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M.I.T. Capital Theory, Uncertainty, Welfare Economics. Half-semester Core Microeconomics. Samuelson, 1975

From my files from graduate school I have transcribed the syllabus and final exam for the fourth of the four half-semester core microeconomic theory courses taught at M.I.T. during the academic year 1974-75. The topics of capital theory, uncertainty and welfare economics fell to Paul Samuelson. The preceding three half-semester microeconomics theory courses were taught by Robert Bishop, Martin Weitzman and Hal Varian.

 

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READING LIST FOR 14.124
P. A. Samuelson
SPRING 1975

MICROECONOMIC THEORY

I. CAPITAL THEORY

  1. I. Fisher

Theory of Interest
Part II, all; Part I, Chs. 1,3; Part III, Chs. 10,11.

  1. E. Böhm-Bawerk

Positive Theory of Capital
Book V, all; Book VI, Chs. 6,7,8.

  1. R. M. Solow

“A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth”
Quarterly Journal of Economics, February, 1956; pp. 65-94.

Capital Theory and the Rate of Return
(DeVries Lectures) North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1963.

  1. T. Koopmans

Three Essays, pp. 105-126.

  1. F. Ramsey

E.J., 1928

  1. N. Kaldor

“Alternative Theories of Distribution”
RES, 1955

  1. Sraffa

Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities
Chs. 1, 2, 3.

  1. Dorfman-Samuelson-Solow

Linear Programming and Economic Analysis
Chs. 11, 12.

  1. A. Samuelson

“A Summing Up”
QJE, 1966

II. ECONOMICS OF UNCERTAINTY

  1. K. Arrow

Theory of Risk Bearing
Chs. 3,1,2,4.

  1. J. Tobin

RES, 1958

  1. H. Markowitz

Portfolio Selection
sample

III. MODERN WELFARE ECONOMICS

  1. A. Bergson [A. Burk]

“A Reformulation of Certain Aspects of Welfare Economics”
QJE, 52 (February 1938)
pp. 310-334

  1. J. Hicks

“The Foundations of Welfare Economics”
EJ, 49 (December 1939)
pp. 696-712

  1. P. A. Samuelson

Foundations of Economic Analysis (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1947)
Chapter 8, “Welfare Economics”

  1. P. A. Samuelson

“The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure”
Review of Economics and Statistics, 36 (November 1954)
pp. 387-389

reproduced as
Chapter 92
The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson, Vol. II
MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1966; editor: J.E. Stiglitz

  1. K. Arrow

Social Choice and Individual Values, 1951
Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Monograph #12
Wiley, New York, second edition, 1963

  1. J. Rawls

A Theory of Justice
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1971

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Background Reading

  1. A. C. Pigou

The Economics of Welfare, 1920
Macmillan, London, 4th edition, 1932
reprinted in new appendices, 1952

  1. L. Robbins

An Essay of the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, 1932
Macmillan, London, 2nd edition, 1935

  1. van der Graaf

Theoretical Welfare Economics
Cambridge University Press, London, 1957, paperback

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FINAL EXAM
14.124
MAY 20, 1975

This is a 1 ½ hour exam. You may take up to an extra half hour, but only if you need it and not in order to establish extra credit for all you know.
Answer any 3 of the following four questions, thus allowing about one half hour for each.

 

  1. Society consists of 2N people [equal numbers of men (i=1) and women (i=2)] who will live and consume for two periods: t=1,2, or now and tomorrow. Also, society has a Solow neoclassical production function:

C(t) + K(t+1) = F[L(t),K(t)]

All 2N people have the same labor, namely Li(t) = 1/2N. The women or men possesss equal shares in the initial capital good, K(1) = k/2N, but it is an unknown of the problem to find out what will be K(2).

Intertemporal tastes of the representative man and woman involve the same concave u[C(t)] function, and with equal Böhm-Fisher subjective time preference factors, ρ1 and ρ2, in:

U1 = u[C1(1)] + u[(C1(2)]/(1+ρ1), U2 = u[C2(1)] + u[(C2(2)]/(1+ρ2), ρ1 = ρ2.

(You may set N=1 to simplify your expositions if you wish to do so.)
The equilibrium is now determinable.

(a)  Describe graphically, and/or mathematically, and/or literally, how Irving Fisher or any modern economist would determine the equilibrium for:

C1(1)*, C1(2)*, C2(1)*, C2(2)*, K(2)*; r*, the rate of interest between period 1 and 2. (Hint: Will women lend to men or borrow from them?)

(b)  Very briefly, modify your above answer to show what will happen when men are more “impatient” than women, so that ρ1 > ρ2.

  1. Prove that fair-game investing or gambling will (a) be avoided by what class of people?; (b) be embraced by what class of people? How do you reconcile under (a) the purchases of insurance at unfavorable-game premiums?
  1. Lerner, Lange, and others wish to utilize market pricing in achieving maximization of a social welfare function appropriate to a socialist state where (a) all non-labor inputs are owned by the State; (b) “people’s changing tastes are to count,” (c) where the bureaucrats responsible for the different industries do not necessarily in every case face constant returns to scale and classical returns.

Describe how goods and services should be priced, how people’s total spendable incomes are to be determined, and also any special problems that might arise for the Lerner-Lange-Smith VISIBLE HAND.

  1. Bentham says that people may differ in the heights of their marginal utility from the same number of chocolates (or real incomes). But he believes that this difference in intensities of enjoyments is distributed “in about the same way among the very rich and the very poor.” What kind of income tax formula would he then presumably want to legislate? What “incentive effects” would you want to keep in mind appraising this solution?

Source: Personal copies

Image Source: Left to right: Robert C. Merton, Jerome Bert Wiesner and Paul A. Samuelson with Vol. 3 of Samuelson’s Collected Scientific Papers (1972). MIT Webmuseum.

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Harvard. Readings list for Commercial Crises Course by Persons, 1923

 

 

Warren M. Persons was an index number cruncher in the tradition of Irving Fisher and Wesley Clair Mitchell. As a guest professor at Harvard from Colorado College, he taught a course on the theory of business cycles (Economics 35) during the Winter term of the academic year 1916-17. Later as a member of the Harvard economics faulty and researcher with the Harvard Economic Service, he taught the course “Commercial Crises” (Economics 37) 1919-20, through 1926-27 that was attended primarily by graduate students.

Following an item from the Harvard Catalogue of its Officers and Graduates and a clipping from the Harvard Crimson about the Harvard Economic Service, I provide enrollment data for the course from 1923-24 when Frank Whitson Fetter (see his papers at Rubenstein Library, Duke University) attended. From Fetter’s handwritten course notes I have assembled a bibliography of items (with links to almost all references!) mentioned or assigned by Warren Persons. The final examination questions for the course have been transcribed in a later posting.

Note: The following three published items by (or edited by) Persons are relevant to the course content.

Persons, Warren M. “Books on Business Cycles: Mitchell, Aftalion, Bilgram.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 28, no. 4 (1914): 795-810. .

The Problem of Business Forecasting, ed. by Warren M. Persons, William Trufant Foster and Albert J. Hettinger, Jr. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924.

Persons, Warren M. “Theories of Business Fluctuations.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 41, no. 1 (1926): 94-128. .

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Warren Milton Persons; S.B. Univ. Wis. 1899; Ph.D. Colorado Coll. 1912, Univ. Wis. 1915; Dean (Dept. of Business Administration and Banking) and Prof. of Economics and Finance, Colorado Coll. 1913-1918; Lectr. on Economics 1917; Prof. of Economics 1919—; Statistician of the Committee on Economic Research 1917-1919.

Source: Harvard University. Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates, 1636-1920, p. 100.

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REPLACES GUESS WORK BY ACCURATE FORECASTS

Harvard Economic Service Has Been of Great Value to Business, Experts Declare at Fifth Annual Conference

Harvard Crimson, October 22, 1923

The application of a scientific review of economic statistics to business concerns of the United States during the past five years, and its possible application to national and international affairs in the future, were the chief topics discussed on Saturday night at the fifth annual conference of the Harvard University Commitee on Economic Research, at a dinner held in the Harvard Club of Boston. After the dinner a group of speakers prominent in business and in economic research addressed the 200 subscribers to the Harvard Economic Service who were present.

After a brief introductory address by President Lowell, in which he commended the members of the committee for their service in developing economics from an inexact to an exact science. Professors Warren M. Persons and Charles J. Bullock, both of the committee, spoke, describing the growth and development of the Bureau of Economic Research at Harvard.

Persons Discusses Business Cycles

Professor Persons first described the theory of recurring business cycles, on which the Harvard Economic Service is based. Perpetual change, he showed, is an inherent feature of modern industrial enterprise. Prices rise and fall; markets expand and contract; production increases and decreases; orders accumulate beyond capacity and then seem to vanish altogether.

And yet, he said, the course of business is not purely fortuitous or haphazard. By studying the price movements in the United States for the past 20 years, an index of trade for the United States has been obtained. This chart reveals a well defined ebb and flow of prosperity and depression. First comes a period of business depression, then a recovery; this is followed by a period of prosperity followed by financial strain, which ultimately brings about a financial crisis. These five phases, each leading into the other, are known as the business cycle.

“In 1915,” he said, “the Harvard Economics Department started to investigate statistical data concerning past business cycles. From this data we were able to make accurate generalizations concerning past business cycles and inferences for the future.”

Discusses Development of Service

Professor Bullock showed how the Harvard Economic Service has developed during the past five years, and cited the increase in its number of subscribers to show its increasing value to the business houses of the United States.

“The old haphazard methods of business belong to the prehistoric ages of five years ago when we were in the business wilderness,” next declared Mr. Howard Coonley ’98, president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and of the Walworth Manufacturing Company. He said that since he had discovered that the sales of the Walworth Company followed almost precisely the sales graphs prepared by the Harvard Economic Service, his company had been able to discard the old uncertain method of irregular production. By following the Harvard forecast, they had been able to estimate sales for each phase of the business cycle, and plan their production and financial programs accordingly.”

“The Economic Service,” he said, “gives a perspective to business. It is an executive airplane that enables a man to see his business from afar in relation to other businesses, and deal with it accordingly.”

Turning from the past accomplishments of the Economic Service, the remaining speakers developed the further possibilities of a Bureau of Economic Research.

Mr. Jesse Isidor Straus ’93, president of R. H. Macy and Company, urged the application of the economic study of statistics to legislative problems of the country. A study he said of the economic effects of tariff and taxation on commerce might produce results that would cause even Congress to give heed to the findings of the Harvard Research Bureau in preparing its legislation.

Professor Thomas N. Carver, chairman of the Department of Economics at the University also spoke of the need of conducting national affairs by cientific economic principles.

“Already,” he said, “two great countries of the world are on the rocks largely because the men in control were illiterates in economics.

Professor Bullock, the concluding speaker, emphasized the importance of the international study of economic statistics. He said that a research bureau similar to that at Harvard had already been established by London and Cambridge Universities, and that one would soon be started at the Institute of Statistics of the University of Paris. By the cooperation of these three bureaus, he said he hoped that long strides would be taken towards a better understanding of economics and business conditions throughout the world.

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Enrollment in Economics 37, Commercial Crises 1923-24

[Economics] 37 1hf. Professor Persons.—Commercial Crises.

Total 22: 16 graduates, 2 Seniors, 1 Junior, 2 Radcliffe, 1 Graduate School of Business

 

Harvard University. Report of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard College, 1923-24. p. 107.

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Course Bibliography for Economics 37
Harvard University, First Term, 1923-24

Persons
Business Cycles (37)
1923-1924

Oct. 2

**Business Cycles and Unemployment. Report and Recommendations of a Committee of the President’s Conference on Unemployment, including an Investigation made under the Auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1923. Includes Wesley Clair Mitchell (ed.), “The Relation of Business Cycles to Unemployment” with articles by many economists.

*Mitchell, Wesley Clair—Business Cycles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1913.

Burton, Theodore E.—Financial Crises and Periods of Industrial and Commercial Depression. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920.

Hull, George H.—Industrial Depressions, their Causes Analysed and Classified with a Practical Remedy for such as Result from Industrial Derangements, or Iron the Barometer of Trade. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911.

Hawtrey, Ralph George—Good and Bad Trade: An Inquiry into the Causes of Trade Fluctuations. London: Constable & Company Limited, 1913.

*Robertson, Dennis Holme—A Study of Industrial Fluctuation: An Enquiry into the Character and Causes of the so-called Cyclical Movements of Trade. London: P.S. King & Son, Ltd., 1915.

*Moore, Henry Ludwell—Economic Cycles: Their Law and Cause. New York: Macmillan, 1914.

Review of Economic Cycles: their Law and Cause by Henry Ludwell Moore.
Persons, Warren M. The American Economic Review 5, no. 3 (1915): 645-48.

Review of Economic Cycles: their Law and Cause by Henry Ludwell Moore.
Persons, Warren M. Publications of the American Statistical Association 14, no. 111 (1915): 695-98.

*Aftalion, Albert (2 vol.)—Les Crises Périodiques de Surproduction. Paris: Livrairie des Sciences Politiques et Sociales, Marcel Rivière et Companie, 1913. Volume IVolume II.

*Veblen, Thorstein—The Theory of Business Enterprise. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904.

Bilgram, Hugo and Louis Edward Levy—The Cause of Business Depressions as Disclosed by an Analysis of the Basic Principles of Economics. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1914.

King, Willford Isbell—Employment, Hours, and Earnings in Prosperity and Depression, United States, 1920-1922. New York: NBER, 1923.

Foster, William T. and Waddill Catchings—Money. Publications of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, No. 2. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.

H.B. Hastings—Costs and Profits: their Relations to Business Cycles. Publications of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, No. 3. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.

*Lavington, F.—The Trade Cycle. An Account of the Causes Producing Rhythmical Changes in the Activity of Business. London: P. S. King & Son, 1922.

Edie, Lionel D. (ed.)—The Stabilization of Business. New York, Macmillan, 1923.

Jordan, David F.—Business Forecasting. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1921.

Pell, Charles Edward—The Riddle of Unemployment and its Solution. London: Cecil Palmer, 1922.

Klein, Philip—The Burden of Unemployment. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1923.

Moore, Henry Ludwell. “Generating Cycles of Products and Prices.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 35, no. 2 (1921): 215-39.

Moore, Henry Ludwell. “Generating Cycles Reflected in a Century of Prices.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 35, no. 4 (1921): 503-26.

Moore, Henry Ludwell. “The Origin of the Eight-Year Generating Cycle.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 36, no. 1 (1921): 1-29.

Ingraham, Mark H. “On Professor H. L. Moore’s Mathematical Analysis of the Business Cycle.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 18, no. 142 (1923): 759-65.

Frank, Lawrence K. “A Theory of Business Cycles.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 37, no. 4 (1923): 625-42.

Oct. 4

Bullock, Charles J. “Prefatory Statement.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 1, no. 1 (1919).
“General Considerations and Assumptions.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 1, no. 1 (1919): 6-8.
“Measurement of Secular Trend.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 1, no. 1 (1919): 8-18.

Oct. 9

Moore, Henry Ludwell. Generating Economic Cycles. New York, 1923.

Oct. 11

Persons, Warren M. “The Revised Index of General Business Conditions.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 5, no. 3 (1923): 187-95.

Oct. 16

Persons, Warren M., and Eunice S. Coyle. “A Commodity Price Index of Business Cycles.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 3, no. 11 (1921): 353-69.

Oct. 18

Frickey, Edwin. “An Index of Industrial Stock Prices.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 3, no. 8 (1921): 264-77.

Maxwell, W. Floyd, and Ada M. Matthews. “A Monthly Index of Bond Yields, 1919-23.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 5, no. 3 (1923): 212-17.

Oct. 23

Persons, Warren M. “An Index of Trade for the United States.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 5, no. 2 (1923): 71-78.

Day, Edmund E. “Cyclical Fluctuations of the Volume of Manufacture.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 5, no. 1 (1923): 30-60.

Day, Edmund E. “The Physical Volume of Production in the United States for 1922.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 5, no. 3 (1923): 196-211.

Day, Edmund E. “An Index of the Physical Volume of Production: I. Agriculture, 1879-1920.” The Review of Economics and Statistics2, no. 9 (1920): 246-59.

Day, Edmund E. “An Index of the Physical Volume of Production: II. Mining, 1879-1919.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 2, no. 10 (1920): 287-99.

Day, Edmund E., and Warren M. Persons. “An Index of the Physical Volume of Production: III. Manufacture, 1899-1919.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 2, no. 11 (1920): 309-37.

Day, Edmund E. “An Index of the Physical Volume of Production: III. Manufacture, 1889-1912 (concluded).” The Review of Economics and Statistics 2, no. 12 (1920): 361-67.

Day, Edmund E. “An Index of the Physical Volume of Production: IV. Agriculture, Mining, and Manufacturing Combined, 1899-1919.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 3, no. 1 (1921): 19-22.

Oct. 30

Persons, Warren M. “II. The Method Used.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 1, no. 2 (1919): 117-39.

Nov. 20
Bibliography for reports:

Dewey, Davis Rich—Financial History of The United States (5th ed.). New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1915.

Lincoln, Edmond E. List of References in Economics 2. Economic History of Europe since 1800, and of the United States (Revised, Enlarged, and Rearranged). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1920.

Sumner, William Sumner—A History of Banking in the United States. Vol. I in A History of Banking in All the Leading Nations. New York: Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, 1896.

Davis, Joseph Stancliffe—Essays in Earlier History of American Corporations. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1917. Volume I;  Volume II.

Holdsworth, John Thom—The First Bank of the United States. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1910.

Callender, G. S. “The Early Transportation and Banking Enterprises of the States in Relation to the Growth of Corporations.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 17, no. 1 (1902): 111-62.

Dec. 11

1923 Harvard Ph.D. Thesis by Joseph L. Snider directed by Warren M. Persons.

Snider, Joseph L. “Wholesale Prices in the United States, 1866-91.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 6, no. 2 (1924): 93-118.

THEORIES OF BUSINESS CYCLES

Oral reports were presented on the theories of the following authors:

Dec. 18

Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of Business Enterprise. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904.

  1. Alford
  2. Allen
  3. Fetter

Dec. 20

See Veblen’s new book:

Veblen, Thorstein. Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America. New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1923.

Jan. 3

Hobson, John A. Economics of Unemployment. London: George Allen & Unwin. 1922.
ch 5, pp. 73-83; ch 10, pp. 146-151.

Commons, John R. “Hobson’s “Economics of Unemployment” The American Economic Review 13, no. 4 (1923): 638-47.

  1. Gilbert, D.W.
  2. Maxwell
  3. Nakakawagu [Tseng]

Jan. 5

*Aftalion, Albert (2 vol.). Les Crises Périodiques de Surproduction. Paris: Livrairie des Sciences Politiques et Sociales, Marcel Rivière et Companie, 1913. Volume IVolume II.

  1. Gilbert, R. V.
  2. Stern [Sherrin?]
  3. Silbert

Jan. 8

Bouniatian, Mentor. Les Crises Économiques: Essai de Morphologie et Théorie des Crises Économiques Périodiques et de Théorie de la Conjuncture Économique. Paris. Marcel Giard, 1922.

  1. Smith, W.B.
  2. Taber
  3. Woolfson

Jan.10

Hawtrey, Ralph George. Good and Bad Trade: An Inquiry into the Causes of Trade Fluctuations. London: Constable & Company Limited, 1913.

Hawtrey, Ralph George. Monetary Reconstruction. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923.

Keynes, J. M. “Review of Currency and Credit by R. G. Hawtrey.” The Economic Journal 30, no. 119 (1920): 362-65.

Article by Mitchell reviewing business in 1923 in annual number of N.Y. Evening Post.

  1. Opie
  2. Smith, D.B.

Jan. 12

Hawtrey, Ralph George. Currency and Credit. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919.  ch 9 + 10.

Young, Allyn A. “Hawtrey, Currency and Credit; Fisher, Stabilizing the Dollar.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 34, no. 3 (1920): 520-32.

Report by Taber on:

Foster, William T. and Waddill Catchings—Money. Publications of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, No. 2. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.

Jan. 15

Robertson, Dennis Holme. A Study of Industrial Fluctuation: An Enquiry into the Character and Causes of the so-called Cyclical Movements of Trade. London: P.S. King & Son, Ltd., 1915.

  1. Silbert
  2. Stern
  3. Smith, W.B.

Jan. 15

Mitchell, Wesley Clair. Business Cycles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1913: ch. 14.

  1. Taber
  2. Miss Bacon
  3. Miss Freudenthal

Jan. 17, 19, 22

The Methods of Stabilization of Industry as outlined in:
Business Cycles and Unemployment. Report and Recommendations of a Committee of the President’s Conference on Unemployment, including an Investigation made under the Auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1923.

 

Jan. 22
[appears to be suggestions for final examination preparation]

See Day’s article in Jan. 1923 Review [1].

Know statistical analysis used in Harvard method; lag, sequence of movements, correlation between different indices, etc. etc.

British business conditions, June 1922 [2] and Oct 1923 Supplement [3]. Index of Physical Production of Manufactures. Articles for Feb. 1921 [4], Dec. 1921 [5] and Oct. 1923 [6] for relation between production and price fluctuations.

It here typical business cycle, do crises and financial panics always occur; international nature.

Extended knowledge of author treated and general knowledge of all authors.—Present status of subject and its probably developments, a philosophy of the subject of business cycles.

Methods of forecasting. The three curves and their relations.— [7] Mitchell’s book. Ch. 6 by King is important contribution P. says.

Index of Trade—April, 1923  [8].

 

[1] Day, Edmund E. “Cyclical Fluctuations of the Volume of Manufacture.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 5, no. 1 (1923): 30-60.

[2a] Bowley, Arthur L. “An Index of British Economic Conditions: 1919-22.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 4 (1922): 145-56.

[2b] Persons, Warren M., Norman J. Silberling, and William A. Berridge. “An Index of British Economic Conditions: 1903-14.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 4 (1922): 157-75.

 [3]  “[An Index of British Economic Conditions: 1903-14]: Appendix.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 4 (1922): 176-89.

 [4] “Physical Production in 1920.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 3, no. 2 (1921): 37-39.

 [5] Persons, Warren M. “The Iron and Steel Industry During Business Cycles.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 3, no. 12 (1921): 378-83.

 [6] Blackett, O. W. “Pig Iron and Scrap Prices during Business Cycles.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 5, no. 4 (1923): 272-78.

 [7] Business Cycles and Unemployment. Report and Recommendations of a Committee of the President’s Conference on Unemployment, including an Investigation made under the Auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1923. Includes Wesley Clair Mitchell (ed.), “The Relation of Business Cycles to Unemployment” with articles by many economists.

 [8] Persons, Warren M. “An Index of Trade for the United States.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 5, no. 2 (1923): 71-78.

 

Source: Duke University, Rubenstein Library. Frank Whitson Fetter Papers, Box 49, Folder “Student Papers, Graduate Courses (Harvard University) Ec 37—Corporation Finance Notes, Report 1923-24.”

Image Source: Harvard Class Album, 1920.

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Economic History Harvard Suggested Reading Syllabus

Harvard. Economic History of Europe Since 1800. Edmund E. Lincoln, 1920.

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This post provides a transcription of over thirty printed pages from the List of References in Economics 2 at Harvard published in 1920 by Edmund Earle Lincoln (1888-1958). These pages include all the bibliographic references for the first semester course “Economic History of Europe since 1800” along with an introductory note and a short list of titles recommended for students who wish to build a personal library in European and U.S. economic history. The final examination questions and a course description have also been transcribed. The list of references for Economics 2b, “Economic History of the United States” will be posted sometime in the near future.

Edmund Earle Lincoln was born February 5, 1888 in McCook, Nebraska. He received an A.B. from Ohio Wesleyan in 1909; a B.A. from Oxford in 1910; M. A. from Oxford in 1914; Ph.D. from Harvard in 1917 with the thesis, “The Results of Municipal Electric Lighting in Massachusetts.” He was appointed Instructor in Economics and Tutor at Harvard in 1915 (where he stayed at least until the 1920 U.S. Census). As of the 1930 U.S. Census Lincoln worked as an executive with International Telephone & Telegraph Co. in New York City. From 1931 to his retirement in 1953 Lincoln was an economist with E. I. Du Pont Nemours & Co. He died May 15, 1958 in Wilmington, Delaware.

Apparently his 1950 published translation of Dangers of Inflation: An Address by Pierre Samuel du Pont, 1790, is still available from the Harvard Business School for $20 as Kress Collection Publication No. 7.

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Economics 2: Course Enrollment, 1920-21

[Economics] 2a 1hf. Dr. E. E. Lincoln, assisted by Mr. Hyde.–European Industry and Commerce in the Nineteenth Century

Total 70: 18 Graduates, 8 Seniors, 17 Juniors, 11 Sophomores, 1 Freshman, 15 Others.

[Economics] 2b 2hf. Dr. E. E. Lincoln, assisted by Mr. Hyde.–Economic History of the United States.

Total: 148: 13 Graduates, 34 Seniors, 47 Juniors, 26 Sophomores, 3 Freshmen, 25 Others.

Source: Harvard University. Reports of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard College 1920-21, p. 95.

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LIST OF REFERENCES IN ECONOMICS 2
ECONOMIC HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE 1800,
AND OF THE UNITED STATES

Revised, Enlarged, and Rearranged

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
PUBLISHED BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY
1920

 

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The following list of readings is a rearrangement, revision and extension of the references originally prepared by Professor E. F. Gay for use in connection with the courses in European and American Economic History at Harvard College. The changes and additions have been such as to make this practically a new list. It in no way purports to be a complete bibliography of the subject, nor is it necessarily definitive in form. It is intended simply to serve as a guide to reading on the topics of the course, especially on those subjects which are not covered by the lectures, and should prove particularly useful to graduate students who wish to pursue their studies independently.

The aim has been to include only the more authoritative readings on a given topic, though on such questions as are admittedly mooted an attempt is made to cite the more representative writers on either side. Occasionally, also, in lieu of any work treating of a given subject in a more satisfactory manner, books have been listed of which the compiler thoroughly disapproves. In such cases, however, there are good reasons for the inclusion: As the list is itself a careful selection, it does not seem necessary for present purposes to add critical comments on the various authors.

Each section (indicated by Roman numerals) maps out a week’s work. The required reading for the present year (tested by means of fortnightly papers) is marked with an asterisk. There has, however, been such an arrangement of topics that the requirements can readily be varied from year to year. The bibliographies cited at the end of each section give further references on the topics under discussion; they are also useful as starting points in the thesis work of the course.

Edmond E. Lincoln, M.A. (Oxon), Ph.D.

 

SUGGESTIONS TO STUDENTS

Although no text-books are required in the course, most of the books in which reading is assigned are recommended for purchase by those who wish to start a library on the subject, and the following titles are suggested for those who desire to purchase a few inexpensive and rather general but thoroughly useful books:

Economics 2a
(European Economic History in the last century.)

Ashley, P., Modern Tariff History (ed. 1910).

Ashley, W. J., Economic Organization of England.

Ashley, W. J., British Industries.

Barker, J. Ellis, Economic Statesmanship (ed. 1920).

Dawson, W. H., The Evolution of Modern Germany.

Day, Clive, History of Commerce. (Useful also in Economics 2b. Good bibliography.)

Hobson, J. A., Evolution of Modern Capitalism.

Marshall, A., Industry and Trade.

Morley, Life of Cobden.

Ogg, Economic Development of Modern Europe. (Bibliography at end of each chapter.)

Perris, G. H., The Industrial History of Modern England.

Prothero, R. E., English Farming, Past and Present.

Raper, Railroad Transportation. (Useful also in Economics 2b.)

Robinson, E. van D., Commercial Geography; or Smith, J. R. Commerce and Industry. (Useful also in Economics 2b.)

Toynbee, Industrial Revolution.

Usher, A. P., Introduction to the Industrial History of England.

Wallace, D. M., Russia (ed. 1912).

 

Economics 2b
(Economic History of the United States.)

Bishop and Keller, Industry and Trade.

Bogart, Economic History of the United States. (“Selected Readings” by Bogart and Thompson is also useful.)

Callender, Economic History of the United States. (Selected readings before 1860.)

Dewey, Financial History of the United States. (Bibliography.)

Jenks and Clark, The Trust Problem.

Johnson and Van Metre, Principles of Railroad Transportation.

Noyes, Forty Years of American Finance.

Taussig, Some Aspects of the Tariff Question.

Taussig, Tariff History (ed. 1914).

 

General Bibliographical Aids in Thesis Writing

American Economic Review (Contains conveniently classified lists of recent books and magazine articles from 1911 to date. Earlier lists are to be found in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1886-1907, and the Economic Bulletin, 1908-1911.

Catalogue of Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900; and Decennial Supplement, 1901-1910.

Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), Bibliographies.

Harvard College Library, Subject Catalogue by names of countries.

Library of Congress, Bibliographies on special topics.

Poole’s Index of Periodical Literature.

Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (1900-).

University of Chicago, Bibliography of Economics.

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ECONOMICS 2a
FIRST HALF-YEAR

ECONOMIC HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE 1800

SUGGESTIONS TO STUDENTS AND AIDS TO THESIS WORK IN ECONOMICS 2a

 

Official Publications

Annuaire Statistique.

Berichte über Handel und Industrie.

Parliamentary Papers, particularly Commercial Reports (annual); Statistical Abstract of Foreign Countries.

Statistisches Jahrbuch.

U. S. Dept. Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Statistics, Statistical Abstract of Foreign Countries (1909).

U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Consular Reports (formerly published by the State Department); Special Agent’s Series, and Bulletins.

 

Periodicals

Annual Register.

Archiv für Socialwissenschaft und Socialpolitik.

Bankers’ Magazine (London).

Economic Journal.

Journal des Économistes.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.

London Economist. (A weekly financial paper, well indexed, with valuable information on commercial and industrial subjects.)

London Times, with Russian and South American Supplements.

Revue d’ Économie Politique.

Schriften des Vereins fur Socialpolitik.

 

Encyclopedias, Yearbooks, Dictionaries, etc.

Bartholomew, J. G., Atlas of the World’s Commerce.

Dictionary of National Biography.

Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.).

Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaft.

Jahrbücher fur Nationalökonomie.

McCulloch, Commercial Dictionary (ed. 1856).

Palgrave, Dictionary of Political Economy (including 1909 supplement).

Statesman’s Year-Book.

Wörterbuch der Volkswirtschaft (ed. Elster).

 

General Books

Bland, Brown, and Tawney, English Economic History: Select Documents.

Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce, Part 2, Vols. II, III. (A carefully arranged, exhaustive bibliography at the end of Vol. III.)

Dawson, Evolution of Modern Germany.

Day, History of Commerce. (Useful bibliography with each chapter.)

Levasseur, Histoire des Classes Ouvrières en France depuis 1789; Questions Ouvrières et Industriélles en France sous la Troisième République.

Levi, L., History of British Commerce, 1763-1878.

Macpherson, D., Annals of Commerce, Vol. IV.

Mavor, Economic History of Russia.

Page, Commerce and Industry. (Based on Hansard’s Debates. Vol. II,’ ‘Tables of Statistics for the British Empire from 1815,” is useful.

Porter, Progress of the Nation. (Hirst edition, 1912. Contains some interesting data for Great Britain.)

Smart, Economic Annals of the Nineteenth Century, Vols. I and II, 1801-1830. (A convenient digest of economic materials in annuals and official publications of the time.)

Smith, J. R., Industrial and Commercial Geography.

Sombart, Die deutsche Volkswirtschaft im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert.

Traill, ed., Social England. (Includes contributions by leading authorities on economics and economic history. Vols. V, VI cover the period of this course. Useful bibliography with each chapter.)

Wallace. D. M., Russia (ed. 1912. Still probably the best general book on Russian economic conditions.)

Webb, Trade Unionism (ed. 1911); Industrial Democracy. (These two volumes contain the best bibliographies on English labor problems.)

Williams, J. B., Guide to English Social History, 1750-1850. (Contains some useful though frequently inaccurate bibliographies.)

 

Text-Books

Economic histories of England are legion. Among these may be mentioned the following:

Perris, G. H., The Industrial History of Modern England (covers the period of this course); Rogers, J. E. T., Industrial and Commercial History of England; Tickner, Social and Industrial History of England; Usher, Introduction to the Industrial History of England; Warner, G. T., Landmarks in English Industrial History.

Probably Dawson’s Evolution of Modern Germany and Wallace’s Russia are the most satisfactory books on these countries. Russia: Its Trade and Commerce, by Raffalovich, is a useful recent book on Russia. For more general reading, Ogg’s Economic Development of Modern Europe covers parts of the field of this course and has some useful bibliographies at the end of each chapter. Rand’s Economic History since 1763 (a collection of readings) is still of some service.

Slater, G., Making of Modern England, and Hayes, C. J. H., Political and Social History of Modern Europe, attempt to link up political and economic development.

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Required reading is indicated by an asterisk (*). Large Roman numerals indicate volumes; Arabic numerals pages. References in brackets [ ] are recommended but not required.

 

I. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

General Reading

*Hobson, Evolution of Modern Capitalism (ed. 1902), 10-82, or ed. 1910 and 1917, 30-102.

*Toynbee, Industrial Revolution (ed. 1908), 22-96.

Ashley, Economic Organization of England, 140-172.

Bücher, Industrial Evolution, 150-184, 282-314.

Cheyney, Readings in English History, 610-616.

Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce, III, 620-668.

Lewinski, L’Évolution Industrielle de la Belgique.

Mantoux, Révolution Industrielle, 179-502.

Rappard, La Révolution Industrielle en Suisse.

Traill, ed., Social England, V, 301-357.

Veblen, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution, 168-270.

Wood, H. T., Industrial England in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century.

 

The Factory System

Bland, Brown, and Tawney, English Economic History: Select Documents, 545-643.

Engels, Condition of the Working Classes in 1844.

Hutchins and Harrison, History of Factory Legislation (ed. 1911), 1-42.

Marx, Das Capital, Vol. I, passim.

Cooke-Taylor, The Modern Factory System, 44-225.

Villermé, L’État Physique et Moral des Ouvriers.

Wallas, Life of Francis Place, 197-240.

Webb, History of Trade Unionism, 24-101.

Woolen Report of 1806; reprinted in Bullock, Selected Readings in Economics, 114-124.

 

Introduction of Textile Machinery

Babbage, The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.

Chapman, The Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1-112.

Clapham, “Transference of the Worsted Industry,”Economic Journal, XX, 195-210.

Guest, R., Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture (1823).

Radcliffe, W., Origin of the New System of Manufacture (1828).

Walpole, “The Great Inventions,” in History of England, I, 50-76; reprinted in Bullock, 125-145, and Rand, Selections illustrating Economic History, ch. ii.

 

Bibliographies

Cannon, References for English History, 399-400.

Cunningham, III, 944-946, 990-996.

Hunt, W., Political History of England, 1760-1801 (Hunt and Poole Series, X), 468-469.

Traill, ed., Social England, V, 364-365, 627.

 

II. AGRARIAN MOVEMENT — CONTINENT

Germany

*Dawson, Evolution of Modern Germany, 255-294.

*Morier, “Agrarian Legislation of Prussia,” in Probyn, Land Tenure in Various Countries, 267-275; also in Rand, 98-108.

*Seeley, Life and Times of Stein, I, 287-297; in Rand, 86-98.

Brentano, “Agrarian Reform in Prussia,” Econ. Jour., VII, 1-20 (March, 1897).

Knapp, Bauernbefreiung in Preussen.

Preuss, Die wirtschaftliche und soziale Bedeutung der Stein-Hardenbergschen Reform.

Probyn, ed., Land Tenure in Various Countries, 243-287.

Von der Goltz, Agrarwesen und Agrarpolitik, 40-50; also Geschichte der deutschen Landwirtschaft.

 

France

*Dumas, “French Land System,” Econ. Jour., XIX, 32-50 (March, 1909).

*Von Sybel, French Revolution, in Rand, Selections, 55-85.

Cliffe Leslie, The Land System of France, in Carver’s Selected Readings in Rural Economics, 410-432.

De Foville, Le Morcellement, 52-89.

Flour de St. Genis, La Propriété Rurale, 80-164.

Levasseur, Histoire des Classes Ouvrières (ed. 1867), 23-42.

Young, A., Travels in France.

 

Other Countries

Chlapowski, Belgische Landwirtschaft.

Faucher, J., Russian Agrarian Legislation of 1861, in Probyn, Land Tenure in Various Countries, 309-346.

Laveleye, Économie Rurale de la Belgique.

Leroy-Beaulieu, The Empire of the Czars, I, 403-580; II, 1-57.

Mavor, Economic History of Russia, I.

Schulze-Gaevernitz, Volkswirtschaftliche Studien aus Russland, 308-383.

Simkhovitch, Feldgemeinschaft in Russland.

 

Bibliographies

Cambridge Modern History, X, 795, 884, 886.

Lavisse et Rambaud, Histoire Générale, IX, 417, 622; X, 472.

 

III. AGRARIAN MOVEMENT — ENGLAND

General Agricultural Conditions

*Prothero, R. E., English Farming Past and Present, 148-189, 207-252, 290-315.

Caird, English Agriculture in 1850, 473-528.

Curtler, Short History of English Agriculture, 190-270.

Garnier, English Landed Interests.

Levy, H., Large and Small Holdings (1911 transl.), 3-54.

Levy, Entstehung und Rückgang des landwirtschaftlichen Grossbetriebs in England.

Parliamentary Reports: 1816, Committee on Mendicity and Vagrancy; 1821, IX, Committee on Agriculture; 1822, V, Committee on Agricultural Distress.

Smart, Economic Annals of the Nineteenth Century, 1801-20, chs. vi, xx, xxii.; 1821-30, chs. i, v, x, xii.

Young, A., Tour through the Southern Counties (1768).

 

The Small Holder

Broderick, English Land and English Landlords, 65-240.

Colman, European Agriculture (2d ed.), I, 10-109, 133-174.

Green, F. E., The Small Holding.

Hasbach, History of the English Agricultural Labourer, 71-147.

Johnson, A. H., Disappearance of the Small Land Holder in England, 7-17, 107-164.

Prothero, R. E., English Farming, Past and Present, 190-206.

Taylor, Decline of the Land-owning Farmers in England, 1-61.

 

Bibliographies

Cambridge Modern History, X, 884-885.

Garnier, English Landed Interests, II, 536, 553.

Levy, H., Large and Small Holdings, 230-235.

Traill, ed., Social England, V, 513; VI, 110.

 

III. AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION AND RECENT AGRARIAN HISTORY

England and Ireland

*Prothero, R. E., English Farming Past and Present, 316-331, 346-418.

Adams, “Small Holding in the United Kingdom,” Roy. Stat. Soc. Jour., 1907, 412-437.

Arch, Autobiography, 65-144, 300-345.

Barker, E., Ireland in the Last Fifty Years, 69-141.

Bastable, “Economic Movement in Ireland,” Econ. Jour., XI, 31-42.

Besse, P., L’Agriculture en Angleterre de 1875 à nos jours.

Caird, in Ward, Reign of Queen Victoria, II, 129-153.

Caird, English Agriculture in 1850.

Curtler, Short History of English Agriculture, 271-322.

Curtis, C. E., and Gordon, Handbook upon Agricultural Tenancies.

Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, Report on Agricultural Credit in Ireland (1915).

Gray, H. L., War Time Control of Industry, 249-269, “Agriculture.”

Green, F. E., History of the English Agricultural Labourer, 1870-1920.

Haggard, Rural England, II, 536-576.

Hasbach, English Agricultural Labourer, 274-353.

Herrick, M. T., Rural Credits, 148-160.

Levy, H., Large and Small Holdings, 55-213.

Parliamentary Tariff Commission, III, Report of the Agricultural Committee, 1906.

Plunkett, Ireland in the New Century (ed. 1905), 175-209.

Royal Commission of 1897, Report on Agricultural Depression, 6-87.

Thompson, “Rent of Agricultural Land in England and Wales,” Roy. Stat. Soc. Jour., 1907, 587-611.

Turner, E. R., Ireland and England, 188-225.

 

Other Countries

Brentano, Die deutschen Getreidezölle (ed. 1911).

Chlapowski, Belgische Landwirtschaft.

Dawson, Evolution of Modern Germany, 226-293.

Ely, R. T., “Russian Land Reform,” Am. Econ. Rev., VI, 61-68.

Goulier, Commerce du Blé en France.

Haggard, Rural Denmark and its Lessons.

Herrick, M. T., Rural Credits, 34-147, 161-186.

Imbart de la Tour, Le Crise Agricole, 24-34, 127-223.

King and Okey, Italy To-day, 156-192.

Mavor, Economic History of Russia, II, 251-357.

Méline, J., Return to the Land, 83-144, 185-240.

Morman, J. B., Principles of Rural Credits, 3-141.

Rowntree, Land and Labour, Lessons from Belgium.

Simkhovitch, “Agrarian Movement in Russia,” Yale Rev., XVI, 9-38.

Wallace, D. M., Russia.

 

Bibliographies

Besse, P., L’Agriculture en Angleterre.

Cambridge Modern History, XII, 856-862, 866-867, 872-873.

Levy, Large and Small Holdings, 235-242.

Traill, ed., Social England, VI, 452.

 

V. THE FREE TRADE MOVEMENT — ENGLAND

*Armitage-Smith, G., Free Trade and its Results, (ed. 1898), 39-60, 130-163.

*Morley, Life of Cobden, chs. vi, vii, xvi.

Ashworth, Recollections of Cobden and the League, 32-64, 296-392.

Cambridge Modern History, XI, 1-21.

Cheyney, Readings in English History, 702-716.

Cunningham, Rise and Decline of the Free Trade Movement, 27-99.

Curtler, Short History of English Agriculture, 271-293.

Day, History of Commerce, 354-372.

Levi, History of British Commerce, 218-227, 261-272, 292- 303; in Rand, 207-241.

McCulloch, J. R., Dictionary of Commerce (ed. 1850), 411-449, 1272-1289.

Mongredien, History of the Free Trade Movement.

Morley, Life of Gladstone, I, 247-303, 443-476; II, 18-69.

Nicholson, J. S., History of the English Corn Laws.

Northcote, Twenty Years of Financial Policy.

Parker, Sir Robert Peel from his Private Letters, II, 522-559; III, 220-252.

Parliamentary Reports: 1840, Committee on Import Duties; 1843-1845, Commission on the Health of Towns; 1842-1843, 1863-1868, Committees on Employment of Children, Young Persons, and Women in Mines, Manufactures, and Agriculture.

Prentice, History of the Anti-Corn Law League, I, 49-77.

Schulze-Gaevernitz, Britischer Imperialismus, 243-375.

Tooke, History of Prices, 1839-1847, V, 391-457.

Trevelyan, G. M., Life of John Bright, 45-153.

 

Bibliographies

Arnauné, Le Commerce Extérieur, 199-226, notes.

Cambridge Modern History, X, 868-870; XI, 869, 871-872.

Cannon, References for English History, 423-424.

Morley, Life of Cobden (ed. 1908), II, 495-504.

N. Y. State Library, Bulletin, May, 1902, “Bibliography of the Corn Laws.”

 

VI. TARIFF HISTORY — CONTINENT

General Reading

*Ashley, P., Modern Tariff History (ed. 1910), 3-73, 359-372.

Bastable, Commerce of Nations.

Day, History of Commerce, 342-352, 391-417.

Fisk, G. W., “Middle European Tariff Union” (Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies, November-December, 1902).

 

Germany

*Bowring, “Report on Prussian Commercial Union,” Parl. Doc., 1840, in Rand, Selections, 170-196.

Bigelow, P., German Struggle for Liberty, III, ch. 17.

Dawson, W. H., Protection in Germany.

Lang, Hundert Jahre Zollpolitik, 168-230.

Weber, W., Der Deutsche Zollverein.

Worms, L’Allemagne Économique, 57-393.

 

France

Amé, Les Tarifs de Douanes, I, 21-34, 219-316.

Arnauné, Le Commerce Extérieur et les Tarifs de Douane, 90-269.

Meredith, H. O., Protection in France.

Morley, Life of Cobden, ch. xxix.

Perigot, Histoire du Commerce Français, 77-185.

 

Bibliographies

Ashley, P., Modern Tariff History (ed. 1910), 165-166, 437-438.

Cambridge Modern History, X, 832; XI, 878.

Lavisse et Rambud, Histoire Générale, X, 472, 668.

 

VII. RECENT TARIFF HISTORY

Return to Protection; France and Germany

*U. S. Tariff Commission, Reciprocity and Commercial Treaties, 461-510.

Ashley, P., Modern Tariff History (ed. 1910), 80-121, 145-154, 373-436.

Arnauné, Le Commerce Extérieur, 247-350.

Dawson, Protection in Germany, 26-160.

Dijol, La France sous la Régime Protectionniste de 1892.

Meredith, Protection in France, 54-129.

Zimmermann, Deutsche Handelspolitik, 218-314.

 

English Controversy; Imperial Federation

*Ashley, W. J., Tariff Problem, 114-167.

Armitage-Smith, Free Trade Movement and its Results, 188-203.

Balfour, Economic Notes in Insular Free Trade, 1-32; Fiscal Reform, 71-95, 97-113, 266-280.

Caillard, V. H. P., Imperial Fiscal Reform.

Chamberlain, Imperial Union and Tariff Reform, 19-44.

Coates, G., Tariff Reform Employment and Imperial Unity.

Cunningham, Rise and Decline of the Free Trade Movement, 100-168.

Drage, G., Imperial Organization of Trade.

Marshall, Fiscal Policy of International Trade, 30-82.

Pigou, Protective and Preferential Import Duties, 1-117. (See also his Riddle of the Tariff, 1-107.)

Root, J. W., Trade Relations of British Empire.

Smart, Return to Protection, 27-44, 136-185.

Tariff Reform League, Speakers’ Handbook.

 

Bibliographies

U. S. Library of Congress, Foreign Tariffs (1906); British Tariff Movement (1904).

Cambridge Modern History, XI, 878, 969; XII, 872.

Lavisse et Rambaud, Histoire Générale, XII, 788.

 

VIII. COMMERCE AND SHIPPING

England

*Bowley, England’s Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century, (ed. 1905), 55-96, 141-147.

*Grosvenor, G. M., Government Aid to Merchant Shipping, 45-61, 75-86, 135-165.

Bourne, S., Trade, Population, and Food.

Cornewall-Jones, British Merchant Service, 252-260, 306-317.

Ginsburg,”British Shipping,” in Ashley, British Industries, 173-195.

Glover, “Tonnage Statistics of the Decade, 1891-1900,” Roy. Stat. Soc. Jour., 1902, 1-41.

Kirkaldy, British Shipping: its History, Organization, and Importance.

Lindsay, Merchant Shipping, IV.

Meeker, History of Shipping Subsidies, 1-67, 79-95.

Porter, Progress of the Nation (Hirst, ed.), 473-546.

Root, “British Shipping Subsidies,” Atlantic Monthly, LXXXV, 385-394 (1900).

Root, J. W., Trade Relations of the British Empire.

Smith, J. Russell, Influence of the Great War on Shipping, 153-184, 244-265.

Smith, J. R., The Ocean Carrier.

Taylor, “British Merchant Marine,” Forum, XXX, 463-477 (1900-1901).

U- S. Dept. of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Statistics, Statistical Abstract of Foreign Countries (1909).

Ward, T. H., Reign of Queen Victoria, II, 111-118.

 

Other Countries

Arnauné, Le Commerce Extérieur, 425-460.

Austin, O. P., Effects of the War on World Trade and Industry.

Bracq, J. C., France under the Republic, ch. 3.

Charles-Roux, L’Isthme et le Canal de Suez, II, 287-339.

Dawson, Evolution of Modern Germany, 65-74.

Hauser, H., Germany’s Commercial Grip on the World.

Le Roux de Bretagne, Les Primes à la Marine Marchande, 93-224.

Marx, A., Französische Handelsgesetzgebung.

Snow, C. D., Germany’s Foreign Trade Organization (U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, miscellaneous series, no. 57).

Von Halle, Volks-und Seewirtschaft, 136-219.

 

Bibliographies

Cambridge Modern History, XII, 872-873.

Day, History of Commerce, 380, 398, 407-408, 417.

Lavisse et Rambaud, Histoire Générale, X, 472.

Van der Borght, Handel und Handelspolitik.

 

IX. TRANSPORTATION — PRIVATE OWNERSHIP

*Cunningham, W. J., “Characteristics of British Railways,” New Eng. R.R. Club, 8-60.

*Hadley, Railroad Transportation, 187-202.

*Raper, Railway Transportation, 14-60.

 

General Reading

Hendrick, Railway Control by Commissions, chs. ii, vii.

Johnson, American Railway Transportation, 322-334.

Parliamentary Papers, Reports of Board of Trade Railway Conference: 1909, Germany, Austria, and Hungary; 1910, Belgium, France, and Italy.

Sterne, “Railway Systems in Europe,” U. S. Sen. Misc. Doc., 66, II, 1886-1887.

U. S. Industrial Commission, Report, IX, 946-949, 955-957.

 

England

Acworth, Railways of England, 1-56.

Acworth, Elements of Railway Economics, 61-74, 131-159.

Cohn, G., Englische Eisenbahnpolitik.

Dixon, F. H., and Parmelee, War Administration of the Railroads in the United States and Great Britain, 71-127.

Edwards, “Railways and the Trade of Great Britain,” Roy. Stat. Soc. Jour., 1908, 102-131.

Evans, A. D., “British Railways and Goods Traffic,” Econ. Jour., 1905, 37-46.

Forbes and Ashford, Our Waterways, 107-177, 215-252.

Francis, J., History of the English Railway.

Gordon, W. J., Our Railways.

Gray, H. L., War Time Control of Industry, 1-13, “The Railways.”

Grindling, “British Railways as Business Enterprises,” in Ashley, British Industries, 151-172.

Jackman, W. T., The Development of Transportation in Modern England, particularly II.

Johnson and Van Metre, Principles of Railroad Transportation, 385-414.

McDermott, Railways, 1-149.

McLean, “English Railway and Canal Commission of 1888,” Quar. Jour. Econ., XX, 1-55 (1905); also in Ripley, Railway Problems, 602-649 (ed. 1907).

Moulton, Waterways versus Railways, 98-169.

Porter, Progress of the Nation (ed. 1851), 287-339.

Pratt, Railways and their Rates, 1-184.

Protheroe, E., The Railways of the World, 1-528.

Stephens, E. C., English Railways; their Development and their Relation to the State.

Thompson, H. G., Canal System of England, 1-73.

Ward, Reign of Queen Victoria, II, 83-129.

France

Buckler, “Railway Regulation in France,” Quar. Jour. Econ., XX, 279-286 (1906); also in Ripley, Railway Problems, 652-659 (ed. 1907).

Colson, Legislation des Chemins de Fer, 3-20, 133-182.

Colson, Railway Rates and Traffic, 53-111.

Guillamot, L’Organisation des Chemins de Fer, 82-120.

Kaufmann, Die Eisenbahnpolitik Frankreichs, II, 178-284.

Leon, Fleuves, Canaux, et Chemins de Fer, 1-156.

Lucas, F., Voies de Communication de la France.

Monkswell, French Railways.

Picard, A., Traité des Chemins de Fer, 5 vols.

Raper, Railway Transportation, 61-101.

 

Bibliographies

Hadley, Railroad Transportation, 146-202, notes.

Johnson, American Railway Transportation, 334.

Lavisse et Rambaud, Histoire Générale, X, 472; XI, 876-877.

U. S. Library of Congress, Government Regulation of Railways in Foreign Countries (1905-1907).

 

X. TRANSPORTATION — STATE OWNERSHIP

General Reading

*Raper, Railway Transportation, 278-305.

Acworth, W. M., Historical Sketch of Government Ownership of Railways in Foreign Countries.

Acworth, “Relation of Railways to the State,” Econ. Jour., 1908, 501-519.

Archiv fur Eisenbahnwesen. (Best general periodical for all aspects of continental railway problems and history.)

Dunn, Government Ownership of Railways, 14-36.

Hadley, Railroad Transportation, 236-258.

Jevons, The Railways and the State.

Johnson, American Railway Transportation, 336-348.

McPherson, L. G., Transportation in Europe, 149-175.

Pratt, Railways and their Rates, 185-236; Railways and Nationalization, 1-120, 253-293.

 

Germany

*Cunningham, “Administration of the State Railways of Prussia-Hesse,” Proceedings N. Y. Railroad Club, XXIII, 3124-3127, 3146-3155.

*Raper, Railway Transportation, 134-177.

Cohn, G., “State Railway Administration in Prussia,” Jour. Pol. Econ., I, 172-192.

Dawson, Evolution of Modern Germany, ch. xi.

Johnson and Van Metre, Principles of Railroad Transportation, 415-434.

Lotz, Verkehrsentwicklung in Deutschland, 2-47, 96-142.

Lenshau, Deutsche Wasserstrassen, 9-56, 95-161.

Mayer, Geschichte und Geographie der deutschen Eisenbahnen, 3-41.

Meyer, B. H.,”Railroad Ownership in Germany, Ann. Am. Acad. Pol. Sci., X, 399-421, also in Ripley’s Railway Problems (ed. 1913), 803-825.

Meyer, H. R., Government Regulation of Railway Rates, 3-33, 69-92.

Moulton, Waterways versus Railways, 170-323.

 

Other Countries

*Holcombe, A. N., “The First Decade of the Swiss Federal Railways,” Quar. Jour. Econ., XXVI, 341-362.

Cucheval-Clarigny, “Les Chemins de Fer Italiens,” Rev. des Deux Mondes, July 1, 15, 1884.

Hadley, Railroad Transportation, 203-235.

Peschaud, “Belgian State Railways,” in Pratt, State Railways, 57-107.

Raper, Railway Transportation, 102-133.

Tajani, “Railway Situation in Italy,” Quar. Jour. Econ., XXIII, 618-651.

 

Bibliographies

Cambridge Modern History, XII, 872-873, 883-884.

U. S. Library of Congress, Government Ownership of Railroads; Railroads in Foreign Countries.

 

XI. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT: ENGLAND

*Ashley, W. J., British Industries, 2-38.

*Clapham, J. H., Woollen and Worsted Industry, 1-24, 125-173.

Ashley, W. J., Adjustment of Wages, 185-229, 268-311.

Chapman, S. J., The Lancashire Cotton Industry.

Cox, British Industries under Free Trade, 2-84, 142-175, 235-276.

Gray, H. L., War Time Control of Industry, 61-100, “The Coal Mines.”

Great Britain: Coal Industry Commission (1919), Interim Report and Final Report (“Sankey Report”).

Great Britain: Final Report of the Committee on Commercial and Industrial Policy after the War, Parl. Doc. 9035 (1918).

Helm, E., “Survey of the Cotton Industry,” Quar. Jour. Econ., XVII, 417-437.

Jeans, J. S., Iron Trade of Great Britain, 1-72, 100-111.

Jevons, H. S., The British Coal Trade.

Jones, J. H., The Tinplate Industry.

Lloyd, Cutlery Trades, 30-63, 171-208.

Macrosty, Trusts and the State.

Marshall, A., Industry and Trade, 32-106.

Pollock, Shipbuilding Industry.

Porter, Progress of the Nation (Hirst, ed.), 213-432.

Schoenhof, History of Money and Prices, 148-173, 215-323.

Spicer, A. D., Paper Trade.

U. S. Dept. Commerce and Labor, English Cotton Industry (1907); British Iron and Steel Industry (1909).

Ward, ed., Reign of Queen Victoria, II, 153-196 (Slagg, Cotton Trade); II, 197-238 (Bell, Iron Trade).

 

XII. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT: THE CONTINENT

General Reading

*Copeland, Cotton Manufacturing Industry, 275-332.

Beck, Die Geschichte des Eisens.

Brauns, Samt- und Seiden Industrie.

Marshall, A., Industry and Trade, 107-139.

Schultze, Die Entwicklung der chemischen Industrie.

U. S. Dept. of Commerce and Labor, Special Agents Series, 1909-13; continued in publications of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

 

Germany

*Helfferich, Germany’s Economic Progress, 1888-1913, 13-85.

Barker, J. E., Modern Germany.

Berglund, A., “The Iron Ore Problem of Lorraine,” Quar. Jour. Econ., XXXIII, 531-554.

Blondel, L’essor industriel et commercial du peuple allemande (3d ed.), 1-114, 272-412.

Dehn, R. M. P., The German Cotton Industry.

Dawson, Evolution of Modern Germany, 37-65.

Farrington, F. E., Commercial Education in Germany.

Von Halle, “Die deutsche Volkswirthschaft an der Jahrhundertwende,” Volks- und Seewirthschaft, 13-219.

Haskins and Lord, Some Problems of the Peace Conference, 117-152, “The Rhine and the Saar.”

Hauser, Germany’s Commercial Grip on the World; also Les Méthodes Allemandes d’Expansion Économique.

Howard, Recent Industrial Progress in Germany, 51-109.

Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 56-251.

Laughlin, J. L., Credit of the Nations, 1-38.

Schumacher, H., Die westdeutsche Eisenindustrie.

Sombart, Die deutsche Volkswirthschaft im neunzehnten Jahrhundert.

Sombart, “Industrial Progress of Germany,” Yale Rev., XIV, 6-17, 134-154.

Williams, E. E., “Made in Germany.”

Wolfe, A. J., Commercial Organization in Germany (U. S. Dept. of Commerce, Sp. Ag. Ser. No. 98).

 

Other Countries

Aftalion, Le Développement de la Fabrique dans les Industries de l’Habillement.

Fischer, Italien und die Italiener (ed. 1901), 240-267.

The Industries of Russia, prepared by Department of Trade and Manufactures, Ministry of Finance, St. Petersburg, for the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893.

Kennard, The Russian Year Book (1911- ).

La Belgique, 1830-1905, 397-617.

Levasseur, Questions ouvrières et industrielles en France sous la troisième République, 27-166.

Machat, Le Développement Économique de la Russie, 157-229.

Raffalovich, Russia: its Trade and Commerce.

U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Russia: A Handbook of Commercial and Industrial Conditions, (U. S. Consular Report, No. 61, 1913).

Wolfe, A. J., Commercial Organization in France (U. S. Dept. of Commerce, Sp. Ag. Ser., No. 98).

 

Bibliographies

Cambridge Modern History, XI, 931; XII, 866, 872, 883, 903, 960.

Howard, Industrial Progress in Germany, x-xiii.

U. S. Library of Congress, Iron and Steel in Commerce (1907).

 

XIII. INDUSTRIAL COMBINATION

*British Ministry of Reconstruction, Report of Committee on Trusts (1919), 15-30.

*Marshall, A., Industry and Trade, 544-635.

Baumgarten und Meszleny, Kartelle und Trusts, 83-152.

Brodnitz, “Betreibskonzentration in der englischen Industrie,” Jahrb. fur Nat. Oek., 1908-1909, XC, 173-218; XCII, 51-86, 145-184.

Carter, G. R., The Tendency toward Industrial Combination.

Chastin, Les Trusts et les Syndicats, 13-127.

Davies, J. E., Trust Laws and Unfair Competition, 529-662.

Deutsches Kartell-Jahrbuch.

Hauser, “La Syndicalisation Obligatoire en Allemagne,” Revue d’Économie Politique, XXXII, 230-265.

Kartell Rundschau.

Liefmann, Kartelle und Trusts (ed. 1910).

Liefmann, Beteiligungs- und Finanzierungsgesellschaften.

Liefmann, R., Die Kartelle in und nach dem Kriege.

Macrosty, Trust Movement in British Industry, 24-56, 81-84, 117-154, 284-307, 329-345.

Macrosty, “Trust Movement in Great Britain,” in Ashley, British Industries, 196-232.

Notz, W., “Kartels during the War,” Jour. Pol. Econ., XXVII, 1-38.

Passama, Formes Nouvelles de Concentration, 1-171.

Paul, L., Histoire du Mouvement Syndical en France (1789-1910).

Tosdal, ” Kartell Movement in the German Potash Industry,” Quar. Jour. Econ., XXVIII, 140-180.

Tosdal, “The German Steel Syndicate,” Quar. Jour. Econ., XXXI. 259-306.

Tschierschky, Kartelle und Trusts.

U. S. Industrial Commission, Report, XVIII, 7-13, 75-88, 101-122, 143-165.

U. S. Federal Trade Commission, Report on Coöperation in the American Export Trade, I, 98-127, 272-279, 285-292.

Utsch, Kartelle und Arbeiter.

Walker, Combinations in the German Coal Industry, 38-111, 175-289, 322-327.

Walker, “German Steel Syndicate,” Quar. Jour. Econ., XX, 353-398.

 

Bibliographies

Cambridge Modern History, XII, 960-961.

Carter, G. R., The Tendency toward Industrial Combination, xi-xv.

Chastin, Les Trusts, 13-127, notes.

Liefmann, Beteiligungs- und Finanzierungsgesellschaften, ix-x.

Passama, Formes Nouvelles de Concentration, xxi-xxiii.

 

XIV. BANKING AND FINANCE IN RELATION TO INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

*Hobson, C. K., Export of Capital, 95-163.

*Riesser, The German Great Banks and their Concentration, 703-750.

Andréadès, History of the Bank of England, 331-369, 381-388.

Bastable, Public Finance (3d ed.), 629-657.

Bagehot, Lombard Street (ed. 1910).

Burrell, “Historical Survey of the Position Occupied by the Bank of England,” etc., Journal of the Institute of Bankers, XXXVI (1915), 405-425.

Dunbar, History and Theory of Banking (ed. 1917), 132-219.

Giffen, Economic Inquiries, I, 75-97, 121-228.

Giffen, Growth of Capital, 115-134.

Huth, W., Die Entwickelung der deutschen und französischen Grossbanken.

Jevons, Investigations in Currency and Finance, 34-92.

Juglar, Crises Commerciales.

Liesse, Credit and Banks in France (in Nat. Mon. Com. Reports).

McLeod, Theory and Practice of Banking (4th ed.), I, 433-540; II, 1-197.

Patron, Bank of France (in Nat. Mon. Com. Reports).

Powell, E. T., The Evolution of the Money Market, 243-705.

Van Antwerp, The Stock Exchange from Within, 323-412.

Vidal, History and Methods of the Paris Bourse (in Nat. Mon. Com. Reports).

Warburg, P. M., The Discount System in Europe (in Nat. Mon. Com. Reports).

Withers, Meaning of Money, 85-106, 138-172.

Withers, War Time Financial Problems, 15-30, 76-90, 163-179.

 

 

XV. LABOR PROBLEMS

General Reading

*Cole, G. D. H., World of Labor, 101-127.

*Dawson, Evolution of Modern Germany, 106-134 [135-169].

*Hammond, M. B., British Labor Conditions and Legislation during the War, 3-21.

*Webb, “Social Movements,” in Cambridge Modern History, XII, 730-765.

Ashley, W. J., German Working Classes, 1-141.

Board of Trade Report, 1909, Cost of Living of the Working Classes in the United Kingdom, Germany, France.

Board of Trade Report, 1911, Cost of Living of the Working Classes in American Towns (comparisons with English conditions).

Booth, Life and Labor of the People in London.

Bowley, Wages in the United Kingdom, 22-57, 81-127.

Cole, “Recent Development in the British Labor Movement,” Am. Econ. Rev., VIII, 485-505.

Cole, G. D. H., The World of Labor.

Dawson, German Workman, 1-245.

Engels, Condition of the Working Class in 1844.

Gray, H. L., War Time Control of Industry, 14-60, “Munitions and Labor.”

Hammond, J. L., and Barbara, The Village Labourer (1760-1832); The Town Labourer (1760-1832); The Skilled Labourer (1760-1832).

Hammond, M. B., British Labor Conditions and Legislation during the War (passim).

Hayes, C., British Social Politics.

Herkner, Arbeiterfrage.

Hutchins, Women in Industry (ed. 1920).

Kirkup, History of Socialism.

Lecky, Democracy and Liberty, II, 224-503.

Levasseur, Questions Ouvrières et Industrielles en France, 523-600.

Macrosty, Trusts and the State (passim).

Nicholls, G., History of the English Poor Law, II, chs. xi-xii; III (supplementary vol., 1834-1898, by Thos. Mackay).

Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages (one vol. ed., 1884), 468-575.

Schloss, Methods of Industrial Remuneration.

Shadwell, Industrial Efficiency (ed. 1906), II, 307-350; or in ed. 1909, 533-568.

U. S. Commissioner of Labor, 15th Ann. Report (1900), Wages in Commercial Countries.

U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin 237, Industrial Unrest in Great Britain.

U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Monthly Labor Review, April, 1918, 63-83, “Social Reconstruction Program of the British Labor Party.”

U. S. Commission of Labor, 21st Annual Report (1906), Strikes and Lockouts, 775-916.

Wallas, G., Life of Francis Place, ch. viii.

Ward, ed., Reign of Queen Victoria, II, 43-83 (Mundella and Howell, Industrial Association).

Webb, English Poor Law Policy.

Wood, “Real Wages since 1860,” Roy. Stat. Soc. Jour., 1909, 91-101.

 

Labor Organizations

Ashley, Adjustment of Wages, 160-183.

Kulemann, Die Gewerkschaftsbewegung.

Levasseur, Questions Ouvrières et Industrielles en France sous la Troisième République, 642-741.

Levine, Labor Movement in France.

Webb, S. and B., History of Trade Unionism (ed. 1920).

Webb, Industrial Democracy.

 

Factory Legislation

Barrault, La Réglementation du Travail à Domicile en Angleterre.

Commons and Andrews, Principles of Labor Legislation.

Hutchins and Harrison, History of Factory Legislation (ed. 1911).

Pic, Traité Élémentaire de Législation Industrielle (ed. 1912).

Plener, English Factory Legislation.

Taylor, R. W. C., Factory System and Factory Acts.

U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin 146, Administration of Labor Laws and Factory Inspection in Certain European Countries.

 

Coöperation and Profit-sharing

Aves, E., Coöperative Industry.

Corréard, J., Des Sociétés coopératives.

Dawson, Evolution of Modern Germany, 294-307.

Fay, C. R., Cooperation at Home and Abroad (ed. 1920).

Herrick, M. T., Rural Credits, 247-455.

Holyoake, Cooperation in England (ed. 1908), I, 32-162; II, 361-396.

Maxwell, W., History of Cooperation in Scotland, 43-114.

Potter, B. (Mrs. Webb), Cooperative Movement in Great Britain.

Report of U. S. Commission to investigate and study agricultural credit and coöperation in Europe (1914): 63d Cong., 2d Sess., Senate Doc. 380.

Valleroux, La Coopération.

(See also topic no. IV of this list)

 

Workingmen’s Insurance and Unemployment

Beveridge, Unemployment.

Dawson, Social Insurance in Germany.

Frankel and Dawson, Workingmen’s Insurance in Europe.

Gibbon, I. G., Unemployment Insurance.

Willoughby, Workingmen’s Insurance, 29-87.

U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin 206, The British System of Labor Exchanges.

 

Population and Emigration

Bullock, Selected Readings in Economics, 255-286.

Dawson, Evolution of Modern Germany, chs. xvi, xvii.

Duval, Histoire de L’Émigration au XIXe Siècle.

Foerster, R. F., Italian Emigration of Our Times, 3-202, 415-525.

Godwin, Wm., Of Population.

Gonnard, L’Émigration Européenne au XIXe Siècle.

Leroy-Beaulieu, P., La Question de la Population.

Leroy-Beaulieu, P., De la Colonisation chez les Peuples Modernes, II, 435-522.

Malthus, Essay on Population.

Nitti, Population and the Social System.

Philippovich, “Auswanderung und Auswanderungspolitik in Deutschland,” in Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, LII bd.

Wakefield, E. G., The Art of Colonization.

 

Bibliographies

Adams and Sumner, Labor Problems, references.

Cambridge Modern History, XII, 960-966.

Commons and Andrews, Principles of Labor Legislation, 465-488.

Frankel and Dawson, Workingmen’s Insurance, 435-443.

Gibbon, Unemployment Insurance, 337-342.

Harvard University, Dept. of Social Ethics, Guide to Reading in Social Ethics, 68-163, 183-209.

Hutchins and Harrison, Factory Legislation, 279-284.

Ogg, Economic Development of Modern Europe, at the end of chs. xvi-xx, inclusive.

Taylor, F. I., Bibliography of Unemployment.

Webb, Trade Unionism (ed. 1911), 499-543.

Webb, Industrial Democracy, 879-900.

Wright, Practical Sociology, references.

 

Image Source: Edwin Francis Gay and Edmund E. Lincoln from Harvard Class Album 1920.

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Harvard. Syllabus for Money, Banking & Commercial Crises. Anderson, 1917-18.

Benjamin McAlester Anderson (1886-1949) was awarded a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1911. His dissertation, Social Value–A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive was published in the Hart, Schaffer & Marx Prize Essays series. From 1913-18 he held the rank of Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Today I post his syllabus for the course “Money, Banking and Commercial Crises” from 1917-18 that is wonderfully detailed  both with respect to topics and detailed reading assignments. The final examination questions for the second-term of the two-term course have been transcribed and posted too. I have included Anderson’s c.v. as of the publication of his dissertation in November, 1911 below. I’ll next post the University of California’s brief biography of Anderson published in its “In Memoriam” series.

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VITA
[Benjamin M. Anderson 1911]

The author was born in Columbia, Missouri, May 1, 1886. He was prepared for college in the high
school in Columbia, and attended the State University of Missouri, receiving the A. B. degree from that institution in 1906. His work in economics at Missouri was chiefly with Professor J. E. Pope. He was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Missouri, in 1905. He filled a temporary vacancy in the chair of history at the State Normal School in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, during the summer session of 1905. He was Professor of Political Economy at Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri, 1906-7, and from 1907 to 1911 was Head of the Department of History and Political Economy in the State Normal School at Springfield, Missouri, though on leave of absence during the years 1909-10 and 1910-11. He was Fellow in Economics at the University of Illinois during the term 1909-10, working in the seminars of Dean Kinley and Professor E. L. Bogart, and, in philosophy, in the seminar of Professor B. H. Bode. He received the A. M. degree at Illinois in 1910. As Garth Fellow in Political Economy at Columbia University, 1910-11, he studied under Professors Seligman, Seager, H. L. Moore, Giddings and John Dewey, doing seminar work with Professors Seligman, Seager and Giddings. He was appointed in 1911 Instructor in Political Economy at Columbia University. In May, 1909, he was married to Miss Margaret Louise Crenshaw, at St. Louis, Mo.

Source: Benjamin M. Anderson, Social Value–A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructivep. i.

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Course Enrollment

[Economics] 3. Asst. Professor Anderson, assisted by Mr. Laporte.—Money, Banking, and Commercial Crises.

Total 38: 13 Seniors, 15 Juniors, 4 Sophomores, 6 Other.

 

Source: Harvard University. Reports of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard College, 1917-18, p. 54.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
1917-18

SYLLABUS FOR ECONOMICS 3

(Money, Banking, and Commercial Crises)
Assistant Professor Anderson

Required reading is marked with an asterisk

 

Part I. MONEY

  1. FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS.
    1. Definitions: money; specie; currency, etc.
    2. Origin of money; origin of gold and silver money; gold as a commodity.
    3. Functions of money; common measure of values; medium of exchange; legal tender; standard of deferred payments; store of value; bearer of options; reserve for credit operations.
    4. Standard and subsidiary money; Gresham’s law and monometallism; the gold standard.
    5. Value of money: preliminary statement.

Reading.

Anderson, Value of Money, pp. 397-427.*
Phillips, Readings in Money and Banking, pp. 1-26.*
Moulton, Money and Banking, Pt. I, pp. 45-62.*
Laughlin, Principles of Money, passim.
Menger, art. “Geld” in Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften.

  1. GOVERNMENT PAPER MONEY.
    1. Colonial and Revolutionary Paper Money.
    2. The French Assignats.
    3. The Greenbacks.
    4. Causes governing the value of inconvertible paper.
      1. Gold premium and index numbers.
    5. Financial results of inconvertible paper.
    6. Social and industrial consequences of inconvertible papers.

Reading.

Moulton, Pt. I, pp. 134-162; 168 (chart); 178-209, 260-66.*
Horace White, Money and Banking, chs. on Revolutionary Bills of Credit, and Greenbacks.*
Phillips, pp. 26-70, 115-120.*
Mitchell, W. C., History of the Greenbacks, and Gold, Wages and Prices under the Greenback Standard.

  1. THE STANDARD QUESTION.
    1. Early history of metallic money.
    2. History of bimetallism.
      1. Mediaeval and early modern times.
      2. England
      3. France
      4. United States.
    3. Theory of bimetallism:
      1. Theory of the ratio:
        1. Gresham’s Law.
        2. The compensatory principle.
      2. The standard of deferred payments: justice between debtor and creditor:
        1. Index numbers: of commodity prices; of wages.
        2. The commodity standard upheld by bimetallists.
        3. The labor standard by monometallists.
      3. Theory of exchanges between gold and silver countries.
    4. The monetary system of the United States.

Reading.

Phillips, Chs. VI and VII.*
Moulton, Pt. I, pp. 66-68, Chs. IV, VI, and VIII.*

    1. The gold exchange standard, and the triumph of the gold standard.
      1. India.
      2. Philippines.
      3. Mexico.
      4. Straits Settlement.
      5. Gold standard in 1914.

Reading.

Phillips, Chs. XII and XIV.*
Kemmerer, Modern Currency Reforms.

  1. THE VALUE OF MONEY.
    1. Economic Value.

Reading.

Anderson, Ch. I.

    1. Must the value of money rest on a commodity basis? Quantity theory doctrine that inconvertible paper may be sustained in value by limitation in supply.
    2. The quantity theory v. Gresham’s Law.

Reading.

Anderson, Chs. VII and XVII.
Fisher, Purchasing Power of Money, pp. 14-32.*

  1. STABILIZING THE GOLD DOLLAR.

Reading.

Moulton, Pt. I, pp. 258-60; 266-71.*
Phillips, Ch. XIII.*

PART II. CREDIT AND BANKING

  1. NATURE OF CREDIT.
    1. Kinds of credit instruments.
    2. Definitions of credit.
    3. Bank-credit—analysis of bank statement.
    4. The mechanism of the modern bank.

Reading.

Moulton, Pt. II, pp. 12-37.*
Anderson, Ch. XXIII.*
Dunbar, Theory and History of Banking, Chs. I-V.*
Fiske, The Modern Bank, pp. 25-260, omitting Chs. XXI, XXVIII, XXX.*
Horace White, ch. on Bank Statement.*

    1. The use of checks in payments in the United States.

Reading.

Phillips, pp. 150-58.*
Kinley, The Use of Credit Instruments in Payments in the United States, National Monetary Commission Report.

    1. The volume of money and credit and the volume of trade,—trade and speculation.

Reading.

Anderson, Ch. XIII.*

  1. BANK-NOTES AND BANK DEPOSITS: “CURRENCY SCHOOL” v. “BANKING SCHOOL.”
    1. Currency School and the quantity theory.
    2. Essential identity of notes and deposits under “assets banking.”
    3. Systems of bank-note issue: Suffolk system; Canada; England; France; Germany; Austria; United States national banking system.

Reading.

Anderson, Ch. XIV.*
Mill, J. S., Principles of Political Economy, Bk. III, Ch. XXIV, pars. 1 and 2.*
Moulton, Pt. II, pp. 225-58.*
Conant, Modern Banks of Issue, passim.

  1. THE ENGLISH BANKING SYSTEM.
    1. History.
    2. Analysis of present system in London: Bank of England; Joint Stock Banks; branches of foreign banks; discount houses; acceptance houses; bill brokers; Stock Exchange; commodity speculation; warehousing system and commission houses; insurance; foreign exchange.

Reading.

Withers and Palgrave, English Banking System, National Monetary Commission Report, pp. 3-110.*
Phillips, pp. 435-442; 464-473.*
Withers, The Meaning of Money.
Bagehot, Lombard Street.
Conant, Modern Banks of Issue.

  1. FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

Reading.

Escher, Foreign Exchange.*
Anderson, Ch. XVI, and Appendix to Ch. XIII.*
Weekly article in Annalist on foreign exchange market.

  1. SPECULATION ON THE STOCK AND PRODUCE EXCHANGES.
    1. Theory of speculation.
    2. The New York Stock Exchange.
      1. Methods of doing business.
      2. Contrasted with London, Paris, and Berlin exchanges.
    3. Investment bankers and underwriters.
    4. Chicago Board of Trade; New York Cotton Exchange.

Reading.

Emery, Speculation on the Stock and Produce Exchanges.
Pratt, Work of Wall Street.
Van Antwerp, The Stock Exchange from Within.
Passages to be assigned
.
Weekly articles in Annalist on stock and bond markets.

  1. “COMMERCIAL BANKING” AND SPECULATION; BANK ASSETS AND BANK RESERVES.

Reading.

Fisher, Purchasing Power of Money, pp. 47-54.*
Anderson, Ch. XXIV, and pp. 363-81, and 177-85.
Moulton, Pt. II, pp. 66-89.*

  1. CLEARING HOUSES.
    1. Methods.
    2. Extraordinary functions.
    3. The interpretation of “clearings.”

Reading.

Phillips, Ch. XIX.

  1. THE “MONEY MARKET.”
    1. “Money” v. money.
    2. “Money rates” v. interest rates.
    3. Analysis of causes governing money rates:
      1. General causes.
      2. Causes affecting special types of “paper.”

Reading.

Scott, W. A., Money and Banking, ch. on “Money Market.”* (1910 or later editions.)
Anderson, pp. 375-79; 425-32; 453-58;495-97; 516-27; 529-44.*
Moulton, Pt. II, pp. 120-136.*
Weekly article on “Money” in the Annalist.

  1. BANKING IN GERMANY.

Reading.

Phillips, Ch. XXV.*

  1. BANKING IN CANADA.

Reading.

Phillips, Ch. XXI.*

  1. BANKING IN FRANCE.

Reading.

Phillips, Ch. XXIV.*

  1. BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES.
    1. Before the Civil War.
      1. The two National Banks.
      2. State and private banks.
    2. Origin of the national banking system.
    3. State banks and trust companies; private banks; savings banks, etc.
    4. Comparative growth and present status of different classes of institutions. Geographical distribution.

Reading.

Horace White, Chs. on First and Second National banks, The Bank War, The Suffolk Bank System, The Safety Fund System, The Free Bank System, The National Bank System.*
Phillips, Chs. XV and XX.*
Barnett, State Banks and Trust Companies.

 

PART III. CRISES AND PANICS

  1. THEORY OF CRISES.
  2. FINANCIAL PANICS.

Reading.

Phillips, pp. 644-71.*

  1. HISTORY OF CRISES UNDER THE NATIONAL BANKING ACT.

Reading.

Sprague, History of Crises under the National Banking System, National Monetary Commission Report, pp. 153-320.*

  1. THE ENGLISH BANKING SYSTEM DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR. OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
  2. NEW YORK AND THE CRISIS OF 1914.

Reading.

Phillips, Ch. XXXII.*

  1. REMEDIES FOR CRISES AND PANICS. BUSINESS BAROMETERS.

 

PART IV. THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Reading.

Moulton, Pt. II, pp. 259-337.*

 

PART V. MISCELLANEOUS

  1. AGRICULTURAL CREDIT.

Reading.

Phillips, Ch. XXVII.*

  1. THE “MONEY TRUST.”

Reading.

Phillips, Ch. XXVIII.*
Anderson, pp. 516-20.*
Moulton, Pt. II, pp. 471-95.

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003, Box 1, Folder “Economics 1917-1918”.

Image Source: Benjamin M. Anderson in Harvard Album, 1915.

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Harvard. History of Economics Reading List. Schumpeter, 1949

Joseph Schumpeter offered his graduate course “History and Literature of Economics since 1776” nine times during the period 1940-1949. The core readings were basically unchanged. In an earlier post I provided the reading list and examinations from the 1939-40 academic year. This post provides the much stripped down reading list for the last time Schumpeter offered the course. The only addition to the reading list was George Stigler’s 1941 book,  Production and Distribution Theories.

Below you will find the course enrollment figures and the reading list for the Spring semester of 1949.

 

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Course Enrollment Statistics:

Graduates Seniors Juniors Radcliffe Other Total
1939-40 9 3 1 0 3 16
1940-41 11 2 0 3 1 17
1941-42 5 1 0 4 1 12
1942-43 10 3 0 6 3 22
1943-44 2 1 0 3 3 9
1944-45 Not offered
1945-46 18 2 5 25
1946-47 21 1 0 6 7 35
1947-48 17 4 0 2 7 30
1948-49 2 1 0 0 1 4

Note: course number was Economics 113b until the academic year 1947-48, then Economics 213b thereafter. Joseph Schumpeter died in January 1950.

 

Source: Harvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf. Harvard President’s Reports.

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Economics 213b
Spring 1949

Reading List

 

This course will cover the period between and including A. Smith and A. Marshall. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the Ricardian system of economic theory. The new edition of Gide and Rist, History of Economic Doctrines, Heath & Company, 1948, is recommended for survey purposes.

  1. Richard Cantillon, Essai sur la nature du commerce en général (1755), English translation by Higgs (1931).
  2. David Hume, Political Discourses (edition by Green and Grose, 1875), Vol. I. [Miller edition]
  3. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Cannan’s (Modern Library) edition.
  4. David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy. (Everyman’s Library).
  5. Thomas R. Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population (1798). [1803 edition, enlarged]
  6. William N. Senior [sic: should be “Senior, Nassau William”], Outline of the Science of Political Economy (1836).
  7. John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, also read introduction to Ashley’s edition.
  8. Karl Marx, first volume of Das Kapital (English translation, Modern Library).
  9. Augustin Cournot, Principles of the Theory of Wealth (Fisher’s edition, 1927).
  10. Knut Wicksell, Lectures on Political Economy (Robbins’ edition, 1934) [Vol. I; Vol. II].
  11. Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics, particularly Book V.

Further suggestions:

E. Böhm-Bawerk, Capital and Interest, Vol. I.
E. Cannan, Theories of Production and Distribution (1924). [2nd ed., 1903]
F. W. Taussig, Wages and Capital (1896).
G. Stigler, Production and Distribution Theories (1941).
J. Bonar, Malthus and his Work (1924). [1885 ed.]
M. Bowley, Nassau Senior and Classical Economics (1937).
J. R. Hicks,Leon Walras,” (Econometrica, 1934).
J. M. Keynes, Essays in Biography (mainly the essays on Malthus and Marshall).
J. Viner, Studies in the Theory of International Trade (1937).

 

Source: Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003. Harvard University Archives, HUC 8522.2.1. Box 4, Folder “Economics, 1948-1949 (2 of 2)”.

Image Source:  Harvard Album, 1947.

 

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Harvard. Reading List for the Russian Economy. Gerschenkron, 1948.

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The economic historian Alexander Gerschenkron was an associate professor when he taught the graduate seminar on the Russian [sic, “Soviet” should have been in the title] Economy in the Fall semester of 1948-49 at Harvard. The reading list has two parts:  the first for the Soviet Economy, the second for socialist economics.

Leontief taught the course the previous year.

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Enrollment in Economics 212b

[Economics] 212b. (Seminar) The Russian Economy (F). Associate Professor Gerschenkron.

Total 3:  3 Graduates

Source:  Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments for 1948-49, p. 77.

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READING LIST
Economics 212 B                 Fall term 1948/1949

Alexander Gerschenkron, Instructor

  1. Selected References on Soviet Economy

Arnold, A. Z.: Banks, Credit and Money in Soviet Russia. New York 1937.

Baykov, A. M. The Development of the Soviet Economic System. Cambridge (New York, Macmillan) 1946.

Baykov, A. M.: Soviet Foreign Trade. Princeton 1946.

Bergson, A.: The Structure of Soviet Wages, Cambridge 1944.

Bergson, A.: “The Fourth Five Year Plan.” Political Science Quarterly. June 1947.

Bienstock, G., S. M. Schwartz, and A. Yugow: Management in Russian Industry and Agriculture. New York 1944.

Brutzkus: Economic Planning in Soviet Russia. London 1935.

(Central Administration of Social and Economic Statistics): Socialist Construction in the USSR. Statistical Abstract. Moscow 1936.

(Central Administration of Social and Economic Statistics): Socialist Construction in the USSR (1933-38). Moscow 1939.

Chamberlin, W. H.: The Soviet Planned Economic Order. Boston, 1931.

Clark, C.: A Critique of Russian Statistics. London 1939.

Condoide, M. V.: Russian-American Trade. Columbus, Ohio, 1946.

Cressey, C. G.: The Basis of Soviet Strength. New York 1945.

Dobb, M.: Soviet Economic Development since 1917. London 1948.

Dobb, M.: Soviet Economy and the War. New York 1943.

Dobb, M.: Soviet Planning and Labor in War and Peace. New York 1943.

Freeman, J.: The Soviet Worker. New York 1932.

Gordon, Manya: Workers before and after Lenin. New York 1941.

From the First to the Second Five Year Plan. A Symposium. Moscow 1933.

Gerschenkron, A.: Economic Relations with the USSR. (The Committee on International Economic Policy in cooperation with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.) New York 1945.

Gregory, J. S., and D. W. Shave: The USSR. New York 1944.

Grinko, G. F.: The Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union. A Political Interpretation. New York 1930.

Hoover, C. B.: The Economic Life of Soviet Russia. New York 1931.

Hubbard, L. E.: Soviet Trade and Distribution. London 1938.

Hubbard, L. E.: The Economics of Soviet Agriculture. London 1939.

Hubbard, L. E.: Soviet Labor and Industry. London 1942.

Lorimer, F.: The Population of the Soviet Union. Geneva 1946.

Mandel, W.: A guide to the Soviet Union. New York 1946.

Maynard, J.: The Russian Peasant. London 1942.

Miller, M. S.: The Economic Development of Russia (1905-14). London 1926.

The Land of Socialism To-day and To-morrow. Reports and Speeches at the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (Moscow, 1939)

Nodel, W.: Supply and Trade in the USSR. London 1934.

Notestein, F. W., and others: The Future Population of Europe and the Soviet Union. League of Nations. Geneva, 1944.

Ossinsky, V., and others: Socialist Planned Economy in the Soviet Union. New York 1932.

Prokopovicz, S. N.: Quarterly Bulletin of Soviet Russian Economics. (All volumes).

Reddaway, W. B.: The Russian Financial System. London 1935.

Schwartz, H.: Russia’s Postwar Economy. Syracuse 1947.

Stalin, I. V.: Problems of Leninism. Moscow 1940 or New York 1942.

(State Planning Commission of the U.S.S.R.): The Soviet Union Looks Ahead. The Five Year Plan for Economic Construction. New York 1929.

(State Planning Commission of the U.S.S.R.): Summary of the Fulfillment of the First Five Year Plan. Report of the State Planning Commission. Moscow 1933.

(State Planning Commission of the U.S.S.R.): The Second Five Year Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the U.S.S.R. (1933-37). Moscow 1936.

Turin, S. P.: The U.S.S.R. An Economic and Social Survey. London 1944.

Timoshenko, V. P.: Agricultural Russia and the Wheat Problem. Stanford 1932.

Varga, E.: Two Systems: Socialist Economy and Capitalist Economy. New York 1939.

Voznessensky, N.: The Growing Prosperity of the Soviet Union. (Pamphlet). New York 1941.

Yugow, A.: Russia’s Economic Front for War and Peace. New York 1942.

 

  1. Selected References on Socialist Economics

Bergson, A., The Structure of Soviet Wages, Cambridge 1944, Ch. II

Bergson, A. “Socialist Economics” in: H.S. Ellis, ed. A Survey of Contemporary Economics, Philadelphia, 1948.

Bober, M.M., “Marx and Economic Calculation”, American Economic Review, June 1946.

Bergson, A. “Russian Defense Expenditures”, Foreign Affairs, January, 1948.

Baran, P.A.: Currency Reform in the U.S.S.R. Harvard Business Review, March 1948.

Bettelheim, Charles: La planification Soviétique. (Paris 1945)

Bogolepov, M.I.: The Soviet Financial System. (pamphlet) London 1945.

Birmingham Bureau of Research on Russian Economic Conditions.

Memorandum No. 4, February 1932. (“The Balance of Payments and the Foreign Debt of the U.S.S.R.”)
Memorandum No. 7, (“Foreign Trade, Monetary Conditions, Indices of Wholesale Prices, State Budget”)

Dickinson, H.D., Economics of Socialism, Oxford 1939.

Dobb, M.H., “Economic Theory and the Problem of a Socialist Economy”, Economic Journal, December 1933.

Dobb, M.H., Political Economy and Capitalism, London 1937, Ch. VIII.

Dobb, M. H., Soviet Economic Development since 1917. (Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd) London, 1948.

Durbin, E.F.M., “Economic Calculus in a Planned Economy”, Economic Journal, December 1936.

Haensel, Paul, “The Public Finance of the U.S.S.R.” The Tax Magazine, September, October, November, December, 1938. Reprinted and published as a pamphlet, Evanston, Illinois, 1938.

Hayek, F.A., ed., Collectivist Economic Planning. London, 1935.

Hayek, F.A., “Socialist Calculation: The Competitive Solution”, Economica, May 1940.

Hayek, F.A., “The Use of Knowledge in Society”, American Economic Review, September 1945.

Hubbard, L.E., Soviet Money and Finance.

Journal of Farm Economics, May 1948. (N. Jasny, “The Plight of the Collective Farms”)

Journal of Farm Economics (May 1945) (N. Jasny, “Labor Productivity in Agriculture in USSR and USA”)

Journal of Political Economy, August, 1947. (N. Jasny, “Intricacies of Russian National Income Indexes”)

Journal of Economic History, 1947, Supplement. (A. Gerschenkron, “The Rate of industrial Growth in Russia since 1885)

Lange, O., On the Economic Theory of Socialism, Minneapolis, 1938.

Lange, O., Working Principles of the Soviet Economy. (Pamphlet, Reprinted from USSR Economy and the War, Speeches delivered at the First Public Conference of the Russian Economic Institute, New York, 1942)

Lenin, V.I., State and Revolution.

Lerner, A.P., “Economic Theory and Socialist Economy”, Review of Economic Studies, October 1934.

Lerner, A.P., “Statics and Dynamics in Socialist Economics”, Economic Journal, June 1937.

Lerner, A.P., The Economics of Control, New York, 1946.

Marx, Karl, Critique of the Gotha Programme (International Publishers Edition, New York 1938.)

Mossé, Robert, L’Économie Collectiviste. (Paris 1939)

National Bureau of Economic Research, Cost Behavior and Price Determination. (Appendix B by P. Baran “Cost Accounting and Price Determination”)

National Bureau of Economic Research. Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Studies in Income and Wealth (New York, 1946).
(Studenski, Paul, “Methods of Estimating National Income in Soviet Russia”)

Pasvolsky, L. and H.G. Moulton, Russian Debts and Russian Reconstruction. (New York, 1924)

Pigou, A.C., Socialism vs. Capitalism. London, 1937.

Political Economy in the Soviet Union (Pamphlet), International Publishers, New York 1944; or “Teaching of Economics in the Soviet Union”, American Economic Review. September 1944 (These are both translations of the same article from the Soviet journal Pod Znamenem Marxizma). See also the comments on this article by R. Dunayevskaya, P. Baran, O. Lange, C. Landauer in American Economic Review, June 1944, September 1944, December 1944, March 1945, September 1945.

Review of Economic Statistics, November 1947. (Appraisals of Russian Economic Statistics)

Schumpeter, J.A. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, New York 1947.

Sokol’nikov, G.Y. and Associates, Soviet Policy in Public Finance, 1917-1928. (Stanford, 1931)

School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London,

Monograph No. 3, November 1934, “Money and Prices and Gold in the Soviet Union.”
Monograph Nos. 4-5, February 1935. “Banking and Credit in the Soviet Union”.

Schwartz, H. “On the Use of Soviet Statistics” Journal of the American Statistical Association. September, 1947.

Schwartz, H. “Prices in the Soviet Economy”. American Economic Review, December, 1946.

Social Research, December 1946. (Wyler, Julius, “The National Income of Soviet Russia”)

S.N. Prokopovicz, Der Vierte Fünfjahrplan der Sowjetunion 1945-1950. Zurich – Vienna, 1948.

S.N. Prokopovicz, Russlands Volkswirtschaft unter den Sowjets. (Zurich – New York, 1944)

Sweezy, A. R., “The Economist’s Place under Socialism”, in Explorations in Economics: Essays in Honor of F.W. Taussig, New York 1936.

Sweezy, P.M., The Theory of Capitalist Development. New York, 1942.

Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution, New York 1931.

Voznesenski, N.A., Soviet War Economy. Public Affairs Press, (Washington, D.C., 1948)

The American Slavic and East-European Review – April 1948. (A. Gerschenkron, A Note on Russian Industry in 1947)

American Economic Review, March, 1946. (Sumberg, T.A., “The Soviet Union War Budgets”.)

Gerschenkron, A. Rate of industrial growth in Russia.

Gerschenkron, A. Note on Russian industry in 1947.

La Conjoncture, June 15, 1948.

Chossudowsky, E.M. De-rationing in the U.S.S.R. (Rev. of Econ. Studies, Nov. 1941)

Chossudowsky, E.M. Rationing in the U.S.S.R. (Review of Economic Studies, June 1941.

Voznesenski Report on the 4th five year plan. Information bulletin of the U.S.S.R. March 15, 1946.

Moscow news. March 23, 1947 and March 27, 1947.

Dictionary of socio-economi statistics, 1944 (P.D. Prof. Gerschenkron).

Source: Harvard University Archives (HUC 8522.2.1) Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003. Box 4, Folder “Economics, 1948-49 (2 of 2)”.

Image Source:  Harvard Album, 1952.

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Harvard. Economics and Public Policy for Public Administration, Smithies. 1949-50

 

Following the brief obituary for Arthur Smithies from the Harvard Crimson, course enrollment statistics and the course reading list for his public administration course “Economic Analysis and Public Policy” at mid-century are included in today’s post.

The mid-year and course final examinations have been transcribed and posted now as well.

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Economist and K-House Master Arthur Smithies Dies at Age 73

The Harvard Crimson
September 14, 1981

Arthur Smithies, Ropes Professor of Political Economy Emeritus and a former master of Kirkland House, died of a heart attack at the Cambridge Boat Club last Wednesday after rowing on the Charles River. He was 73 years old.

Smithies, an authority on the Federal budget and the fiscal policies of developing countries, served as chairman of the Economics department from 1950 to 1955 and from 1959 to 1961. “Smithies did a lot for Harvard,” Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and one of Smithies’ students, said yesterday. “He really started the modern era of the Economics department here.”

An early advocate of Keynesian economics, Smithies wrote extensively on the Federal budget, fiscal policy and full employment. His “The Federal Budget and Fiscal Policy,” published in 1948, was regarded as the standard work in the field for two decades.

By the 1960s, however, his interests had changed to the economic problems of developing countries. In the 1970s, Smithies helped develop and implement policies aimed at preventing the South Vietnamese government from collapsing economically in the face of high military expenditures.

“Unlike many economists, Smithies correctly believed that the difference between a good economist and an inferior one is his sense of history,” John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, said Friday. Smithies was “one of the most popular and engaging members of the Harvard Economics department,” Galbraith added.

As master of Kirkland House from 1965 to 1974, Smithies was known for his affection for students, his ability to stimulate debate, and his love of athletics, former students and associates said last week. He was also known for his annual renditions of “Waltzing Matilda” at the Kirkland House Christmas party. A native of Tasmania, Smithies had “a terrible singing voice, which the students always induced him to use,” Warren Wacker, master of South House and a close friend of Smithies, said yesterday.

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Course Enrollment

[Economics] 206. (formerly Economics 106a and 106b). Economic Analysis and Public Policy. (Full Co.) Professor Smithies.

(F) Total 59: 6 Graduates, 1 Senior, 39 Public Administration, 7 Business School, 5 Radcliffe, 1 Other.

(S) Total 58 (sic): 6 Graduates, 1 Senior, 36 Public Administration, 9 Business School, 4 Radcliffe, 1 Other.

 

Source: Harvard University, Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of the Departments 1949-50, p. 74.

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ECONOMICS 206

Reading List 1949-50

 

American Economic Association, (ed. Howard Ellis) Survey of Contemporary Economics, “Federal Budgeting and Fiscal Policy,” by Arthur Smithies, Blakiston, 1948.

American Political Science Review, “Federal Executive Reorganization Re-examined,” A Symposium edited by Fritz Marx, February 1947, pp. 48-84.

Appleby, Paul H., Big Democracy, Alfred Knopf, New York, 1945.

Beveridge, Sir William [*], Full Employment in a Free Society, Norton, New York, 1945.

Economic Reports of the President [*], all issues, particularly Midyear Economic Report, July 1949.

Federal Expenditures and Revenue Policies, Hearings before the U.S. Joint Committee on Economic Report, 81st Congress, September 1949.

Franks, Sir Oliver (Essays) Central Planning and Control in War and Peace, Harvard University Press, 1947.

Hansen, Alvin H., Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles, Norton, 1941.

Hayek, Friedrich, Road to Serfdom, University of Chicago Press, 1945.

Income, Employment and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Alvin H. Hansen, Norton, 1948, New York. Article: “Income-Consumption Relations and Their Implications” by James S. Duesenberry.

Keynes, J. M. General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Harcourt Brace & Co., New York 1936.

Lange, Oskar, On the Economic Theory of Socialism, University of Minnesota, 1948.

Mills and Long, National Bureau of Economic Research, Statistical Agencies of the Federal Government, New York, 1949.

Mises, Von, Ludwig, Economic Planning, Dynamic America, New York, 1945.

Nathan, Robert, A National Wage Policy for 1947, Washington, 1947.

Samuelson, Paul A. [*], Economics: An Introductory Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1948.

Schumpeter, Joseph [*], Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, Harpers and Brothers, New York, 1947.

Smithies, Arthur, Business Cycle Analysis and Public Policy, Paper submitted to Business Cycle Conference, New York, November 26, 1949.

Spence Bill, Economic Stability Act of 1949, H. R. 2756.

United Nations, Secretariat, Department of Economic Affairs, Maintenance of Full Employment, 1949 (especially United Kingdom), 1949.

 

Reading Period Assignment

Meade, J., Planning and the Price System, Allen & Unwin, London, 1948.

Sweezy, Paul, Socialism, Economic Handbook Series (Harris, ed.), McGraw-Hill, New York, 1949.

 

[*] Indicates that book is authorized for purchase by veterans.

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003. Box 5, Folder “Economics, 1949-50 (3 of 3)”.

Image Source: Harvard Album 1952.

 

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MIT. Robert Solow’s Advanced Economic Theory Course, 1962

Robert Solow taught the course Advanced Economic Theory at MIT in the Spring of the 1961/62 academic year. Of the dozen graduate students who took the course for credit were a future Nobel prize winner (Peter Diamond), a future Princeton professor and later member of Jimmy Carter’s Council of Economic Advisers (Stephen Goldfeld), a future professor at University of Pennsylvania/Washington University (Robert Pollak), a future professor and later chairman of Hebrew University (David Levhari), and a professor of economics and the first woman to head an MIT academic department, economics! 1984-1990 and MIT’s first female academic dean, School of Humanities and Social Science (Ann Friedlaender).

The three A’s awarded in the course went to Diamond, Levhari and Goldfeld.

The comprehensive exam questions for advanced economic theory from May 1962 were transcribed in the previous post.

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14.123—Advanced Economic Theory
Spring 1962—Professor Solow

FIRST READING LIST: LINEAR PROGRAMMING AND RELATED SUBJECTS

This should occupy 6-9 weeks. Most of the reading is in Gale: The Theory of Linear Economic Models and Dorfman, Samuelson, Solow: Linear Programming and Econmic Analysis, referred to below as G and D respectively.

  1. Mathematical background: I hope to avoid spending any time on this. Mainly elements of matrix algebra—14.102 should be enough. For review, see D (Appendix B) and G (Ch. 2, more difficult).
  2. Elements of Linear Programming; D (Ch. 2,3), G (Ch. 1,3).
  3. Algebra and Geometry of Linear Programming, Simplex Method; D (Ch. 4, Sec. 1-11), G (Ch. 4).
  4. Applications; D (Ch. 5-7), Manne: Economic Analysis for Business Decisions (Ch. 4,5).
  5. Two-person zero-sum games; D (Ch. 15), G (Ch. 6,7).
  6. Leontief and similar systems; G (Ch. 8, 9 Sec. 1-3), D (Ch. 9, 10).
  7. Activity analysis; G (Ch. 9, Sec. 4), Koopmans: Three Essays on the State of Economic Science (pp. 66-104).
  8. Von Neumann’s model; D (Ch. 13, Sec. 6), G (Ch. 9, Sec. 5-7).
  9. Sraffa: Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities.
    Robinson: “Prelude to a Critique of Economic Theory”, Oxford Economic Papers, February 1961, 53-58.
  10. If time permits, the turnpike theorem; D (Ch. 12), Hicks: “Prices and the Turnpike”, Review of Economic Studies, February 1961, 77-88.
    Radner: “Paths of Economic Growth that are Optimal, etc.”, Review of Economic Studies, February 1961, 98-104.

(Further references may follow.)

 

SECOND READING LIST: PUBLIC INVESTMENT CRITERIA

  1. Hirshleifer: “On the Theory of Optimal Investment Decision”, Journal of Political Economy, August 1958, pp. 329-352.
  2. Graaff: Theoretical Welfare Economics, Chs. 6-8.
  3. Eckstein: “A Survey of the Theory of Public Expenditure Criteria”, in Public Finances: Needs, Sources and Utilization, with “Comments” by Hirshleifer.
  4. Margolis: “The Economic Evaluation of Federal Water Resource Development”, AER, March 1959, pp. 96-111.
  5. Steiner: “Choosing Among Alternative Public Investments”, AER, Dec. 1959, pp. 898-916.
  6. Maass, al.: Design of Water-Resource Systems, Chs. 2, 13 (and passim).
  7. Eckstein: Water Resource Development, Ch. 1-4.

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April 11, 1962

14.123—Exam

Answer all questions.

  1. A function f of vectors x,y,… is called subadditive if f(x+y) ≤ f(x) + f(y) for all vectors x, y, and called superadditive if the inequality is reversed.
    Consider the LP problem of maximizing C′x subject to Ax ≤ b. The value of the maximum is a function of C, b, and A. Show that it is a subadditive function of C and a superadditive function of b.
  2. A firm can produce n commodities with a linear technology involving one activity for each commodity. Production involves only fixed factors, m in number, m<n, of which specified amounts are available. The output is sold at market prices p, and the firm chooses non-negative vector x of outputs to maximize p′x subject to the fixed-factor limitations.
    (a) Prove that the supply curve is not negatively sloped; that is, prove that if p1 increases, other prices constant, the optimal x1 must increase or remain unchanged, but cannot decrease. (Hint: a straightforward procedure is to consider closely the final simplex tableau, the signs of various elements, and what can happen to require further iteration if p1 There is a much simpler proof, comparing the before-and-after optima.)
    (b) State and interpret the dual to the theorem just proved.
  3. Consider a simple linear model of production, with 2 goods, and with 2 fixed factors, land and labor, available in specified amounts.
    (a) Sketch possible shapes for the set of feasible net outputs, or net production-possibility curve.
    (b) Suppose demand conditions are such that consumption expenditures on the two commodities are always equal. Give a complete analysis of the determination of the prices of the two goods and also the rent of land and the wage of labor. Graphical methods will help. (Hint: at one key point the construction of an isosceles triangle is very useful.)

 

Source: Duke University. Rosenstein Library. Robert M. Solow Papers, Box 67, Folder “14.123 Final Exam Fall-1969[sic|”.

Image Source: Robert Merton Solow at the M.I.T. Museum website.

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Harvard. Problems of Labor. William Z. Ripley, 1931

 

 

William Zebina Ripley (1867-1941) was awarded a B.S. in civil engineering from M.I.T. in 1890. With his dissertation “The Financial History of Virginia, 1607-1776”  he earned a doctorate in political economy at Columbia University in 1893. His initial reputation was based on his work The Races of Europe: A Sociological Study (1899)  that ascribed civic and moral characteristics of peoples to their racial characteristics. Like many in the populist right today who worry about the impact of immigrants on the existing domestic culture, Ripley too saw social behaviors as essentially hard-wired. He moved on from his racist social anthropology to become an expert on railroad affairs, labor market institutions and the regulation of financial markets (Main Street and Wall Street (1927)).  He ended policy-wise closer to the Occupy Wall Street movement than one might have expected from his early scholarship.

A brief biographical entry for Ripley written by Paul J. Miranti Jr.’s was published in History of Accounting: An International Encyclopedia. 1996, pp. 502-505.

The reading list in today’s post comes from a folder of economics reading lists for the Harvard economics department from the academic year 1931-32. While penciled in at the top of the page is “Econ 34”, the typed header reads “Assignments for Economics 10”. As seen from the enrollment report for Economics 34, William Z. Ripley was credited with teaching that class. The reading assignments are clearly for a course in labor economics (as opposed to the Economics 10a and 10b, economic history courses taught by Usher that year). There was no previous course numbering system in which Economics 10 was a labor economics course either. Thus, I am puzzled about the origin of this reading list. Maybe “Economics 10” was simply a secretarial typo.

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Course Enrollment

[Economics] 34. Professor Ripley.—Problems of Labor.

3 Graduates, 1 Radcliffe, 1 Other: Total 5

 

Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments, 1931-32, p. 72.

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Econ 34

Assignments for Economics 10 [sic]
1931

I. INTRODUCTION; THE WAGE SYSTEM AND DOCTRINES OF WAGES.

Final Report of the Commission on Industrial Relations, 1915, pp. 22-91; pp. 407-439. [pencil note: “either of these the 1st day; the other the 2nd day.”]
Bogart, Economic History of the United States, ch. 4.
Mill, Principles of Political Economy, book II, chs. 5,11.
Marshall, Principles of Economics, book VI, chs. 1-5.

II. LABOR ORGANIZATION.

  1. Collective Bargaining; Employers’ Associations.

Webb, Industrial Democracy, part II, ch. 2.
Hoxie, Trade Unionism in the United States, chs. 8, 10.
Commons, Trade Unionism and Labor Problems, ch. 39.

  1. Trade Union Policies and Activities

Hoxie, ch. 11.
Furniss, Labor Problems, ch. 10
Watkins, Labor Problems, ch. 20.
Estey, The Labor Problem, ch. 3.

(a) The Closed Shop.

Estey, ch. 5.
Catlin, ch. 12.

(b) The Standard Rate; Opposition to Piece Rates.

Webb, Part II, ch. 5.
Hoxie, ch. 13.

(c) The Normal Day

Webb, part II, ch. 6.

(d) Restriction of Output

Catlin, ch. 13.

(e) Union Attitude toward Machinery; Technological Unemployment.

Webb, part II, ch. 8.
Watkins, ch. 5.

(f) Mutual Assistance (Benefits)

Catlin, ch. 14.

(g) Labor Banks.

Hardman, American Labor Dynamics, ch. 28.

(h) The Closed Union.

Webb, part II, ch. 10, section (a) and part III, ch. 3, section (a).

  1. Historical Background

Webb, History of Trade Unionism.
Furniss, ch. 8.
Hoxie, ch. 4.
Wolman, Growth of American Trade Unions.
Ware, The Labor Movement in the United States, 1860-1895.
Perlman, History of Trade Unionism in the United States.
Mary Beard, A Short History of the American Labor Movement.

(a) The Early Years.

(b) The Knights of Labor.

(c) The Development of Craft Unionism.

  1. Trade Unionism vs. Industrial Unionism

Hoxie, ch. 6.
American Mercury, March, 1929, Earl W. Shimmons, “The Twilight of the A. F. of L.”

  1. Trade-union Problems.

(a) Organization of the A. F. of L.

Hoxie, ch. 5.
Furniss, ch. 9.
Matthew Woll, The American Federation of Labor.

(b) The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and the Railroad Brotherhoods.

(c) Trade Union Organization Abroad. (Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Australasia, Canada, Latin America).

Catlin, The Labor Problem, ch. 10.
Raynor, Trade Unionism.
Dunn, Soviet Trade Unions.
Beals, Rome or Death, ch. 10.
Logan, Trade-union Organization in Canada, ch. 4.
Journal of Political Economy, June 1930, M. R. Clark, “French Syndicalism of the Present.”

(d) Problems of Organization.

Hoxie, ch. 7.
Hardman, American Labor Dynamics, chs. 6,7.

(e) Unionism in the South.

Hardman, ch. 18.
Wm. Green, Labor’s Message to the South.
American Mercury, Feb. 1930, W. J. Cash, “The War in the South.”

(f) Violence in Labor Disputes.

United States Commission on Industrial Relations, 1915.
Helen Marot, American Labor Unions.

  1. Organized Labor and the Courts.

Hoxie, ch. 9.
Furniss, ch. 12.
Commons and Andrews, Principles of Labor Legislation, ch. 3, section 1.
Blum, Labor Economics, chs. 4, 5.
Sayre, Cases on Labor Law.

(a) The Strike and the Boycott.

Catlin, ch. 15.
Groat, Organized Labor in America, chs. 10, 11, 14, 15.

(b) Picketing

(c) The Injunction.

(d) Legal Status of Trade Unions.

  1. Labor and Politics: Policy of the A. F. of L.

Furniss, ch. 11.
Hardman, ch. 22.
Samuel Gompers, Should a Political Labor Party be Formed?

  1. Conciliation, Mediation, and Arbitration.

Webb, part II, ch. 3.
Furniss, ch. 13.
Blum, pp. 248-291.
Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 31, M. B. Hammond, “The Regulation of Wages in New Zealand.”

(a) Compulsory Mediation; The Lemieux Act (Canada).

(b) Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand and Germany.

[handwritten addition in pen: Pol. Sci. Quarterly, Sept. ’29, H. B. Davis, “The German Labor Courts”)]

  1. Industrial Relations.

Gemmill, Present Day Labor Relations.
Furniss, chs. 14, 15.
Hardman, chs. 19, 20, 21.

(a) The Company Union; Employee Representation; Attitude of Organized Labor.

(b) Trade-union Management.

(c) Profit-sharing and Ownership-sharing.

III. UNEMPLOYMENT.

  1. The Problem of Unemployment

Fairchild, Furniss, and Buck, Elementary Economics, ch. 48.
Furniss, Labor Problems, ch. 2.
Blum, Labor Economics, ch. 8.
Cassel, Theory of Social Economy, ch. 15.

  1. Remedies for Unemployment.

Furniss, ch. 3.
Blum, chs. 9, 10.

IV. SOCIAL LEGISLATION.

Webb, part II, ch. 4.
Sayre, Cases on Labor Law.

  1. Industrial Accidents; Workmen’s Compensation Acts.

Furniss, ch. 7.
Commons and Andrews, pp. 434-453.

  1. The Minimum Wage.

Furniss, ch. 4.
Journal of Political Economy, Dec. 1912, Webb, “Theory of the Legal Minimum Wage.”
Commons, Trade Unionism and Labor Problems. ch. 42.

  1. Hours of Labor.

Furniss, ch. 5.

  1. Unemployment and Sickness Insurance.

Commons, Trade Unionism and Labor Problems, chs. 3, 4.

  1. Old-age Pensions.

  2. Child and Woman Labor.

Furniss, ch. 6.

V. SCHEMES OF SOCIAL REFORM.

Hoxie, ch. 14.
Manifesto of the Communist Party.
Lindsay, Karl Marx’s Capital.

  1. The Co-operative Movement.

Catlin, ch. 22.

  1. Communism, Anarchism and Socialism.

Lorwin, Labor and Internationalism, chs. 16, 17, 21, 22

  1. The Single Tax.

  2. Socialist Parties in the United States.

VI. MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS OF LABOR.

  1. The International Labor Organization of the League of Nations.

  2. The Labor Turnover.

Estey, ch. 10.
Commons, Trade Unionism and Labor Problems, ch. 12.

  1. Immigration.

Watkins, ch. 35.

  1. Credit Unions as a Factor in Improving Living Conditions among the Working Classes.

American Federationist, Jan. 1930, Roy F. Bergengren, “The Credit Union.”
Edson L. Whitney, Co-operative Credit Societies (Credit Unions) in America and in Foreign Countries.

  1. Recent Trend of Real Wages.

VII. CONCLUSION.

Hamilton and May, Control of Wages

 

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003. Box 2, Folder “Economics, 1931-1932”.

 

 

 

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Harvard. European Central Banking. Schumpeter, 1945

Course offerings in money and monetary policy at Harvard in the late 1930s and most of the 1940s  were dominated by John H. Williams and Alvin Hansen. An exception was the course, “The Theory and Policy of Central Banking: European Experience,” that was offered just once (Fall term 1945-46) by Joseph Schumpeter. I was only able to find what appears to be a hastily assembled, provisional list of suggested readings provided at the start of the semester with a promise that “References to material and literature will be given currently”. The list of final examination questions for the course that I found in Schumpeter’s papers at the Harvard Archives at least gives us some indication of the broad themes of the course.

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Course Enrollment

[Economics] 142a. (fall term) Professor Schumpeter.—The Theory and Policy of Central Banking: European Experience.

4 Graduates, 1 Junior, 5 Public Administration, 1 Radcliffe:   Total 11

 

Source: Harvard University, Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments for 1945-46, p. 60.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
1945-6
Economics 142a

This course aims at working out the role of central banks both in the capitalist and in the planned economy, and at reviewing a number of theoretical and historical problems in the field of money and credit, relevant tot he main theme. References to material and literature will be given currently. The following list is confined to general suggestions.

 

  1. General works on central banking.

A. C. Conant, History of Modern Banks of Issue, 6th ed., 1927.
C. H. Kisch and W. A. Elkins, Central Banks*, 1928.
E. Victor Morgan, Theory and Practice of Central Banking, 1797-1913, 1942.
V. C. Smith, The Rationale of Central Banking, 1936.
R. G. Hawtrey, The Art of Central Banking*, 1932.
M. H. de Kock, Central Banking, 1939.

  1. Works on the History of Banking Theory.

W. T. C. King, History of the English Discount Market*, 1936.
H. E. Miller, Banking Theories in the U. S. before 1860, 1927.
E. Wood, English Theories of Central Banking Control, 1819-1858, 1939.

  1. For Prewar Figures on Central Banks, see

League of Nations, Money and Banking 1938-9, Vol. I, 1939.

  1. Miscellaneous Suggestions.

J. W. Angell, The Behavior of Money, 1936.
P. Einzig, The Theory of Forward Exchange, 1937.
C. R. Whittlesey, Bank Liquidity and the War, (National Bureau of Economic Research, Our Economy in War, Occasional Paper 22).
A. Youngman, The Federal Reserve System in wartime, (the same, Occasional paper 21).

* These are especially recommended.

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003, Box 4, Folder “Economics, 1945-46 (2 of 2)”.

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Final Examination Questions

 

1945-46

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 142A

One question may be omitted. Arrange your answers in the order of the questions.

  1. Discuss the issue: “Control of Money” or “Control of Credit.”
  2. If you were to frame the plan for a Central Bank, for instance in one of the South-American states, would you give it the right to do business with customers other than banks?
  3. In 1910, the Governor of the Bank of England declared that the following types of finance bills were “legitimate”: (a) bills that represent exchange transactions; (b) bills created in order to finance the carrying of stocks of commodities or securities; (c) bills drawn in anticipation of public loans. Comment.
  4. Suppose that a country which has been using paper money, adopts an unrestricted gold standard. Disregarding the period of transition, would you expect Bank Rate to keep on a higher level after the gold standard has been established than it did under the paper standard? Assume that the rest of the world is on the gold standard.
  5. State the main points of difference between the constitutions and policies of the Bank of England, the Bank of France and the Bank of Germany in the last quarters of the 19th century and explain briefly their significance and causes.
  6. Explain the reasons for the decline in importance of the Domestic Bill during the half-century before 1914. Had this decline anything to do with the legislation about central banks? And had it, in turn, any influence upon their policy?

Final. January, 1946.

Source: Harvard University Archives. Joseph Schumpeter Papers. Lecture Notes, Box 3, Folder “misc. notes”.

 

Image Source: Selection from “Joseph A. Schumpeter and other at dinner table, ca. 1945”, Harvard University Archives HUGBS 276.90p (4).