Albert G. Hart was a graduate student at the University of Chicago 1931-34. Among the courses he took was that of Henry Schultz in mathematical economics. In his papers are three sets of reading lists for the course along with Hart’s handwritten notes.
Course Description Econ 402
References for Econ. 402
References for Cost Theory
References for Monopolistic Competition
The same core reading list was used in the autumn quarter of 1935. The reading list for that quarter has been transcribed in a later post, with the added attraction of having many links to the individual items on the list!
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- Mathematical Economics.—A study of economic theory from the point of view of assumptions, range of problems, methods and tools, and validity and utility of results under present conditions. Consideration is given to the problem of “circular reasoning” in price theory, to the advantages and limitations of the mathematical approach, and to the possibility of developing a “statistical complement” to pure theory. Special attention is paid to the problem of price determination and to the mathematical theory of production. Readings will be assigned on special topics in the works of Cournot, Jevons, Walras, Pareto, Marshall, Moore, and others; and the class meetings will be devoted chiefly to discussion. Opportunity for investigation of particular problems is offered the student. Prerequisite: Economics 301 [Price and Distribution Theory], a reading knowledge of French, and consent of the instructor. Registration may be made for one or more courses each quarter. Summer, Spring, SCHULTZ.
Source: University of Chicago. Announcements, Social Sciences for the sessions of 1931-32. Vol. XXI, January 15, 1931, no. 11, p. 26
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[Spring Quarter 1932]
REFERENCES FOR ECON. 402
Mathematical Economics
By
Henry Schultz
University of Chicago
| Amoroso, Luigi | Lezioni di Economia Matematica |
| Le Equazioni Differenziali della Dinamica Economica—in Giornale degli Economisti, February, 1929. | |
| La Curva Statica di Offerta—Giornale degli Economisti, January, 1930. | |
| Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science | July, 1892 (Paper by Walras) |
| Auspitz, Rudolf Lieben, Richard |
Recherches sur la théorie du prix |
| Bentham, Jeremy | Principles of Morals and Legislation |
| Bertolasi, Ellen Quittner | Die Stellung der Lausanner Schule in der Grenznutzenlehre—in Arch. f. Sozialw. u. Sozialpol., 64. Band, Heft 1, August, 1930, pp. 16-44. |
| Black, J. O. | Production Economics |
| Bonar, James | Philosophy and Political Economy |
| Bousquet, G. H. | Essai sur l’évolution de la Pensée économique |
| Précis de sociologie d’àpres Vilfredo Pareto | |
| Vilfredo Pareto: Sa vie et son oeuvre | |
| Boven, Pierre | Les applications mathématiques à l’économie politique |
| Bowley, A. L. | Mathematical Groundwork of Economics |
| Bridgman, P. W. | The Logic of Modern Physics |
| Cassel, Gustav | Theory of Social Economy |
| Fundamental Thoughts on Economics | |
| Cournot, A. A. | The Mathematical Theory of Wealth |
| Théorie des richesses | |
| Cunynghame, H. | Geometrical Political Economy |
| Del Vecchio, Gustavo | La Dinamica Economica Di H. L. Moore—in Giornale degli Economisti, Anno XLV, Giugno, 1930, VIII, No. 6, pp. 545-554. |
| Dicey | Law and Opinion in England |
| Edgeworth, F. Y. | Mathematical Psychics |
| Papers relating to Political Economy | |
| Evans, G. C. | Mathematical Introduction to Economics |
| Fisher, Irving | Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices,—in Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences (9-10) pp. 1-125. |
| Giornale degli Economisti | Aug. & Oct., 1924 |
| Halévy, Élie | La formation du radicalism philosophique |
| Hobson, E. W. | The Domain of Natural Science |
| Jevons, W. S. | Theory of Political Economy |
| Journal of the American Statistical Association | Dec. 1923; March & Dec. 1924; Dec. 1926 (Papers by H. L. Moore) |
| Journal of Political Economy | Oct. & Dec. 1925; April 1927 |
| Marshall, Alfred | Principles of Economics |
| Industry and Trade | |
| Money, Credit and Commerce | |
| Moore, Henry L. | Laws of Wages |
| Economic Cycles | |
| Forecasting the Yield & the Price of Cotton | |
| Generating Economic Cycles | |
| Synthetic Economics | |
| Moret, Jacques | L’emploi des mathématiques en économie politique |
| Nicol, A. J. | Partial Monopoly and Price Leadership (Privately published) |
| Pantaleoni, M. | Pure Economics |
| Pareto, Vilfredo | Manuel d’économie politique |
| Cours d’économie politique | |
| Anwendung der Mathematik auf National Ökonomie, —in Encycl. Mathematisch, Wissenschaft, I G 2, pp. 1094-1170 | |
| Économie mathématique, —in Encyclopédie des sciences mathématique, Tome I, vol. 4 (Fascicule 4, pp. 590-640) | |
| The New Theories of Economics, —in Journ. Polit.Econ., Sept. 1897 | |
| Traité de sociologie générale | |
| Pearson, Karl | Grammar of Science |
| Pietri-Tonelli, Alfonso | Traité d’économie rationelle |
| Pigou, Alfred [sic, Arthur] | Economics of Welfare |
| Planck, Max | A Survey of Physics |
| Poincaré, Henri | Foundations of Science |
| Political Science Quarterly | Vol. XXXIII, June, 1918, No. 2, pp. 164-5 (Paper by Mitchell) |
| Quarterly Journal of Economics | Jan. 1898; Aug. 1925; Nov. 1926; March 1927 |
| Revue d’histoire des doctrines économique et sociales | 1910 (Article by Antonelli on Léon Walras) |
| Revue d’histoire économique et sociale | 1924, pp. 225-43 |
| Revue de metaphysique et de morale | (13) 1905 (Section on Cournot) |
| Ricci, Umberto | Die statistischen Gesetze des Gleichgewichtes nach Henry Schultz—in Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, January, 1931 |
| Schultz, Henry | Statistical Laws of Demand and Supply |
| Marginal Productivity and the General Pricing Process, —Journ. Polit. Econ., Oct. 1929 | |
| Der Sinn der statistischen Nachfragekurven | |
| Vinci, Felice | “Sui Fondamenti della Dinamica Economica”, Rivista Italiana di Statistica, Anno II, No. 3, Luglio-Settembre, 1930—VIII, pp. 222-268 |
| Walras, Léon | Économie politique appliquée |
| Économie sociale | |
| Élèments d’économie politique | |
| Wicksteed, Philip | The Alphabet of Economic Science |
| Common Sense of Political Economy | |
| Stephen, Leslie | The Utilitarians |
| Zawadzki, Wl. | Les mathématiques appliquées à l’économie politique |
| Zeuthen, F. L. | Problems of Monopoly and Economic Welfare |
| [handwritten addition] Weinberger, Otto | Mathematische Sozialwissenschaft |
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Economics 402
Prof. Henry Schultz
REFERENCES ON COST THEORY
Marshall, A.—Principles of Economics, 8th ed., Book V, Chap. V.
Ricci, Umberto—“Curve piane di offerta dei prodotti”, Giornale degli Economisti, Vol. 33, September, 1906, pp. 223ff.
————- “Elasticita dei Bisogni delli Domanda e dell’ offerta,” Giornale degli Economisti, August and October, 1924.
Edgeworth, F. Y.—“The Laws of Increasing and Diminishing Returns”, in Papers Relating to Political Economy, Vol. I, pp. 61-99.
Young, Allyn A.—“Pigou’s Wealth and Welfare”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XXVII, 1913, pp. 672ff.
Fanno, Marco—Contributo alla Teoria dell’offerta a costi conqiunti, Rome, 1914.
Clapham, J. H.—“On Empty Economic Boxes”, Economic Journal, Vol. 32, September, 1922, pp. 304-314.
Pigou, Prof. A. C.—“Empty Economic Boxes: A Reply”, Economic Journal, Vol 32, December 1922, pp. 458 ff.
Clapham, J. H.—“The EconomiC Boxes—a Rejoinder”, Ibid.
Knight, F. H.—“Some Fallacies in the Interpretation of Social Costs”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 38, 1924, pp. 582ff.
Sraffa, P.—“Sulle relazioni fra costo e quantità prodotta,” Annali di Economia, Bd. II, 1925.
————- “The Laws of Return under Competitive Conditions”, Economic Journal, Vol. 36, December, 1926, p. 535.
Papi, G. U.—Sul costo di produzione nei cicli economica, Rome, 1926.
Del Vecchio, G.—“Il costo quale element della theoria economica,” Giornale degli Economisti, Vol. 67, March, 1926, p. 167.
Robertson, D. H.—“Those Empty Boxes,” Economic Journal, Vol. 34, 1927.
Barone—Grunzüge der theoretischen Nationalökonomie, Bonn, 1927. (Translated by H. Staehle)
Cabiati—“Per riempire alcune ‘empty boxes’ finanziarie,” Giornale degli Economisti, 1928.
Pigou, A. C.—“An Analysis of Supply”, Economic Journal, Vol. 38, June, 1928, p. 238.
Shove, G. F.—“Varying Costs and Marginal Net Products,” Economic Journal, Vol. 38, June, 1928, p. 258.
Robbins, Lionel,–“The Representative Firm”, Economic Journal, Vol. 38, September, 1928, p. 387.
Young, Allyn A.—“Increasing Returns and Economic Progress”, Economic Journal, December, 1928.
Schultz, Henry—Statistical Laws of Demand and Supply, 1928, Chap. IV.
————- “Marginal Productivity and the General Pricing Process”, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 27, October, 1929, p. 505.
Amoroso, Luigi—“La Curva Statica di offerta”, Giornale degli Economisti, January, 1930.
Robertson, D. H., Shove, G.F., and Sraffa, P.—“Increasing Returns and the Representative Firm: a Symposium”, Economic Journal, Vol. 40, March, 1930, pp. 79ff.
Morgenstern, Oskar—“Offene Problem der Kosten- und Ertragstheorie”, Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Band II, Heft 4, March, 1931, pp. 481ff.
Harrod, R. F.—“Notes on Supply, Economic Journal, Vol. 40, June, 1930, pp. 232 ff.
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Economics 402
Prof. Henry Schultz
REFERENCES ON MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION
Cournot, A. A.—Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth, (1838) Bacon’s Translation, Chaps. V-VIII.
Edgeworth, F. Y.—Mathematical Psychics, London, 1881, pp. 20 ff.
————- “Teoria pura del monoplio”, Giornale degli Economisti, November, 1897, pp. 13-31.
————- “The Pure Theory of Monopoly” and
————- “Professor Seligman on the Theory of Monopoly”, in Papers Relating to Political Economy, Vol. I, pp. 111-171.
Bertrand, Joseph—“Review of Walras and Cournot”, Journal des Savants, Paris, September, 1883, pp. 499-508.
Marshall, Alfred—Principles of Economics, 8th edition, Chap. XIV.
Pareto, Vilfredo—Cours d’économie politique, 1909, pp. 595-602.
————- Manuel d’économie politique, 1909, pp. 595-602.
————- “Économie mathématique”, Encyclopédie de Sciences mathématiques, Tome I, Vol 4, Fascicule 4 (1911), paragraph 14, pp. 604-608.
Fisher, Irving—“Cournot and Mathematical Economics”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, January, 1898, p. 126.
Moore, Henry L.—“Paradoxes of Competition”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XX, 1906, pp. 211 ff.
Zawadski, Wl.—Les mathématiques appliquées à l’économie politique, Paris, 1914, pp. 68-75.
Amoroso, Luigi—Lezioni di Economia mathematica, 1921, pp. 254-272.
————- “La Curva Statica di offerta”, Giornale degli Economisti, January, 1930, especially pp. 11-20.
Edgeworth, F. Y.—Review of Amoroso’s Lezioni, Economie Journal, September, 1922, p. 400.
Clark, J. M.—Economics of Overhead Costs, 1923.
Bowley, Arthur L.—The Mathematical Groundwork of Economics, 1924, p. 38.
Young, Allyn A.—Review of Bowley, Journ. Amer. Stat. Assn., Vol. XX, March, 1925, p. 134.
Myrdal, Gunnar—“Prisbildnings Problemet och Föränderligheten”, Uppsala, 1927.
Wicksell, Knut—“Mathematische Nationalökonomie”, Arch. f. Sozialwiss. u. Sozialpol., 1927, pp. 252 ff.
Schumpeter, Joseph—“Zur Einführung der folgenden Arbeit Knut Wicksells”, Arch. f. Sozialwiss. u. Sozialpol., 1927.
Bowley, A. L.—“Bilateral Monopoly,” Economic Journal, Vol. 38, Dec., 1928, pp. 651 ff.
Schumpeter—“The Instability of Capitalism”, Economic Journal, 1928, pp. 369-70.
Hotelling, Harold—“Stability in Competition”, Economic Journal, Vol. 39, March, 1929, pp. 41-57.
Chamberlin, E. H.—“Duopoly: Value Where Sellers Are Few”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XLIV, No. 1, Nov., 1929.
Pigou, Alfred [sic, Arthur]—Economics of Welfare, 3d edition, 1929, Chaps. XIV-XVII.
Evans, G. C.—Mathematical Introduction to Economics, 1930, Chaps. I and III [handwritten note “add solutions (Duopoly)”]
Nichol, Archibald Jamieson—“Partial Monopoly and Price Leadership,” 1930. (Published by the author.)
Schneider, Erich—“Zur Theorie des mehrfachen Monopols, insbesondere der des Duopols”, Archiv. f. Sozialwiss. u. Sozialpol., Vol. 63, Heft 3, 1930, pp. 539-555.
————- “Drei Probleme der Monopoltheorie”, Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, Band II, Heft 3, January, 1931, pp. 376-386.
Zeuthen, F.—Problems of Monopoly and Economic Warfare, London, 1930.
Source: Albert G. Hart Papers. Box 60, Folder “H. Schultz. Math Ec”. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Columbia University.
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Incidentally copies of virtually identical reading lists for Cost Theory and Monopolistic Competition can be found in the Hoover Institution Archives, Milton Friedman Papers, Box 5, Folder 12 (Student years). Friedman’s lists of courses he took with Schultz do not include the course in mathematical economics however.
Identical References for Econ 40 found in University of Chicago Archives. George Stigler Papers, Addenda, Box 33, Folder “1935 Univ. of Chicago Class Notes”.
Handwritten additions to the Henry Schultz papers in the Reference list: Interrelations of Demand, Price and Income, JPE Aug. 1935 and Interrelations of Demand JPE Aug. 1933.