The outlines and reading assignments for both the Fall and Spring terms of Seymour Harris’ undergraduate course “Money, Banking, and Cycles” have been transcribed for the academic year 1933-34. The final exam for the first term devoted to monetary theory and monetary policy has been posted separately..
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Final Examination
Money, Banking, and Cycles
Seymour Harris
1933-34
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 3
Answer 1, 2, and THREE other questions.
- (One hour.) Contrast Keynes’ recent views on the value of money with his earlier views.
- Answer one of the following questions:
- What, in Akerman’s views, are the possibilities of averting economic crises? What are the most effective methods of doing so?
- Discuss the important issues raised by the restrictions of payments in Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars.
- Describe the attempts made in the last quarter of the nineteenth century to redress the Crime of 1873.
- What features of the early banking history of the United States contribute towards and explanation of the National Banking Act?
- Do movements in exchanges determine prices, or do prices determine the exchanges? Discuss and illustrate.
- What is the meaning of the purchasing power of money as used by three monetary theorists?
- “The severity of the World Depression may be attributed to the faulty working of the Gold Standard.” Discuss.
- Are monetary measures adequate to cope with a major business depression?
Final. 1934.
Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University. Examination Papers, Finals (HUC 7000.28, 76 of 284), [June?] 1934.
Image Source: Seymour Harris from Harvard Class Album, 1935.