collectivisme allemand. Paris, Allemane, 1895.

Lecky, W. H.: Democracy and Liberty. New York, 1896. Vol. II, pp. 224-369.

Louis, P.: Les Etapes du socialisme. Paris, Charpentier, 1903, pp. 235 et sq.

Métin, A.: La formation de la démocratie socialiste française.

Millerand, A.: Le socialisme réformiste français. Paris, Bellais, 1903.

Peixotto, J. B.: French Revolution and Modern French Socialism. New York, Crowell & Co., 1901. Ch. VI.

Sombart, W.: Sozialismus, etc. 5th ed., 1906. Pp. 208-214.

For movement at first hand, read:

Reports of the Congrès Generales des Organizations Socialistes. Paris, 1900, and succeeding years.

La Petite République. (Moderate group.) Paris (daily).

L ‘Humanité. Jaurès, editor. Paris. (Daily.)

La Revue Socialiste. Organ of Integral Socialists. (Monthly.)

Le Mouvement Socialiste. Organ of the radical group. (Fortnightly).

2d. Italy.

Marxism as it has become a political party in Italy. — The present political situation. — Special traits.

Gnocchi-Viani, O.: Dal mazzmianismo al socialismo. Colle, 1893.

Groppali, Alessandro: Le mouvement social en Italie (extrait de la Rev. Internat. de sociologie). Paris, Giard et Brière, 1897.

Loria, A.: II movemento operaio.

Nerbini: Cinquante Anni di socialismo nella Italia. Firenze, 1888.

Nitti, F. S.: Le mouvement économique et social en Italie en 1891. (Rev. sociale et politique, année 2, 1892.)

Sombart, W.: Sozialismus, etc. 5th ed. Pp. 235-239.

Der gegenwartige Stand der italienischen Arbeiterbewegung (Socialpol. Zentralbl. I, 1892).

Studien zur Entwickelungsgeschichte des italienischen Proletariats. (Arch. f. soc. Gesetzg. Bd. 6, 1893; Bd. 8, 1895.)

For first hand insight:

Bolletino della Direzione del Partito Socialista Italiano. Rome. (Monthly.)

Reports of meetings of congresses at Rome (1900), Imola (1902), Bologna (1904).

Avanti. Official organ of the radical socialists, editor, Enrico Ferri. Rome. (Daily.)

Nuova Antologia. Rome. (Monthly.)

L’Asino. Rome. (Comic weekly.)

Il Seme. Publication of the moderate group. Rome. (Fortnightly.)

3d. Spain.

General aspects of the movement in Spain.

Die sociale Bewegung in Spanien. (Jahrb. f. Socialwissenschaft, 1. u. 2, Zurich, 1879 and ’80).

Iglesias, Pablo: Die sozialistiche Arbeiterpartei in Spanien. (Neue Zeit, Jhrg. 10, 1891-92.)

Maze-Sencien, G.: Le socialisme en Espagne. (Extrait de la Rev. pol. et parl., 1898, aout et sept.). Paris, Davy, 1898.

Posada, A.: L’évolution sociale en Espagne, 1894 et 1895. Paris, Giard et Brière, 1896.

Le mouvement social en Espagne, 1896. (Extrait de la Revue internat. de sociologie.) Paris, Giard et Brière, 1897.

Le parti socialiste ouvrier Espagnol au congrès international de Paris de 1900. Madrid, Teodoro, 1901.

Stegman u. Hugo: Art. Spanien.

(e) Marxism in other Continental Countries.

1e. Belgium.

History and distinctive character of Belgian socialist movement.

Bertrand, Louis: Histoire de la Coöpération en Belgiqae. Bruxelles, 2 v.

Destrée, J., and Vandervelde, E.: Le Socialisme en Belgique. Paris, Giard et Brière, 1903.

Deutscher, Paul: The Socialist Movement in Belgium. The Workingmen’s Party (Free Review, 1896, March).

Sombart, W.: Sozialismus. 5th ed. Pp. 229-233.

Consult further:

Reports of Congrès du Parti ouvrier for 1885, and succeeding years.

Le Peuple. (Party organ.) Brussels. (Daily.)

2e. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Baug, Gus.: Ein Blick auf die Geschichte der dänischen Sozialdemokratie. (Neue Zeit, Jhrg. 16, 1897-98.)

Jensen, Ad.: Le Socialisme en Danemark. Rev. d’économpolitique, X, 1896, June.

Knussden, Olsen S. and Olsen M.: Bericht der Sozialdemokratie in Dänemark. Bruxelles, P. Weissenbruch, 1891.

Lindeberg, F.: Die Arbeiterbewegung Dänemarks. (Schweiz. Blätter f. Wirtsch. u. Soz. Pol., Jhrg. 6, 1898.)

Martinet, C: Le socialisme en Danemark. Paris, Société d’éditions scientifique, 1893.

Sombart, W.: Sozialismus, etc. 5th ed., 1906. Pp. 233 et sq.

Stegman u. Hugo: Arts. Dänemark, Norwegen, Schweden.

3e. Switzerland.

Berghoff-Ising, Dr. Frz.: Die socialistische Arbeiterbewegung in der Schweiz. Leipzig, Duncker, Humboldt, 1895.

Die neuere socialistische Bewegung in der Schweiz. (Schmoller’s Jahrb. f. Gesetzg., Jhrg. 17, 1893.)

Le socialisme en Suisse. (Extrait de la Revue d’Econ. pol. X, 1896.) Paris, Larose, 1896.

Chez nous en Suisse ou les libertés helvétiques mises à nus. Génève, 1899.

Lang, Otto: Der Socialismus in der Schweiz. Berlin, Verlag der Socialistischen Monatshefte, 1902.

Müller, H.: Die schweizerische Socialdemokratie. (Schweiz. Blätter f. Wirtschaft u. Soz.-Pol., Jhrg. 6, 1898.)

4e. Russia.

Plechanoff, G.: Die Sozialpolitischen Zustande Russland im Jahre 1890. (Neue Zeit, Jhrg. 9, 1890-91.)

Stegman u. Hugo: Art. Russland.

Winiarsky, L.: Der Sozialismus in Russischen-Polen. Neue Zeit, Jhrg. 10, 1891-92.)

(f) Marxism Under Anglo-Saxon Influence.

1f. Marxist movement in England.

The development of the present movement in England.— The Social Democrats. — Fabianism. — Independent Labor Party. — Socialism in the Colonies.

Bernstein, Ed.: Politische Partei u. wirtschaftliche Interessen in England. (Neue Zeit, Jhrg. 15, 1896-97.)

Herron, G. D.: Impressions of the English Labor Movement. (Commons, 1898, Jan.)

Laveleye, E. de: Socialism of Today. 1885. Appendix.

Marx-Aveling, Eleanor: Die Arbeiterclassen-Bewegung in England. Nürnberg, Wörlein u. Co., 1895.

Métin, A.: Le socialisme en Angleterre. Paris, Alcan, 1897.

Un socialisme sans doctrine (on Australia and New Zealand). Paris, Alcan, 1901.

Shaw, B.: Fabian Socialism, What It Is and What It Has Done. Fabian Tract No. 41.

Verhaegan, P.: Socialistes anglais. Paris, Larose, 1898.

Webb, Sidney: Socialism in England. American Economic Association, 1889, April.

Woods, R. A.: English Social Movements. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1895, pp. 38-78.

For the movement at first hand:

Clarion. Ed. by Robert Blatchford. London. (Weekly.)

Justice. Organ of Social Democratic Federation. London. (Weekly.)

Labor Leader. Official organ of I. L. P. (Monthly.)

Fabian News. Organ of Fabian Society. London. (Monthly.)

Reformer’s Year-Book.

2f. American Marxism.

The history of political socialism in the United States. — Distinctive traits. — Tendencies.

Ely, Richard T.: Labor Movement in America. N. Y., Crowell & Co., 1886.

Engels, Fr.: The Working-Class Movement in America. London, 1888.

Hilquit, Morris: History of Socialism in the United States. N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1902.

Kerby, W. J.: Le Socialisme aux Etats-Unis. Bruxelles, (Goemaere, 1897.

Mills, W. T.: The Struggle for Existence. Ch. XLV.

Martiis: Il Socialismo negli Stati Uniti. 1891.

Walterhausen: Der moderne Socialismus in den Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika. 1890.

Sombart, W.: The historical development of the American proletariat. (Inter. Soc. Rev., Nov., 1905.)

For the movement at first hand:

Socialist Party Proceedings at National Convention, Chicago, 1904. Issued by National Committee, 269 Dearborn street, Chicago.

Party programmes (to be found annually in most American Almanacs).

Party magazines and newspapers, of which the best are, perhaps:

The Worker. New York. (Daily.)

Appeal to Reason (somewhat “yellow” journal). J. A. Wayland, editor. Girard, Kansas. (Daily.)

International Socialist Review. Chicago, Chas. H. Kerr & Co. (Monthly.)

Wilshire’s Magazine. New York, Wilshire Publishing Co. (Monthly.)

 

2. Non-Marxist Political Socialist Movements.

(a) Christian Socialism.

1a. Catholic Socialism.

Its founders. — Its special aims and its influence in the leading countries of the world.

Hitz, F.: Die Quintessenz der sociale Frage. Paderbom, Bonifacius, Dr., 1877.

Leroy-Beaulieu, Anatole: La papauté, le socialisme et la démocratie. Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1892. (Eng. trans.: Papacy, Socialism, and Democracy.)

Nitti, F. S.: Il socialismo cattolico. Torino, 1891. (Eng. trans.: Catholic Socialism. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1895.)

Soderni, E.: Socialism and Catholicism. Longmans, 1896.

Stegman u. Hugo: Art. Christlicher Socialismus.

Valez, A.: Le socialisme catholique en France. Montauban, Granié, 1892.

Etudes sociales catholiques. Paris, A. Schulz et Friburg, 1892.

Best known periodicals:

Christlich-Sociale Blätter.

Revue du christianisme pratique.

La Réforme sociale (school of Le Play).

2a. “Christian” or Evangelical Socialism.

Its distinctive characteristics and political status in the several leading nations of the world.

Behrends, A. J. F.: Socialism and Christianity. N. T., Baker & Taylor, 1886.

Carter, J.: Christian Socialism in England. London, 1891.

Göhre, Paul: Die Evangelische-soziale Bewegung. Leipzig, 1896. (Eng. trans.: Evangelical-Social Movement in Germany, Its History and Aims. London, Ideal Public Union, 1898.)

Headlam, Rev. S. D.: Christian Socialism. Fabian Tract No. 42.

Kaufman, M.: Christian Socialism. London, Kegan Paul, 1888.

Naumann, P.: National-Socialen Katechismus. Berlin, Buchverlag der “Zeit,” 1897.

New Christian Socialism. (Quarterly Rev., 1894, July.)

Stöcker, Adf.: Selbsthülfe! Staatshülfe! Gotteshülfe! Essen, Gladbach, 1891.

Stubbs, C. W.: A Creed for Christian Socialists. London, Reeves, 1897.

Best known periodicals:

Church Reformer (London).

Christian Socialist (London).

Die Zeit (organ für nationales Sozialismus auf christliche Grundlage, Berlin).

Hilfe (Frankfurt, a. M.)

Revue du Christianisme social.

See also “Arbeiterbibliothek” (Göttinger), ed. by P. Naumann.

3a. The problem of Christian Socialism.

Adler, Felix: Life and Destiny. N. Y., McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905. Esp. pp. 75-141.

Clifford, Dr. John: Socialism and the Teaching of Christ. Fabian Tract No. 78.

Mathews, Shailer: The Social Teachings of Jesus.

Peabody, Francis G.: Jesus Christ and the Social Question. Macmillan, 1903.

Religion of an Educated Man.

Stubbs, Rev. C. W.: Christ and Economics. Isbister, 1893.

(b) “Philanthropic” Socialism.

What it is, and how it may, or may not, be political socialism. — Some of the representatives of this type of socialism. — Its influence.

Bernstein, Ed.: Zur Frage— Socialliberalismus oder Collectivismus. Berlin, 1900.

Brooks, John G.: The Social Problem. N. Y., Macmillan, 1902.

Hobhouse, L. T.: The Labor Movement. Fischer, Unwin & Co., 1898.

Hobson, J. A.: The Social Problem. N. Y., Pott, 1902.

Kelly, Edmond: Government or Human Evolution. Longmans, N. Y., 1900-01. 2 vols.

Kirkup, T.: History of Socialism. Pp. 273-311.

Wells, H. G.: Mankind in the Making. London, Chapman and Hall, 1904.

(c) State Socialism.

What it is and what sets it apart from the Marxist and other movements. — Katheder-Sozialismus.

Block, Maurice: Quintessence of State Socialism.

Bryce, R. J.: A Short Study of State Socialism. London, E. Baynes & Co., 1903.

Dawson, W. H.: Bismarck and State Socialism. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1890.

Kautsky, K.: Vollmar und der Staatssozialismus. (Neue Zeit, Jhrg. 10, 1891-92.)

Laveleye, Ch.: Socialism of Today. Ch. XII.

Métin, A.: Un Socialisme sans doctrine. Paris, Alcan, 1901.

Millerand, A.: Le socialisme réformiste.

Smith, Hubert L.: Economic Aspects of State Socialism. London, Simpkin, 1887.

Wagner, A.: Vortrag über Sozialismus, Sozialdemokratie, Katheder und Staatssozialismus. Berlin, Vaterländ. Verl. Anst. in Komm., 1894.

Die akademischer Nationalökonomie u. die Socialismus. Berlin, Becker, 1895.

 

PART III.— CRITICAL DISCUSSION OF THE DOCTRINE OF MARXIAN SOCIALISM.

1. Marxist Analysis of Industrial Society.

(a) Marxist Classification of the Factors in Industrial Life.

Labor and proletariat. — Capital and bourgeoisie, and whether these terms are, and can be, used interchangeably.

Kautsky, K.: The Social Revolution, esp. sec. 43.

Marx, K.: Communist Manifesto. Passim.

The “leisure class,” what socialists mean by it, and how they regard it.

See, besides writings of socialists previously cited:

Lafargue, Paul: Le droit à la paresse. Lille, Delory, 1891.

Massart, J., et Vandervelde, E.: Parasitisme organique et parasitisme social. Paris, Reinwald, Schleicher Frères, 1898. (Eng. trans.: Parasitism, organic and social. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1895.)

Students will do well to read in this connection:

Veblen, Thorstein: Theory of the Leisure Class. N. Y., Macmillan, 1902.

(b) Surplus Value.

The Theory.

Aveling, Edw.: Students’ Marx. Pp. 1-48.

Bernstein, Ed.: Die Voraussetzungen des Sozialismus, etc. Pp. 37-46.

Kautsky, K.: Karl Marx’s Oekonomische Lehre. Pp. 3-116.

Marx, K.: Capital. I, pp. 1-311.

Validity of the theory. — Its relation to orthodox economic findings. — How far it is fundamental to socialistic economic theory.

Böhm-Bawerk: Karl Marx and the Close of His System.

(c) Law of Concentration of Capital.

What it is.

Marx, K.: Capital. Pp. 625-736.

Aveling, Edw.: Students’ Marx. Pp. 138-157.

Kautsky, K.: Marx’s Oekonomische Lehren. Pp. 116-177.

Vandervelde, E.: Collectivism and Industrial Evolution. Pt. 1.

How far dispassionate investigation validates this law.

Bourguin, M.: Les systèmes socialistes. Ch. XI, Ch. XII, Ch. XIII, Annexes III, IV, V.

The Trusts in socialist theory.

Lafargue. P.: Les Trusts Américains. Paris, Giard et Brière, 1897.

Lloyd, H.: Wealth Against Commonwealth. Harper, 1894.

Macrosty, H. W.: Trusts and the State. Richards, 1901.

Vail, Chas.: The Trust Question. Chicago, Chas. H. Kerr & Co. (Pocket Library of Socialism No. 21.)

Mills, Walter Thomas: The Struggle for Existence. Ch. X.

Socialist attitude toward mechanical production. — Question of house industry vs. factory labor.

(d) Theory of Commercial Crises.

Socialist explanation of them. — Comparison of this explanation with other ways of accounting for them.

Bernstein, Ed.: Voraussetzungen des Sozialismus, etc. Pp. 66-83.

Kautsky, K.: Das Erfurter Programme. Pp. 86-104, 177-252.

(e) Theory of Increasing Misery.

What it is. — How far it is based on fact.

In addition to bibliography previously cited, see:

Why Are the Many Poor? Fabian Tract No. 1.

How far Marxian reformers expect the elimination of pauperism, and how far these expectations seem justified. — The question of unemployed in socialist theory.

Bebel, A.: Die Frau u. der Sozialismus, passim.

Kautsky, K.: Das Erfurter Programme. Pp. 104-166.

Renard, G.: Le régime socialiste. Pp. 152-186.

(f) The General Strike.

The conception viewed historically, and in contemporary socialist usage. — Objects.

Bernstein, Ed.: Der Strike als Politischer Kampfmittel. (Neue Zeit, Jhrg. 12, 1893-94.)

La Grève Générale et le Socialisme. Enquête Intérnationale. Paris, Odéon, 1904. (June, July, Aug. and Sept. Nos. of “Le Mouvement Socialiste.”)

Protokoll über die Verhandlung des Parteitags der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands. Jena, 1905.

(g) Canons of Distribution.

Whether any are to be found in Marxist and related socialist theory, and if so, how far and in what way they promise more general enjoyment of the results of social production. — Whether socialist schemes expect to increase production, or control consumption. — Whether Marxists aim at distributive justice. — Economic efficiency under socialism.

(h) Competition.

Whether socialists expect the elimination of competition. — The claim that competition involves waste. — How far it is true. — Whether it is possible to eliminate competition from human affairs. — Whether it should be eliminated if it could be. — Whether industrial development is actually tending to diminish competition.

Kelly, Ed,: Government or Human Evolution. II, pp. 273-293.

Reeves, Sidney: The Cost of Competition. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906.

2. Marxist Political Theory.

(a) The State in Socialist Interpretation.

What the State is held to be.— Its origin.— Its end.— The range of functions ascribed to it.

Deville, G.: Principes Socialistes. Pp. 174-181.

Renard, Georges: Le régime socialiste. Pp. 61-125.

(b) The Individual and His Rights.

Natural rights in Marxian theory. — Rights of the individual specifically or implicitly demanded by all socialists. — The grounds on which the demand for rights is formulated. — How far the word “natural” has disappeared.

Lafargue, P.: Le Droit à la paresse, passim.

Renard, G.: Le Régime socialiste. Alcan, 1904, pp. 24-61.

For views kindred to Marxian see, by way of comparison:

Hobson, J. A.: Social Problem. Bk. II, Chs. I and II.

Kelly, E.: Government or Human Evolution. I, Ch. I.

Menger, A.: Right to the Whole Product of Labor. Pp. 1-40.

Ritchie, D. G.: Natural Rights. London, 1895.

(c) Doctrine of Property.

The theory usually adopted as to the origin and function of property. — The changes in property relations which socialists have in view.

Lafargue, Paul: Evolution of Property from Savagery to Civilization. Swan Sonnenschein, 1891.

Lafargue, Paul, et Guyot, Yves: La propriété communiste par P. Lafargue; réfutation par Guyot. Paris, Delgrave, 1895.

Laveleye, Em. de: De la propriété et ses formes primitives. Paris, Baillière, 1874. (Eng. trans, by G. R. L. Marriott, London, 1878.)

Menger, A.: Right to the Whole Product of Labor. Pp. 157-175.

Willoughby, W. W.: Social Justice. London, Macmillan, 1900. Ch. IV.

(d) Social Democracy.

As to the form of government socialists propose. — What “social democracy” means additional to democracy. — Whether socialist understanding of democracy is the usual one. — Whether the democratic form of government is fundamental to a socialist state. — Whether economic freedom is the means to democracy, or democracy the means to economic freedom, and what economic freedom means.

Bernstein, Ed.: Vorausaetzungen des Socialismus. Pp. 118-140.

(e) Tendency to Belief in Decentralization.

Some reasons for this tendency. — The effects of the doctrine.

(f) Internationalism.

Its nature. — Its present popularity. — Whether adhesion to the doctrine implies diminished patriotism.

Jaurès, J.: Patriotisme et Internationalisme. Lille, Delory (undated.)

Renard, G.: Régime socialiste. Alcan, 1904. Pp. 68-74.

(g) The Family.

Socialist ways of accounting for its origin and its political and social function. — How socialists relate the institution of the family to the status of woman. — The relation between child and parent in the socialist theory.

Bebel, A.: Die Frau und der Sozialismus. Stuttgart, Dietz, 1891. (Eng. trans.: Woman in the Past, Present, and Future, of which many popular editions.)

Engels, F.:  Der Ursprung der Familie. Zürich, Verlags-Magazin, 1891. (Eng. trans.: Origin of the Family. Chicago, Chas. H. Kerr & Co.)

Pearson, Karl: Ethic of Freethought. London, Black, 1901. Pp. 354-431.

Russell, B. and A.: German Social Democracy. Pp. 175-195.

Mills, Walter Thomas: The Struggle for Existence. Ch. XI.

3. Marx’s Doctrine of Social Progress.

(a) The Ultimate Premises of Socialism.

As to whether there are any fixed premises, and whether these premises are those which socialists themselves define. — Whether pessimism or optimism is at the bottom of the movement. — The controversy between materialism and idealism.

Bernstein, Ed.: Das realistische und das idealistische Moment in Socialismus (in “Zur Geschichte und Theorie des Sozialismus, pp. 262-287.)

Engels, Fr.: Eugen Duhrings Umwalzung der Wissenschaft.

Jaurès, J., et Fafargue, P.: Idéalisme et Matérialisme. Paris, 1895. (Publications du groupe des étudiantes collectivistes.)

Labriola, A.: Socialisme et Philosophie. Paris, Giard et Brière, 1899.

Marx, K.: “Holy Family” in “Aus dem literarischen Nachlass,” etc.

Pearson, K.: Ethic of Freethought. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1901. Pp. 301-354.

(b) The Materialistic Conception of History.

The doctrine. — Its antecedents, and how far the theory is the special property of socialists. — The several forms in which the theory is taught. — Validity of the theory. — Its influence outside of socialist circles.

Barthe, P.: Philosophie der Geschichte als Sociologie. Pp. 303-353.

Calwer, Rich.: Das Kommunistiche Manifest u. die heutige Sozialdemokratie. Braunschweig, Gunther, 1894.

Engels, Fr.: Feuerbach, the Roots of the Socialist Philosophy.

Ferri, Enrico: Socialismo e Scienza positiva. Roma, 1894. (Eng. trans.: Socialism and Positive Science.)

Labriola, A.: Saggi intorna alla concezione materialistica della Storia. Loescher, 1902. (Eng. trans.: Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History.)

Loria, A.: Analisi della Proprietà Capitalista. Torino, Bocca, 1889.

Marx, K.: Misère de la Philosophie.

Communist Manifesto.

Masaryk, T. G.: [Die philosophischen und sociologischen] Grundlagen des Marxismus. Vienna, Könegen, 1899.

Seignobos, Ch.: La méthode historique appliquée aux sciences sociales. Alcan, 1901. Pp. 259-269.

Seligman, E. R. A.: Economic Interpretation of History. Macmillan, 1902.

Stein, Ludwig: Die soziale Frage im Lichte der Philosophie. Stuttgart, Enke, 1903. Pp. 302-312.

Weisengrün, Paul: Der Marxismus. Leipzig, Veit & Co., 1900. Pp. 36-212.

(c) Class Struggle.

The doctrine in exact terms. — The social classes it defines, and the basis used to distinguish these. — The contradictions involved in the theory of class struggle. — Whether there is a class struggle on the lines defined by Marxists, or on any lines.

Barthe, P.: Philosophie der Geschichte als Sociologie. Pp. 336-346.

Bauer, A.: Les Classes Sociales. Paris, Giard et Brière, 1902.

Bernstein, Ed.: Klassenkampf-Dogma u. Klassenkampf-Wirklichkeit. Zur Geschichte u. Theorie des Socialismus, pp. 382-406.

Kautsky, K,: Das Erfurter Programme. Pp. 31-86.

Marx, K.: Communist Manifesto.

Novikow, J.: Les luttes entre les sociétés humaines et leurs phases successives. Paris, Alcan, 1896.

Noyes, W. H.: The Evolution of the Class Struggle. Chicago, Chas. H. Kerr & Co. (Pocket Library of Socialism.)

Simon, A.: Class Struggle. Chas. H. Kerr & Co., Chicago. (Madden Lib. No. 2.)

Veblen, Thorstein: Theory of Business Enterprise. Macmillan. Esp. Chs. VI, VII, IX, X.

4. Consideration of the Leading Objections to Socialism.

Brünhuber, M.: Die heutige Sozialdemokratie. Fischer, Jena, 1906.

Clark, W.: The Limits of Collectivism (Contemporary Review, 1893).

Donisthorpe, W.: Individualism— A System of Politics. Macmillan, 1889.

Gilman, N. P.: Socialism and the American Spirit. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1893.

Gladden, W.: Applied Christianity. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1886. (Essay on The Strength and Weakness of Socialism.)

Guyot, Yves: La tyrannie socialiste. Paris, Delagrave, 1893. (Eng trans.: The Tyranny of Socialism. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1894.)

Mackay, J., and others: A Plea for Liberty. Murray, 1892.

Mallock, W. H.: Classes and Masses. London, 1896.

Aristocracy and Evolution. N. Y., 1898.

Morley, John: Compromise. 2nd ed. rev. London, 1877.

Nicholson, J. Shield: Historical Progress and Ideal Socialism. London, Black, 1894.

Richter, Eugene: Die Sozialdemokraten, was sie wollen und was sie werken. Berlin, 1878.

Richter, Eugene: Socialdemokratische Zukunftsbilder. Berlin, Verlag “Fortschritt,” A. G., 1890. (Eng. trans.: Pictures of the Socialist Future. 1894. Sonnenschein.

Say, Léon: Contre le Socialisme. Paris, Leroy, 1896.

Schäffle, A. E. F.: The Impossibility of Social Democracy.

Spencer, Herbert: The Man versus the State.

Sumner, W. G.: What Social Classes Owe Each Other. N. Y., 1884.

Thiers, A.: Du droit de propriété. 2 vols. Paris, Didot, 1841. (Eng. trans.: Rights of Property.)

PART IV.— COMMUNISM AND ANARCHISM.

1. Communism.

Some notable recent attempts at communism. — General type of social organization under communism. — Psychology of the communist. — Tendencies and average results of communistic experiments.

Broome, Isaac: The Last Days of the Ruskin Coöperative Association.

Bulletin of U. S. Labor Dept. (article on Coöperative Communities in the U. S., by Rev. Alex. Kent).

Eastlake, Allan: Oneida Community. Redway, 1900.

Nordhoff, C: Communistic Societies of the U. S. London, Murray, 1875.

Winchell, Alex. C: Communism in America. (North American Review, 1888, May.)

2. Anarchism.

(a) Classification.

The several types of anarchism, and their representatives.

Bakounine, Michel: Oeuvres (especially Dieu et I’Etat).

Grave, Jean: La société mourante et l’anarchie. Paris, 1893.

La société future. Stock, 1895.

L’Individu et la société. 1897. 2nd ed.

L ‘Anarchie, son but, ses moyens. Paris, Stock, 1899.

Hertzka, Theodore: Freiland. (Translated by A. Ransom, N. Y., 1891.)

Kropotkin, Peter H.: La conquête du pain. Paris, 1892.

Parôles d’un révolutionaire.

Autour d’une vie. Paris, 1903. 2 vols. 1899(?).

L’anarchie, sa philosophie, son idéal. 1905(?).

Memoires d’un révolutionaire.

Fields, Factories, and Workshops. London, S. Sonnenschein, 1901.

Malato, Ch.: De la commune à l’anarchie. Paris, Stock, 1894.

Mackay, John: Der Anarchisten.

Michel, Louis: La Commune. Paris, Stock, 1898.

Most, Johann Joseph: Die Lösung der sociale Frage. 1876. Memoiren, 2 Bde., N. Y., 1903.

Reclus, Elisée: L’évolution, la révolution et l’idéale anarchique. Paris, 1902.

Spencer, Herbert: Social Statistics (1st ed., containing chapter on right of individual to ignore the State).

Tucker, Benj.: Instead of a Book. N. Y., Tucker, 1893. (Reprinted under the title “State, Socialism, and Anarchism.” London, Reeves, 1895.)

Yarros, Victor: Anarchism, Its Aims and Methods. Boston, 1887.

(b) The Theory in Practice.

The programmes. — Organization. — Methods of propaganda. — The relation of anarchism to socialism. — To individualism. — Herbert Spencer and anarchism. — Psychology of the anarchist.

Bernstein, Ed.: Die sociale Doktrin des Anarchismus (in Neue Zeit, Jahrg. 10, Bd. 1-2).

Basch, V.: L ‘individualisme anarchiste. Alcan, 1904.

Dubois, Felix: Le péril anarchiste. Paris, 1894. (Eng. trans.: The Anarchist Peril. Unwin, 1894.)

Garan, J.: L’anarchie et les anarchistes. Paris, 1885.

Ghio, Paul: L’anarchie aux Etats Unis. Paris, Colin, 1903.

Hamon, A.: Le psychology de l’anarchiste socialiste. Paris, Stock, 1895.

Lombroso, Cesare: Gli anarchici. Turin, 1894.

Plechanoff, G.: Anarchismus und Sozialismus. Berlin, 1894. (Eng. trans.: Anarchism and Socialism. Chicago, Chas. H. Kerr & Co.)

Shaw, Bernard: The Impossibilities of Anarchism. Fabian Tract No. 46.

Simons, A. M.: Socialism vs. Anarchy. Chicago, Chas. H. Kerr & Co. (Pocket Lib. of Socialism.)

Zenker, E. V.: Der Anarchismus. Kritische Geschichte der anarchistischen Theorien. Jena, 1895. (Eng. trans.: Anarchism, a Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory. Putnam, 1897.)

PART V.— SOCIAL REFORMS WITH LESS EXTENSIVE PROBLEMS.

1. Land Nationalization and Single Tax.

The doctrine. — Methods of reform proposed. — The founder of the Single Tax movement, and some facts of his life which throw light on his theories. — Economic and social results expected. — Critical examination of the doctrine. — Relation of socialists to these movements.

An Essay on the Right of Property in Land. 1782. Reprinted, London, 1891, under the title “Birthright in Land.”

Cox, H.: Land Nationalization. London, Methuen, 1892.

Dawson, W. H.: Unearned Increment. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1890.

Hobson: Coöperation in the Land.

Moore: Back to the Land.

Simons, A. M.: Single Tax vs. Socialism, Chicago, Chas, H. Kerr & Co. (Pocket Lib. of Socialism.)

Stubbs, C. W.: Land and the Laborer. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1891,

Thackeray, S. W.: The Land and the Community. N. Y., Appleton & Co., 1889.

Among good criticisms of the theory:

Hobson, J. A.: The Influence of Henry George in England. (Fortnightly Review, 1897, December.)

Schäffle, A.: Inkorporation des Hypothekencredits. Tübigen, 1883.

Smart, W.: Taxation of Land Values and the Single Tax.

Walker, Francis A.: Land and Its Rent. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1883. Pp. 141-182.

Publications of the “Land and Property Defense League.”

2. Coöperation.

Coöperation from the social reform point of view. — Coöperation and communism. — Coöperation and profit sharing. — The several kinds of coöperative societies. — The status of the coöperative movement in the leading nations of Europe and America. — The outlook for coöperation. — Arguments in favor of the movement. — Its weaknesses. — Socialists’ attitude toward it.

Bertrand, Louis: Histoire de la coöpération en Belgique.

Gide, Ch.: La Coöpération. Paris, Librarie de la société du Recueil genéral des lois et des arrêts et du Journal du palais. 1900.

Holyoake, G. J.: History of Coöperation in England. London, 1875-85. 2 vols.

Hughes, Thomas, and Neale, Edward V.: A Manual for Coöperators. Manchester, 1888.

Hubert-Valleroux, P.: La Coöpération. Paris, 1904.

Jones, Benjamin: Coöperative Production. Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1894.

Pissamiglio: Distributive Coöperative Societies.

Van Marken: Industrial Social Organization. Delft., 1901.

Wright, Carrol D.: Manual of Distributive Coöperation. Boston, 1885.

On relation to Social Democracy:

Anseele, E.: “Socialism and Coöperation” in Ensor. Modern Socialism, pp. 284-301.

Gerhard, Adele: Konsumgenossenschaft und Sozialdemokratie. Nürnberg, Wörlein u. Co., 1895.

Kautsky, K.: Konsumverein u. Arbeiterbewegung. (Wiener Arbeiterbibliothek, Heft. 1) Vienna, 1897.

Milhaud, Ed.: La démocratie socialiste allemande. Pp. 442-517.

Reports and publications:

Annual reports of Coöperative Unions, of Coöperative Wholesale, of “Vooruit,” Maison du Peuple, etc.

Annual reports of Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Coöperative News, Manchester.

3. Trade-Unionism.

How far trade-unionism may justifiably be included in a study of social reform movements. — The objects of trade-unionism, and how these objects compare with the primary aims of other social reform movements. — The exact distinction between the “industrial democracy” this movement represents, and “social democracy,” and, in general, the relation between trade-unionism and socialism.

Herkner, Heinrich: Die Arbeiterfrage. Berlin, J. Guttentag, 1902.

Lange, Friedrich A.: Die Arbeiterfrage. Winterthur, 1879.

London, Jack: The Scab. Chicago, Chas. Kerr & Co. (Pocket Lib. of Socialism.)

Nicholson, J. S.: Strikes and Social Problems. (Essay on Labor Combinations and Competition.)

Troeltseh, W., and Hirschfeld, P.: Die deutschen Sozialdemokratischen Gewerkschaften. Berlin, Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1906.

Webb, Sidney and Beatrice: Industrial Democracy. 2 vols.

PART VI.— UTOPIANISM.

  1. The relation of Utopianism to social reform. — The types of Utopian writings. — Some leading modern examples of Utopian plans, and their place in current reform movements. — The question of the utility of Utopianism.

Bellamy, Ed.: Looking Backward. 1870. London, Reeves & Co., 1888.

Equality. New York, Appleton, 1897.

Ellis, Havelock: The Nineteenth Century, an Utopian Retrospect. Boston, Small, Maynard & Co., 1901.

Hertzka, Theodor: Freiland. (Eng. trans.: Freeland. Translated by A. Ransom. N. Y., 1891.)

Hobson, J. A.: Edward Bellamy and the Utopian Romance. (Humanitarian, 1898. Vol. 13.)

Howells, W. D.: A Traveller from Altruria.

Kaufmann, M.: Utopias from Sir Thomas Moore to Karl Marx:. London, Paul, 1879.

Morris, Wm.: News from Nowhere. Longmans, 1896.

Wells, H. G.: A Modern Utopia. Chapman & Hall, 1905.

Source: University of California, Department of Economics. Topics and References for Economics 42: Contemporary Theories of Social Reform. Berkeley: The University Press, 1906. 29 pages.

 

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Chicago. Reading list for Development of Monetary and Financial Institutions. Hamilton, 1960

 

 

The papers of the economic historian Earl J. Hamilton are a grab-bag of archival treasure, poorly sorted and demanding from the historian an unlimited faith in the goodness of the gods of serendipity. This post is a course reading list that would have rested safe in the obscurity of Hamilton’s papers, but for a chance encounter. I have taken the liberty of assuming the course title for Economics 334 at the University of Chicago in 1959-60 would match that of 1956-57. The course reading list is a nice example of the intersection of economic history and the history of economics.  

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Economics 334: Mr. Hamilton

Assignments to be read before May 20, 1960

  1. Luigi Einaudi, “The Medieval Practice of Managed Currency,” in A.D. Gayer (Ed.), The Lessons of Monetary Experience, pp. 259-268. HG 255.L63
  2. W. C. Mitchell, “The Role of Money in Economic Theory,” in The Backward Art of Spending Money, pp. 149-176. HB 33.M 68.
  3. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, “Digression concerning Banks of Deposit, particularly concerning that of Amsterdam,” in Book IV, Chapter III, Part I. HB 161. S 65.
  4. Earl J. Hamilton, American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain, Chapter XIII. H31.H33, v. 43
  5. Earl J. Hamilton, “Prices and Wages at Paris under John Law’s System,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LI, (1936-1937), pp. 42-70. HB1.Q3
  6. Jacob Viner, Studies in the Theory of International Trade, Chapters III-V HF1007.V75
  7. N. J. Silberling, “Financial and Monetary Policy of Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XXXVIII (1923-24), pp. 214-33, 397-439. HB1.Q3, v.38
  8. Lloyd W. Mints, History of Banking Theory, Chapter IV. HG1586.M6
  9. Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street. HG3000.L82B3
  10. R. S. Sayers, “The Question of the Standard in the Eighteen-Fifties,” Economic History (a supplement to the Economic Journal), Vol. II, pp. 575-601. HB1.E31
  11. Rufus S. Tucker, “The Myth of 1849,” in C.O Hardy, Is There Enough Gold? Appendix A, pp. 177-199. HG289.H28.
  12. J. H. Clapham, The Bank of England, Vol. II, Chapters VI-VIII and Epilogue. HG2996.C6
  13. Knut Wicksell, “The Influence of the Rate of Interest on Prices,” Economic Journal, Vol. XVII (1907), pp. 213-220. YW16 (reprint)
  14. O. M. W. Sprague, Crises under the National Banking System, Washington, 1910, pp. 1-107. HB3743.S7
  15. John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, Book III, Chapter XII. HB171.M635, M636, M644, M653.
  16. Charles F. Dunbar (Revised and edited by O. M. W. Sprague), The Theory and History of Banking, Chapters VIII (“The English Banking System”), IX (“The French Banking System”), X (“The German Banking System”), XI (“The National Banks of the United States”). HG1586.D9
  17. J. M. Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform, Chapters I-II, IV-V. HG221.K4
  18. J. M. Keynes, A Treatise on Money, Vol. II, Chapter 30. HG221.K422.

There will be an hour examination on April 29, 1960 covering 1-18 and the lectures.

  1. Alfred Marshall, Money, Credit, and Commerce, Books II, IV, and Appendix A. HG221.M35
  2. J. M. Keynes, Essays in Persuasion, Part II, Chaps. 1 and 3; Part III, Chapter 5; Part V, Chapter 2. In the London, 1933 edition these chapters cover pages 77-79, 105-17, 244-70, 358-73. HC57.K471.
  3. D. H. Robertson, Essays in Monetary Theory, Chaps. I and XII. HB 171.R544.
  4. Fred H. Klopstock, “Monetary Reform in Western Germany,” Journal of Political Economy, August, 1949. HB1.J7, v. 57.
  5. J. M. Keynes, A Treatise on Money, Vol. II, Chaps. 35 and 37. HG221.K422
  6. Earl J. Hamilton, “Prices and Progress,” Journal of Economic History, XII (1952), pp. 325-49.
  7. J. M. Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Chapter 23. HB171.K46
  8. Official Papers by Alfred Marshall, pp. 3-16. HG171.M318.
  9. The Federal Reserve System: Purposes and Functions
  10. Rondo E. Cameron, “The Credit Mobilier and the Economic Development of Europe,” Journal of Political Economy, LXI (1953), pp. 461-88.

There will be a three-hour final examination (9:00-12:00) on May 27, 1960 covering all assignments and lectures.

Source: Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Earl J. Hamilton Papers. Box 2. Folder “Academic and Personal Correspondence 1950s-1970s; 1990; and n.d.”

Image Source:  University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-02446, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.