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Besides being of interest to us as the first President of the Brookings Institution, Harold Glenn Moulton started his career on the faculty of the University of Chicago after having earned a doctorate there in 1914. This post provides a time line of his career followed by links to some of his early books, a few of which (Principles of Money and Banking, Exercises and Questions for Use with “Principles of Money and Banking”, and The Financial Organization of Society) clearly include course readings used in the Department of Political Economy and the School of Commerce and Administration (i.e. Business School) of the University of Chicago at the time.
Another posting provides interesting anecdotes of a biographical nature up to the time that Moulton moved from Chicago to Washington, D.C. in 1922.
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Harold Glenn Moulton: Life and Career
1883. Born November 7, in Rose Lake Township (later LeRoy), Michigan.
1903-5. Student, Albion College.
1905-7. Student, University of Chicago. Ph.B. (1907)
1908-1909. Teacher at Evanston Academy.
1909-10. Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago.
1910. Travelling Fellow (to Europe for research on transportation systems).
1910-11. Assistant in Political Economy at the University of Chicago.
1911-14. Instructor in Political Economy at the University of Chicago.
1914. Ph.D. awarded, University of Chicago. Thesis title: Waterways vs. railways.
1914-18. Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the University of Chicago.
1918-22. Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Chicago.
1921. Head of the Institute of Economics, Washington, D.C.
1922. Professor of Political Economy at the University of Chicago.
1927-52. President, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
1952. Retirement. Brookings President emeritus.
1965, December 14. Died in Charles Town West Virginia.
Selected early (i.e. downloadable) works by Moulton
Principles of Money and Banking: A Series of Selected Materials, with Explanatory Introductions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1916.
Exercises and Questions for Use with “Principles of Money and Banking”. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1916.
Readings in the Economics of War. J. Maurice Clark, Walton H. Hamilton and Harold G. Moulton (eds.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1918.
The War and Industrial Readjustments. In The University of Chicago War Papers, No. 5. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, April 1918.
The Financial Organization of Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1921.
America and the Balance Sheet of Europe (together with John Foster Bass). New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1921.
The Control of Germany and Japan (together with Louis Marlio). Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1944.
Image Source: The University of Chicago Magazine, Volume V, No. 4 (February 1913), p. 115