Alvin Hansen and John H. Williams’ Fiscal Policy Seminar at Harvard was a major parade ground for Keynesian policy ideas in the United States. This post provides a transcription of all 29 pages of bibliography provided for the seminar along with three pages of fiscal policy topics, presumably suggestions for student papers/presentations. An earlier post includes lists of speakers for the first eight years of the seminar.
Harvard’s Fiscal Seminar, speakers 1937-44
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Seminar Enrollment
[Economics] 148a. (fall term) Professors J. H. Williams and Hansen. — (A seminar offered by the Graduate School of Public Administration.) Fiscal Policy.
Total 26: 9 Graduates, 17 Public Administration.
[Economics] 148b. (spring term) Professors J. H. Williams and Hansen. — (A seminar offered by the Graduate School of Public Administration.) Fiscal Policy.
Total 22: 7 Graduates, 1 Graduate Business, 14 Public Administration.
Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College, 1946-47, p. 71.
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ECONOMICS 148
FISCAL POLICY SEMINAR
1946-1947
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- The National Income and Its Composition:
- Books:
Barger, Harold — Outlay and Income in the United States, 1942.
Basic Facts on Employment and Production, U. S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, 19th Congress, First Session, (Committee Print No. 4).
Bowley, A. L. — Studies in the National Income, 1942.
Clark, C. — National Income and Outlay, 1938.
Fabricant, S. — Capital Consumption and Adjustment, 1938.
Friedrich, C. J. and Mason, E. S., editors — Public Policy, Volume II, Chapters VII, 1941.
Hicks, J. R. — The Social Framework, Oxford, 1942.
Hicks and Hart — The Social Framework of the American Economy, Oxford, 1945.
Kuznets, S. — National Income and Capital Formation, 1919-1935, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1937.
Kuznets, S. — National Income and its Composition, 1919-1938, 2 volumes, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1941.
Lindahl, Dahlgren, and Koch — National Income of Sweden, 1861-1930, 1937.
Livingston, S.M. — Markets After the War. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 1943.
Martin, R. F. — National Income in the U.S., 1799-1938, National Industrial Conference Board, 1939.
Meade and Stone, National Income and Expenditure, (Oxford, 1944).
National Wealth and Income —Report by the Federal Trade Commission.
Readings in Income Distribution, Blakiston Co. (1945).
Seventh Report of Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion, July 1, 1946.
Studies in Income and Wealth, National Bureau of Economic Research, 3 volumes, 1937, 1938, and 1939.
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- Articles:
Gilbert, M. — “Measuring National Income as Affected by the War”, Journal of American Statistical Association, June 1942.
Chawner, L. J. — “Capital Expenditure in Selected Manufacturing Industries”, Survey of Current Business, December 1941.
Kaldor, N. — “The 1941 White Paper on National Income and Expenditure”, Economic Journal, June-September 1942.
Kaldor, N., “The 1943 White Paper on National Income and Expenditure,” Economic Journal, June-September 1943.
Harris, S. E. — “The British White paper on War Finance and National Income and Expenditure”, Journal of Political Economy, February 1942.
Copeland, M.A. — “The Defense Effort and the National Income Response Pattern”, Journal of Political Economy, June 1942.
Survey of Current Business — Articles on National Income and Gross National Product, Various Issues, 1942-46.
Stone, Richard — “National Income in the United Kingdom and the United States of America”, Review of Economic Studies, Winter 1942-1943.
Stone, R. — “Two Studies in Income and Expenditure in the U.S.”, Economic Journal, April 1943.
Stone, Richard —“The National Income Output and Expenditure of U.S.A., 1929-1941”, Economic Journal, June-September 1942.
Painter, Mary S. — “Estimates of Gross National Product, 1919-1928”, Federal Reserve Bulletin, September 1945.
Kalecki, M. — “The White Paper on the National Income and Expenditure in the years 1938-43”, Oxford Institute of Statistics Bulletin, July 1, 1944, Volume 6, No. 9.
Dacey, W. M. — “The 1944 White Paper on National Income and Expenditure”, Economic Journal, June-September 1944.
Bangs, R. B. — “The Changing Relation of Consumer Income and Expenditure”, Survey of Current Business, April 1942.
Gilbert, M. and Bangs, R. B. — “Preliminary Estimates of Gross National Product, 1929-1941”, Survey of Current Business, May 1942.
Gilbert, M. — “War Expenditure and National Production”, Survey of Current Business, March 1942.
Gilbert, M. — “U. S. National Income Statistics”, Economic Journal, April 1943.
Gilbert and Jaszi — “The 1945 White Paper on National Income and Expenditure”, Economic Journal, December 1945.
Smith, T. and Merwin, C. — “Corporate Profits and National Income Estimates, Quarterly, 1938-42”, Survey of Current Business, June 1942.
Hance, W. D. — “Estimates of Annual Business Inventories, 1928-1941”, Survey of Current Business, September 1942.
British White Paper on War Finance, Cmd. 6520 (reprinted in Federal Reserve Bulletin, July 1944.)
Stern, E. H. — “Public Expenditure in the National Income”, Economica, May 1943.
Gilbert, Milton; Staehle, Hans; Woytinsky, W. S. — “National Product, War and Prewar: Some Comments on Professor Kuznets’s Study”, Review of Economic Statistics, August 1944.
Hagen, Everett E. — “Postwar Output in the United States at Full Employment”, Review of Economic Statistics, May 1945.
Hagen, E. E. and Kirkpatrick, N. B. — “The National Output at Full Employment in 1950”, American Economic Review, September 1944.
Hoffenberg, M. — “Estimates of National Output, Distributed Income, Consumer Spending, Saving and Capital Formation”, Review of Economic Statistics, May 1943.
“Consumer Incomes and Expenditures in Wartime”, Federal Reserve Bulletin, April 1944.
- Fiscal Policy, Income and Employment
- Books.
Arndt, H. W. — The Economic Lessons of the Nineteen Thirties, Oxford, 1944.
Beveridge, W. H. — Full Employment in A Free Society, 1945.
Burchardt and Others — The Economics of Full Employment: Six Studies in Applied Economics, Oxford University Institute of Statistics, 1944.
Burns, A. E. and Watson, D. S. — Government Spending and Economic Expansion, 1940.
Copland, D. B. — The Road to High Employment, Harvard University Press, 1945.
deChazeau, Hart and Others — Jobs and Markets, McGraw-Hill, 1946.
Financing American Prosperity, A symposium (Anderson, Clark, Ellis, Hansen, Slichter, Williams) Twentieth Century Fund, 1945.
Giblin, L. F. — The Problem of Maintaining Full Employment, Melbourne University, 1943.
Hansen, A. H. — Full Recovery or Stagnation, 1938.
Hansen, A. H. — Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles, 1941.
Hansen, A. H. — Economic Policy and Full Employment, 1946.
Harris, S. E. (editor) — Postwar Economic Problems, McGraw-Hill, 1943.
Harris, S. E. (editor) — Economic Reconstruction, McGraw-Hill, 1945.
Hayes, H. Gordon — Spending, Saving, and Employment, Knopf, 1945.
Keynes, J. M. — General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, Harcourt, 1936.
Lerner, A. P. — The Economics of Control, Macmillan, 1944.
Nathan, Otto — Mobilizing for Abundance, McGraw-Hill, 1944.
National Budgets for Full Employment, National Planning Association.
National Resources Planning Board — The Structure of the American Economy, Part II, Toward Full Use of Resources, 1940.
Pigou, A. C. — Lapses from Full Employment, Macmillan, 1945.
Pigou, A. C. — Employment and Equilibrium, Macmillan, 1941.
Polanyi, M. — Full Employment and Free Trade, Cambridge University Press, 1945.
Pierson, J. H. G. — Full Employment, 1941.
Robertson, D. H. — Essays in Monetary Theory, King, 1940.
Ruml, B. and Sonne, H. C. — Fiscal and Monetary Policy, National Planning Association, 1944.
Seven Harvard and Tufts Economists — An Economic Program for American Democracy, 1938.
Williams, John H. Postwar Monetary Plans, 2nd, 1945.
Wilson, T. — Fluctuations in Income and Employment, 1942.
Wright, D. McC. — Creation of Purchasing Power, 1942.
Committee on National Expenditure (May Committee) Cmd. 3920 (1931)
N.E.C. — Final Report of the Executive Secretary, Chapters 5, 7-13, 16.
Postwar Economic Studies, Nos. 1, 3, and 6, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, 1945-6.
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- Articles:
Lerner, Simons, and Others — “Planning and Paying for Full Employment”, International Postwar Problems, October 1945 and January 1946.
Hardy, C. O. — “Fiscal Policy and National Income: Review”, American Economic Review, March 1942.
Slichter, S. H. — “The Conditions of Expansion”, American Economic Review, March 1942.
Clark, J. M. — “The Relation of Government to the Economy of the Future”, Journal of Political Economy, December 1941.
Temporary National Economic Committee — Review of the Monographs, pp. 573-601, American Economic Review, September 1941.
Gayer, A. D. — “Fiscal Policies”, American Economic Association Proceedings, 1938.
MacGibbon, D. A. — “Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles”, Canadian Journal of Economic and Political Science, February 1943.
Mitchell, W. C. — “Economic Resources in Economic Theory”, University of Pennsylvania Bicentennial Conference, Studies in Economics and industrial Relations, 1941.
Clark, J. M. — “Investment in Relation to Business Activity and Employment”, University of Pennsylvania Bicentennial Conference, Studies in Economics and Industrial Relations, 1941.
Kuznets, S. — “Capital Formation, 1879-1938”, University of Pennsylvania Bicentennial Conference, Studies in Economics and Industrial Relations, 1941.
Slichter, S. H. — “The Development of National Labor Policy”, University of Pennsylvania Bicentennial Conference, Studies in Economics and Industrial Relations, 1941.
Brown, J. D. — “Is Unemployment Inevitable?”, University of Pennsylvania Bicentennial Conference, Studies in Economics and Industrial Relations, 1941.
Berridge, W. A. — “Is Unemployment Inevitable?”, University of Pennsylvania Bicentennial Conference, Studies in Economics and Industrial Relations, 1941.
Clark, J. M. — “An Appraisal of the Workability of Compensatory Devices”, American Economic Review, Proceedings, 1939.
Gayer, A. D. — “Fiscal Policies”, American Economic Review, Proceedings, 1938.
Myrdal, G. — “Fiscal Policy in the Business Cycle”, American Economic Review, Proceedings, 1939.
Seltzer, L. H. — “Direct vs. Fiscal and Institutional Factors”, American Economic Review, Proceedings, 1941.
Simons, H. C. — “Hansen on Fiscal Policy”, Journal of Political Economy, April 1942.
Williams, J. H. — “The Implications of Fiscal Policy for Monetary Policy and the Banking Systems”, American Economic Review, Proceedings, 1942.
Hansen, A. H. — “Income, Consumption, and National Defense”, Yale Review, Autumn, 1941.
Hardy, C. O. — “Fiscal Policy and National Income: Review”, American Economic Review, March 1942.
Somers, H. M. — “The Impact of Fiscal Policy on National Income”, Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, August 1942.
Abbott, C. C. — “Administration of Fiscal Policy”, Harvard Business Review, Autumn, 1944.
Abrahamson, A. G. — “The Problem of Full Employment,” Harvard Business Review, Spring, 1944.
Anderson, Clay J. — “The Compensatory Theory of Public Works Expenditure”, The Journal of Political Economy, September 1945.
Beveridge, Sir W. — “The Government’s Employment Policy”, Economic Journal, June-September 1944.
Copeland, Morris A. — “How Achieve Full and Stable Employment”, American Economic Review, March 1944.
Garland, J. M. — “Some Aspects of Full Employment”, Economic Record, December 1944.
Goldenweiser, E. A. — “Postwar Problems and Policies”, Federal Reserve Bulletin, February 1945.
Pigou, A. C. — “The Classical Stationary State”, Economic Journal, December 1943.
(See also comment by M. Kalecki in Economic Journal, April 1944.)
Gragg, C. I. and Teele, S. F. — “The Proposed Full Employment Act”, Harvard Business Review, Spring 1945.
Hansen, A. H. — “Fiscal Policy: A Clarification”, American Economic Review, June 1945.
Hansen, A. H. — “Three Methods of Expansion Through Fiscal Policy”, American Economic Review, June 1945.
Hansen, Harris, Haberler, Slichter, McNair — “Five Views on the Murray Full Employment Bill”, Review of Economic Statistics, August 1945.
Harrod, R. F. — “Full Employment and Security of Livelihood”, Economic Journal, December 1943.
Herrick, L. — “Employment and Postwar Prosperity”, Yale Review, December 1944.
Hirsch, Julius —“Facts and Fantasies Concerning Full Employment”, American Economic Review, March 1944.
Klein, Lawrence R. — “The Cost of a Beveridge Plan in the United States”, Quarterly Journal, May 1944.
Langer, H. C., Jr. — “Maintaining Full Employment”, American Economic Review, December 1943.
McNair, Malcolm P. — “The Full Employment Problem”, Harvard Business Review, Autumn 1945.
Pierson, J. H. G. — “The Underwriting of Aggregate Consumer Spending as a Pillar of Full-Employment Policy”, American Economic Review, March 1944.
Smithies, Arthur — “Full Employment in a Free Society”, American Economic Review, June 1945.
Smullyan, E. B. — “Seventeen Postwar Plans — The Pabst Postwar Employment Awards”, American Economic Review, March 1945.
Wallich, H. C. — “Income-Generating Effects of a Balanced Budget”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1944.
Warburton, C. — “Normal Production, Income, and Employment, 1945-1965”, Southern Economic Journal, January 1945.
Welcker, J. W. — “The Federal Budget: A Challenge to Businessmen”, Harvard Business Review, Summer 1944.
Williams, John H. — “The Postwar Monetary Plans”, American Economic Review, March 1944.
Williams, R. S. — “Fiscal Policy and Propensity to Consume”, Economic Journal, December 1945.
Woytinsky, W.S. and Halasi, A. — “Prospects of Permanent Full Employment”, International Postwar Problems, September 1944.
Wright, D. McC. — “The Future of Keynesian Economics”, American Economic Review, June 1945.
Wright, D. McC. — “Hopes and Fears — The Shape of Things to Come”, Review of Economic Statistics, November 1944.
Yntema, Theodore O. — “Full Employment in a Private Enterprise System”, American Economic Review, March 1944.
“Employment Policy in Great Britain: The Government’s White Paper”, International Labor Review, August 1944.
Beattie, J. R. — “Some Aspects of the Problem of Full Employment”, Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, August 1944.
Joseph, J. F. W., “The British White Paper on Employment Policy”, American Economic Review, September 1944.
- Saving and Investment
- Books:
Angell, J. W. — Investment and Business Cycles, 1941.
Hansen, A. H. — N. F. C. Hearings, Part IX, 1939.
Long, C. D. — Building Cycles and the Theory of Investment, 1940.
Machinery and Allied Products Institute — Savings and American Progress, December 1937.
Machinery and Allied Products Institute — Savings and Investment in the American Enterprise System, July 1939.
Moulton, H. G. — The Formation of Capital, Brookings, 1935.
National Industrial Conference Board — Capital Formation and Its Elements, 1939.
Postwar Economic Studies, No. 5., Federal Reserve Board, 1946.
Private Capital Requirements, Postwar Economic Studies, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, 1945.
Williams, John H., Postwar Monetary Plans, 2nd, 1946.
N.E.C. Monograph No. 37, Saving, Investment and National Income.
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- Articles:
Freeman and Barre — “Saving and Spending Pattern,” American Economic Review, June 1944.
Ezekiel, M. — “Saving, Consumption and Investment,” American Economic Review, March and June 1942.
Abramovitz, M. —“Savings and Investment: Profits vs. Prosperity,” American Economic Review, Supplement, June 1942.
Silberling, N. J. — “Some Aspects of Durable Consumer Goods Financing and Investment Fluctuations,” American Economic Review, September 1938.
Slichter, S. H. — “The Conditions of Expansion,” American Economic Review, March 1942.
Hoover, C. B. (Chairman) — “Durable Consumers Goods,” American Economic Association Proceedings, 1938.
Weintraub, D. — “Effects of Current and Prospective Technological Developments Upon Capital Formation,” American Economic Association Proceedings, 1939.
Deibler, F. S. (Chairman) — “The Effects of Industrial and Technological Developments Upon the Demand for Capital,” American Economic Association Proceedings, 1939.
Crum, W. L. (Chairman) — “Income and Capital Formation,” American Economic Association Proceedings, 1939.
Ruggles, C. — “Corporate Surpluses, Income and Employment,” American Economic Review, December 1939.
Dirks, F. C. — “Durable Goods Expenditures in 1941,” Federal Reserve Bulletin, April 1942.
Gilboy, E. W. — “The Propensity to Consume,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1938.
Gilboy, E. W. — “Changes in Consumption Expenditures and the Defense Program,” Review of Economic Statistics, November 1941.
Humphrey, D. D. — “The Relation of Surpluses to Income and Employment During Depression,” American Economic Review, June 1938.
Shackle, G. L. S. — “A Means of Promoting Investment,” Economic Journal, June-September 1941.
Simpson, K. — “Securities Markets and the Investment Process,” American Economic Review, Proceedings, 1938.
“Status and Role of Private Investment in the American Economy,” American Economic Review, Proceedings, 1941.
Tucker, R. S. — “Estimates of Savings of American Families,” Review of Economic Statistics, February 1942.
Weintraub, D. — “Effects of Current and Prospective Technological Developments Upon Capital Formation,” American Economic Review, Proceedings, 1939.
Isard, W. A. — “A Neglected Cycle: The Transport-Building Cycle,” Review of Economic Statistics, November 1942.
Hicks, J. R. — “Maintaining Capital Intact: A Further Suggestion,” Economica, May 1942.
Wright, D. McC. — “The interpretation of the Kuznets-Fabricant Figures for ‘Net’ Capital Consumption,” Journal of Political Economy, June 1942.
Fulcher, G. S. — “Annual Saving and Underspending of Individuals 1926-37,” Review of Economic Statistics, February 1941.
Gilbert, R. V. and Perlo, V. — “The Investment Factor Method of Forecasting Business Activity,” Econometrica, July-October 1942.
O’Leary, J. J. — “Malthus and Keynes,” Journal of Political Economy, December 1942.
Terborgh, G. — “Estimated Expenditures for Durable Goods, 1919-1938,” Federal Reserve Bulletin, September 1939.
Anderson, Montgomery, “A Formula for Total Savings,” Quarterly Journal, November 1943.
Jones, M. V. — “Secular and Cyclical Saving Propensities,” Journal of Business, University of Chicago, January 1944.
Leontief, W. W. — “Output, Employment, Consumption, and Investment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1944.
Neisser, Hans— “Government Net Contribution and Foreign Balance As Offset to Savings,” Review of Economic Statistics, November 1944.
Wright, D. McC. — “Limits to the Use of Capital,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1944.
- Technology, Population, and Investment:
- Books:
Gourvitch, Survey of Economic Theory on Technological Change and Employment, W.P.A. National Research Project, Report No. G-6 (1940).
Hearings, Temporary National Economic Committee, Part IX, 1939.
Lederer, E. — Technical Progress and Unemployment, International Labour Office, 1938.
Machinery and Allied Products Institute — Ten Facts on Technology and Employment, February 1936.
Machinery and Allied Products Institute — More Facts on Technology and Employment, April 1936.
Moulton, H. G. et al. — Capital Expansion, Employment and Economic Stability, 1940.
Myrdal, G. — Population, a Problem for Democracy, 1940.
National Resources Committee — Technological Trends and National Policy, 1937.
National Resources Committee — The Problem of a Changing Population, 1938.
Reddaway, W. B. — The Economics of a Declining Population, 1939.
Terborgh, G. — The Bogey of Economic Maturity, Machinery and Allied Products Institute, 1945.
Weintraub, D. — Effects of Technological Developments Upon Capital Formation, National Research Project, Report g-4 (1939).
T.N.E.C. Hearings, Part 30, Technology and Concentration of Economic Power.
T.N.E.C. Monograph, No. 22, Technology in Our Economy.
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- Articles:
Neisser, H. P. — “Permanent Technological Unemployment,” American Economic Review, March 1942.
Dulles, E. — “War and Investment Opportunities: An Historical Analysis,” American Economic Review, Proceedings, March 1942.
McLauchlin, G. E. and Watkins, R. J. — “The Problem of Industrial Growth in a Mature Economy,” American Economic Association Proceedings, 1939.
DuBrul, S.M. (Chairman) — “Expansion and Contraction in the American Economy,” American Economic Association Proceedings, 1939.
Fleming, J. M. — “Secular Unemployment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1939.
Hansen, A. H. — “Extensive Expansion and Population Growth,” Journal of Political Economy, August 1940.
Hawley, A. H. and Bogue, D. J. — “Recent Shifts in Population: 1930-40,” Review of Economic Statistics, August 1942.
Round Table on Population Problems, American Economic Association Proceedings, 1940, pp. 283-298.
Weintraub, D. (Director) — “Unemployment and Increasing Productivity,” National Research Project, W.P.A., 1937.
Weintraub, D. (Director) — “Summary of Findings to Date,” National Research Project, W.P.A., March 1938.
Weintraub, D. — “Effects of Current and Prospective Technological Developments Upon Capital Formation,” National Research Project, 1939.
Gill, C. — “Unemployment and Technological Change,” National Research Project, W.P.A., 1950.
Gourvitch, A. — “Survey of Economic Theory on Technological Change and Employment,” National Research Project, W.P.A., 1940.
Hopkins, J. A. — “Changing Technology and Employment in Agriculture,” National Research Project, W.P.A., 1941.
Fellner, W. — “The Technological Argument of the Stagnation Thesis,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1941.
Lonigan, E. — “The Effect of Modern Technological Conditions Upon the Employment of Labor,” American Economic Review, June 1939.
Staehle, H. — “Employment in Relation to Technical Progress,” Review of Economic Statistics, May 1940.
Hansen, A. H. — “Economic Progress and a Declining Population Growth,” American Economic Review, March 1939.
Keynes, J. M. — “Some Consequences of a Declining Population,” Eugenics Review, Volume XXX, No. 1, April 1937.
Spengler, J. J. — “Population Movements and Economic Equilibrium in the United States,” Journal of Political Economy, April 1940.
Sweezy, A. R. — “Population Growth and Investment Opportunity,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1940.
Hansen, A. H. — “Some Notes on Terborgh’s ‘The Bogey of Economic Maturity,’” Review of Economic Statistics, February 1946.
Wright, D. M. — “Terborgh vs. Hansen,” Review of Economic Statistics, February 1946.
Samuelson, P. A. — “Dynamics, Statics, and the Stationary State,” Review of Economic Statistics, February 1943.
King, W. I. — “Are We Suffering From Economic Maturity?” Journal of Political Economy, October 1939.
Jones, M. V. — “Secular Trends and Idle Resources,” Journal of Business, October 1944.
- The Role of Public Investment
- Books:
Bretherton, Burchardt, Rutherford — Public Investment and the Trade Cycle in Great Britain, 1941.
Duffus, R. L. — The Valley and Its People: A Portrait of TVA, 1945.
Gayer, A. D. — Public Works in Prosperity and Depression, 1935.
Hansen, A. H. and Perloff, H. S. — Regional Resource Development, National Planning Association, 1942.
Housing, Social Security and Public Works, Postwar Economic Studies, No. 6, Federal Reserve Board, 1946.
International Development Loans, National Planning Association, 1942.
Lilienthal, David — V.A. Democracy on the March, (Harpers, 1944).
National Resources Committee — Public Works Planning, Report of the Committee, 1937.
National Resources Planning Board — The Structure of the American Economy, Part II, Toward Full Use of Resources, 1940.
National Resources Planning Board — The Economic Effects of the Federal Public Works Expenditures, 1833-1938, November 1940.
National Resources Planning Board — National Resources Development Report for 1942, January 1942.
Staley, E. — World Economic Development, 1944.
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- Articles:
Government Expansion in the Economic Sphere,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1939.
Lewis, B. W. — “Government Competition and Private Investment,” American Economic Review, June 1939.
Copeland, M.A. — “Public Investment in the United States,” American Economic Association, Proceedings, 1939.
Blakey, R. G. (Chairman) — “The Role of Public Investment and Consumer Capital Formation,” American Economic Association Proceedings, 1939.
“Economic Planning,” pp. 247-280, American Economic Association Proceedings, 1940.
Gibson, A. H. — “Will Banking Eventually Become Nationalized?” Bankers’ Magazine, March 1944.
Hansen, A. H. and Kindleberger, C. — “World Institutions for Stability and Expansion,” Foreign Affairs, January 1944.
Smithies, Arthur — “The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development,” American Economic Review, December 1944.
Benedict, M. R. — “The Relation of Public to Private Lending Agencies (in Agriculture) and Recent Trends in Their Development,” Journal of Farm Economy, February 1945.
- Urban Redevelopment and Housing:
- Books:
Colean, Miles L. — American Housing, Problems and Prospects, 1944.
Greer, G. and Others — The Problem of Urban Redevelopment, Institute on Postwar Reconstruction, 1944.
Greer and Hansen — Urban Redevelopment and Housing, National Planning Association, 1942.
Housing, Social Security, and Public Works, Postwar Economic Studies, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, 1946.
Housing Costs, Bulletin No. 2, National Housing Agency, 1944.
Housing Needs, Bulletin No. 1, National Housing Agency, 1944.
Housing After World War I, Bullentin No. 4, National Housing Agency, 1945.
Hearings on S. 1592, Committee on Banking and Currency, U.S. Senate, 79th Congress, 1st
Land Assembly for Urban Redevelopment, Bulletin No. 3, National Housing Agency, 1945.
National Resources Committee — Housing Monographs, Nos. 1-3, 1939.
National Resources Planning Board — Housing, the Continuing Problem, June 1940.
Postwar Economic Studies, No. 6, Federal Reserve Board, 1946.
Simon, Sir Ernest, Re-building Britain —A Twenty-year Plan (Victor Gollancz, 1945).
Uthwatt Report, Cmd. 6386 (1942).
The Problem of the Cities and Towns — Conference on Urbanism, Harvard University, 1942.
S. 1592, 70th Congress, 2nd Session — An Act to Establish a National Housing Policy.
T.N.E.C. Monograph No. 8, Toward More Housing.
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- Articles:
Greer, Guy — “Housing,” Fortune, November 1944.
Greer, Guy — “A New Start for Cities,” Fortune, September 1944.
Husband, W. H. — “Interest Rates for Home Financing,” American Economic Review, June 1940.
French, D. M. — “The Contest for a National System of Home-Mortgage Finance,” American Political Science Review, February 1941.
“Call of Our Cities, Redevelopment and Postwar Housing,” Survey Graphic, April 1944.
Grebler, L. — “Housing Policy and the Building Cycle,” Review of Economic Statistics, May 1942.
Isard, W. and Isard C. — “The Transport-Building Cycle in Urban Development: Chicago,” Review of Economic Statistics, November 1943.
- Income Distribution, Consumption, and Saving:
- Books:
Bangs, R. B. — The Changing Relation of Consumer Income and Expenditure, April 1942.
Department of Agriculture — Consumer Purchases Studies, on Family Income and Expenditures, 1939-1941.
Family Spending and Saving in Wartime, Bulletin No. 822, U.S. Department of Labor, 1945.
Fisher, A. G. B., Economic Progress and Social Security (Macmillan, 1945).
Haberler, G. — Consumer Instalment Credit and Economic Fluctuations, 1942.
Leven, Moulton and Warburton — America’s Capacity to Consume, Brookings, 1934.
Leven, M. — The Income Structure of the U.S., 1938.
Moulton, H. G. — Income and Economic Progress, Brookings, 1935.
National Resources Committee — Consumer Expenditures in the U.S., 1933-36, 1939.
National Resources Planning Board — Family Expenditures in the U.S., Statistical Tables and Appendices, June 1941.
Nourse, E. G. — America’s Capacity to Produce.
T.N.E.C. Monograph No. 4, Concentration and Composition of Individual Incomes, 1918-1937.
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- Articles:
Tucker, R. S. — “Estimates of Savings of American Families,” Review of Economic Statistics, February 1942.
Green, A. R. — “Social Reconstruction by the Regulation of Incomes,” Economic Journal, April 1942.
Stauffacher, C. — “The Effect of Governmental Expenditures and Tax Withdrawals Upon Income Distribution, 1930-1939,” Public Policy, Volume II, 1941.
Tucker, R. S. — “The National Resources Committee’s Report on Distribution of Income,” Review of Economic Statistics, November 1940.
Gilboy, E. W. — “Income-Expenditure Relations,” Review of Economic Statistics, August 1940.
Pancoast, O., Jr. — “Malthus vs. Ricardo: The Effects of Distribution on Production,” Political Science Quarterly, March 1943.
Samuelson, P. A. — “Fiscal Policy and Income Determination,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1942.
Metzler, L. A. — “Effects of Income Distribution,” Review of Economic Statistics, February 1943.
Pigou, A. C. — “Comparisons of Real Income,” Economica, May 1943.
Rhodes, E.C. — “The Distribution of incomes,” Economica, August 1942.
Smullyan, E. B. — “Net Investment, Consumption and Full Employment,” American Economic Review, December 1944.
Sweezy, A. R. — “Reply (to E. B. Smullyan),” American Economic Review, December 1944.
- Wages, Costs, and Prices:
- Books:
Abramovitz — Price Theory for a Changing Economy (Columbia U. Press, 1939).
Clark, J. M. — Demobilization of Wartime Economic Controls (McGraw-Hill, 1944).
de Chazeau, and others — Jobs and Markets (McGraw-Hill, 1944).
Financing American Prosperity, 20th Century Fund (1945).
Harris, S. E. — Inflation and the American Economy (McGraw-Hill, 1945).
Harris, S. E. — Price and Related Controls in the U.S. (McGraw-Hill, 1945).
Lange, O. — Price Flexibility and Employment, 1944.
National Bureau of Economic Research — Cost Behavior and Price Policy, 1943.
Oxford institute of Statistics, The Economics of Full Employment (Blackwell, 1944).
Pigou, A. C., Lapses from Full Employment (Macmillan, 1945).
Prices, Wages, and Employment, Postwar Economic Studies, no. 4, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, 1946.
T.N.E.C. Hearings, Part 5, Monopolistic Practices in Industries.
National Resources Planning Board, The Structure of the American Economy, Part II (1940).
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- Articles:
Mund, V. A. — “Monopolistic Competition Theory and Public Price Policy,” American Economic Review, December 1942.
Bangs, R. B. — “Wage Reductions and Employment,” Journal of Political Economy, April 1942.
Ezekiel, M. — “Productivity, Wage Rates, and Employment,” American Economic Review, September 1940.
Sweezy, A. — “Wages and Investment,” Journal of Political Economy, February 1942.
Weintraub, S. — “Monopoly Equilibrium and Anticipated Demand,” Journal of Political Economy, June 1942.
Bergson, A. — “Price Flexibility and the Level of Income,” Review of Economic Statistics, February 1943.
Keynes, J. M. — “Relative Movements of Real Wages and Output,” Economic Journal, March 1939.
- Taxation, Investment, and Consumption:
- Books:
Butters, J. K. and Lintner, J. — Effect of Federal Taxes on Growing Enterprises, Study No. 2, Polaroid Corporation, 1945.
Colm, G. and Lehmann, F. — Economic Consequences of Recent American Tax Policy, 1939.
Committee on National Debt and Taxation (Colwyn Committee) Cmd. 2800 (1927).
Curran, Kenneth J. — Excess Profits Taxation, 1943.
Groves, H. M. — Production, Jobs, and Taxes, McGraw-Hill, 1944.
Groves, H. M. — Postwar Taxation and Economic Progress, McGraw-Hill, 1946.
Hazelett, C. W. — Incentive Taxation, 1939.
Hicks, J. R. and U. K. — The Incidence of Social Rates in G. B., (Occasional Paper No. 8 of National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Cambridge U. Press, 1945).
Koch, Albert R. — The Financing of Large Corporations—1929-39, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1943.
Machinery and Allied products Institute — Taxes and American Progress, March 1938.
Mering, O. — The Shifting and Incidence of Taxation, (Blakiston, 1942).
Newcomer, M. — A Tax Policy for Postwar America, Postwar Goals and Economic Reconstruction, Series 2, No. 6, 1943.
Tarasov, Helen, Who Does Pay the Taxes? Supplement IV, Social Research, (1942).
T.N.E.C. Monograph, No. 3, Who Pays the Taxes?
T.N.E.C. Monograph, No. 9, Taxation of Corporate Enterprise.
T.N.E.C. Monograph, No. 12, Profits and New Investment.
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- Articles:
Benham, F. — “What is the Best Tax System?” Economica, May 1942.
Bradley, P. D. — “The Direct Effects of a Corporate Income Tax,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1942.
Gilbert, D. W. — “Taxation and Economic Stability,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1942.
Pettengill, R. B. — “Division of the Tax Burden Among Income Groups in the United States in 1936,” American Economic Review, March 1940.
Kuznets, S. — “National Income and Taxable Capacity,” American Economic Review, Proceedings, March 1942.
Colm, G. — “Full Employment Through Tax Policy? Social Research, November 1940.
Gilbert, D. W. — “Taxation and Economic Stability,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1942.
Paul, R. E. — “Redesigning Federal Taxation,” Harvard Business Review, Winter 1941.
Friedman, M. and Poole, K. E. — “The Spending Tax,” American Economics Review, March 1943.
Boulding, K. E. — “The Incidence of a Profits Tax,” American Economic Review, September, 1944.
Brown E. C. and Patterson, G. — “Accelerated Depreciation: A Neglected Chapter in War Taxation,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1943.
Buehler, A. G. — “The Sales Tax,” Bulletin National Tax Association, February 1945.
Buehler, A. G. — “The Taxation of Business,” Bulletin National Tax Association, December 1944.
Burkhead, J. V. — “Property Tax as a Burden on Shelter,” Journal of Land and Public Utility Economics, August 1944.
Ciriacy-Wantrup, C. — “Taxation and the Conservation of Resources,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1944.
Domar, E. D. and Musgrave, R. A. — “Proportional Income Taxation and Risk-Taking,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1944.
Dowell, A. A. and Toben, G. E. — “Some Economic Effects of Graduated Income Tax Rates on Investors in Farm Capital,” Journal of Farm Economics, May 1944.
Dowsett, W. T. — “The Tax Lag Myth,” Economic Record, December 1944.
Ebersole, J. F. — “Banks Can Make More Postwar Jobs,” Harvard Business Review, Part I, Autumn 1943.
Goode, R. — “The Corporate Income Tax and the Price Level,” American Economic Review, March 1945.
Hubbard, J. C. — “Income Creation by Means of Income Taxation,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1944.
Macy, C. W. — “The Corporation Net Income Tax and the Cost-Price Structure,” Bulletin of National Tax Association, May 1944.
Magill, R. — “Business, Investment and Taxation,” Trusts and Estates, October 1943.
May, G. O. — “Corporate Structures and Federal Income Taxation,” Harvard Business Review, Part I, Autumn 1943.
Wald, H. P. — “A Comparative Analysis of Three Variations of Retail Sales Taxes,” American Economic Review, June 1944.
Ballantine, A. A. — “The Corporation and the Income Tax,” Harvard Business Reivew, Spring 1944.
- The Public Debt and Debt Management
- Books:
Cadman, F. F. — National Income and Deficit Financing, 1939.
Colwyn Report, Committee on National Debt and Taxation, Cmd. 2800, (1927).
Ellis, P. W. — The World’s Biggest Business —American Public Spending, 1914-1944, 1944.
Fine, Sherwood — Public Spending and Postwar Economic Policy, 1944.
Moulton, H. G. — The New Philosophy of Public Debt, Brookings, 1943.
Phillips, C. F. and Garland, J. V. — Government Spending and Economic Recovery, 1938.
Public Finance and Full Employment, Postwar Economic Studies, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, 1946.
Seckler-Hudson, C. (Editor) — The Evolution of the Budgetary Concept in The Federal Government, 1944.
Villard, H. H. — Deficit Spending and the National Income, 1941.
Williams, J. H. — Post War Monetary Plans, (2nd 1945).
(See also titles in other sections)
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- Articles:
Ratchford, B. U. — “The Burden of a Domestic Debt,” American Economic Review, September 1942.
Haley, B. F. — “The Federal Budget: Economic Consequences of Deficit Financing,” American Economic Review, Proceedings, 1941.
Hansen, A. H. and Greer, Guy — “The Federal Debt and the Future, Harpers, April 1942.
Higgins, B. and Musgrave, R. A. — “Deficit Finance —The Case Examined,” Public Policy, Volume II, 1941.
Smith, D. T. — “Is Deficit Spending Practical?” Harvard Business Review, Autumn 1939.
Williams, J. H. — “Federal Budget: Economic Consequences of Deficit Spending,” American Economic Review, Proceedings, 1941.
Williams, J. H. — “The Implications of Fiscal Policy for Monetary Policy and the Banking System,” American Economic Review, Proceedings, 1942.
Mitnitzky, M. — “Aspects of Government Borrowing,” American Economic Review, March 1943.
Roberts, R. O. — “Ricardo’s Theory of Public Debts,” Economica, August 1942.
Domar, E. D. — “The ‘Burden of the Debt’ and the National Income,” American Economic Review, December 1944.
Hansen, A. H. — “National Debt, Flexible Budget and Tax Cut,” Bulletin of National Tax Association, May 1944.
Poindexter, J. C. — “Fallacies of Interest-Free Deficit Financing,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1944.
Stettner, Walter F. — “Sir James Stewart on the Public Debt,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1945.
Warburton, Clark. — “The Monetary Theory of Deficit Spending,” Review of Economic Statistics, May 1945.
Wright, D. McC. — “Interest-Free Deficit Financing: A Reply,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1944.
Bell, E. V. — “Consequences of $300,000,000,000 Debt,” Savings Bank Journal, February 1945.
Lanston, A. G. — “Crucial Problems of the Federal Debt,” Harvard Business Review, Winter 1946.
Leland, S. E. — “The Government, the Banks, and the Debt,” Commercial and Financial Chronicle, January 17, 1946.
Slater, A. — “U.S. Debt Pattern,” (Public and Private Debt), Survey of Current Business, September 1945.
Shoup, Carl — “Postwar Federal Interest Charge,” Supplement of American Economic Review, Part 2, June 1944.
Simons, H. C. — “On Debt Policy,” Journal of Political Economy, December 1944.
Simons, H. C. — “Debt Policy and Fiscal Policy,” Rev. of Econ. Stat., May 1946.
Abbott, Charles C. — “Management of the Federal Debt,” Harvard Business Review, Autumn 1945.
Leland, Simeon E. — “Management of the Public Debt After the War,” American Economic Review Supplement, Part 2, June 1944.
Symposium on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Rev. of Econ. Stat., May 1946.
- Fiscal Policy and the War Economy:
- Books:
Crowther, G. — Ways and Means of War, 1940.
Crum, Fennelly, Seltzer — Fiscal Planning for Total War, 1942.
Durbin, E. F. M. — How to Pay for the War, 1941.
Harris, S. E. — Economics of American Defense.
Hart and Allen — Paying for Defense, 1941.
Hicks, J. R., Hicks, U. K., and Rostas, L. — The Taxation of War Wealth, 1941.
Keynes, J. M. — How to Pay for the War, Harcourt, 1940.
Parkinson, J. F. — Canadian War Economics, 1941.
Seidemann, H. P. — Curtailment of Non-Defense Expenditures, Brookings Institution Pamphlet No. 30, 1941.
Spiegel, H. W. — The Economics of Total War, 1942.
Stein and Backman (Editors) — War Economics, 1942.
Tax Institute Symposium — Financing the War, 1942.
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics — Study of Consumer Purchases, 1939-1941.
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- Articles
“Billions for Defense,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 1941.
“Bank Credit and War Finance,” Federal Reserve Bulletin, June 1942.
Clark, J. M. — “Further Remarks on Defense Financing and Inflation,” Review of Economic Statistics, August 1941.
Crum, W. L. — “Paying for the War,” Academy of Political Science Proceedings, May 1942.
Douglas, M. — “Limitations of the Financial Factor in a War Economy,” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, August 1942.
Eccles, M. S. — “How Shall We Pay for the War?”, Federal Reserve Bulletin, March 1942.
George, C. O. — “British Public Finance in Peace and War,” Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Part III, 1941.
Hansen, A. H. — “Monetary and Fiscal Controls in Wartime,” Yale Review, Winter 1940.
Hansen, A. H. — “Defense Financing and Inflation Potentialities,” Review of Economic Statistics, February 1941.
Hansen, A. H. — “Some Additional Comments on the Inflation Symposium,” Review of Economics Statistics, May 1941.
Hansen, A. H. and Others — “Some Economic Problems of War, Defense, and Postwar Reconstruction,” American Economic Review, February 1941.
Hansen, A. H. — “We Can Pay the War Bill,” The Atlantic, October 1942.
Hart, A. G. — “Flexible Taxes to Combat Inflation,” American Economic Review, March 1942.
Hart, A. G. — “What It Takes to Block Inflation,” Review of Economic Statistics, August 1942.
Feiler, A. — “‘Full Employment of Resources’ and War Economy,” (Note) Social Research, February 1942.
Mackintosh, W. A. — “Canadian War Financing,” Journal of Political Economy, August 1942.
Polak, J. J. — “Rationing of Purchasing Power to Restrict Consumption,” Economica, August 1941.
Roberts, G. and Others — “War Finance and Inflation,” Academy of Political Science Proceedings, May 1942.
Villard, H. H. — “The Effect of the War Upon Capital Markets,” American Economic Review Proceedings, March 1942.
Viner, J. — “Inflation: Menace or Bogey?” Yale Review, Summer 1942.
Blakey, R. G. and G. C. — “The Revenue Act of 1941,” American Economic Review, December 1941.
Weintraub, S. — “Compulsory Savings in Great Britain,” Harvard Business Review, Autumn 1941.
Hansen, A. H. — “Changes in Economic Structure Arising Out of the War and Their Implications for Public Policy,” Part III, Chapter IV, Public Policy, Volume III, Harvard University, 1942.
Fellner, W. — “War Finance and Inflation,” American Economic Review, June 1942.
Salant, W. A. — “The Inflationary Gap,” American Economic Review, June 1942.
Pigou, A. C. — “Types of War Inflation,” Economic Journal, December, 1941.
Nathan, O. and Fried, M. — “Consumer Spending, Inflation and the Wage Earner in the United States,” International Labour Review, February 1942.
Blakey, R. G. and C. C. — “Federal Revenue Legislation, 1943-44,” American Political Science Review, April 1944.
Ensley, G. W. — “Budget for the Nation,” Social Research, September 1943.
Haig, R. M. — “The Background of Our War Finance,” Political Science Quarterly, September 1943.
Harris, C. L. — “Revenue Implications of a Progressive-Rate Tax on Expenditure,” Review of Economic Statistics, August 1943.
Mosak, J. L. and Salant, W. S. — “Income, Money, and Prices in War-Time,” American Economic Review, December 1944.
Newcomer, M. — “Congressional Tax Policies in 1943,” American Economic Review, December 1944.
Seligman, H. L. — “Patterns of Wartime Borrowing in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada,” Federal Reserve Bulletin, November 1944.
Allen, E. D. — “Treasury Tax Policies in 1943,” American Economic Review, December 1944.
Hansen, A. H. — “A General View of the Institutional Effects of the War,” American Economic Review Supplement, March 1942.
Musgrave, R. A. and Seligman, H. L. — “The Wartime Tax Effort in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada,” Federal Reserve Bulletin, January 1944.
- Fiscal Policy in the Post War:
- Books:
Clark, C. — The Conditions of Economic Progress, 1940.
Eccles and Others — Curbing Inflation Through Taxation, Symposium, Tax Institute, 1944.
Galloway, G. B. and Associates — Planning for America, 1941.
Galloway, G. B. — Postwar Planning in the U.S., 1942.
Hansen, A. H. — After the War — Full Employment, National Resources Planning Board, January 1942; Revised, February 1943.
National Planning Association, Pamphlet No. 15 — International Development Loans, September 1942.
Shoup, C. — Federal Finances in the Coming Decade, 1941.
Shoup, Carl; Friedman, Milton; and Mack, Ruth P. — Taxing to Prevent Inflation, 1943.
Financing American Prosperity; 20th Century Fund (1945).
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- Articles:
Hansen, A. H. — “Wanted: Ten Million Jobs”, Atlantic Monthly, September 1943.
Hansen, Alvin H., and Guy Greer — “Toward Full Use of Our Resources”, Fortune, November 1942.
“From War to Work”, (Articles by Sir Arthur Greenwood, Marriner Eccles, B. Ruml, Sidney Hollman, Walther Nash, Alvin Hansen) Survey Graphic, May 1943.
Clark, J. M. — “Economic Adjustments After Wars: The Theoretical Issues”, American Economic Review Supplement, March 1942.
Blakey, R. G. — “State and Local Postwar Financial Policies”, Bulletin of National Tax Association, March 1944.
Burrell, O. K. — “The Pattern of Postwar Federal Taxes”, Oregon Business Review, December 31, 1944; January 31, 1945.
Butters, J. Keith — “An Appraisal of Postwar Tax Plans”, Harvard Business Review, Winter 1945.
Butters, J. Keith — “Tax Revisions for Reconversion Needs”, Harvard Business Review, Spring 1944.
Eccles, M. S. — “Statement on a Capital Gains Tax to Curb Rising Prices of Capital Values”, Federal Reserve Bulletin, March 1945.
Groves, Harold M. — “Revising the Postwar Federal Tax System”, American Economic Review Supplement, Part 2, June 1944.
Haygood, T. F. — “Federal Fiscal Measures and Agricultural Prosperity”, Agricultural Financial Review, November 1944.
Heer, C. — “Styles in Postwar Taxation”, (Review Article), Bulletin of National Tax Association, December 1944.
Houston, G. S. — “Postwar Taxes: Individuals vs. Corporate Tax Reduction”, Trusts and Estates, December 1944.
Howenstine, E. J., Jr. — “Methods of Federal Financing of Postwar Public Works”, Bulletin of National Tax Association, February 1945.
Lerner, A. P. — “Government Spending, Public Debt and Postwar Taxation”, International Postwar Problems, January 1945.
Lutz, H. L. — “A Postwar Tax Program”, Bulletin of National Tax Association, June 1944.
Musgrave, R. A. — “Three Plans for Postwar Taxation: A Comparison of the CED, Twin Cities and Ruml-Sonne Tax Proposals”, Federal Reserve Bulletin, December 1944.
Shoup, C. — “Three Plans for Postwar Taxation”, American Economic Review, December 1944.
Slichter, S. H. — “Present Savings and Postwar Markets”, Harvard Business Review, Part II, Autumn 1943.
Spero, H. and Leavitt, J. A. — “Inflation as a Postwar Problem”, Journal of Political Economy, August 1943.
Wolman, Leo — “Policies of Postwar Employment”, Political Science Quarterly, December 1943.
“Possibilities of Postwar Inflation and Suggested Tax Action”, Federal Reserve Bulletin, March 1944.
“Slowing Down of Credit Expansion”, Federal Reserve Bulletin, June 1944.
“War Finance and Banking”, Federal Reserve Bulletin, August 1944.
“The Wartime Expansion of Liquid Assets”, Federal Reserve Bulletin, October 1944.
Bell, D. W. — “Financing the War and the Postwar Readjustment”, Federal Reserve Bulletin, January 1944.
Hansen, A. H. and Kindleberger, C. P. — “The Economic Tasks of the Postwar World”, Foreign Affairs, April 1942.
Hansen, A. H. — “Changes in Economic Structure Arising Out of the War and Their Implications for Public Policy”, Public Policy, Volume III, 1942.
Slichter, S. H. — “Postwar Boom or Collapse”, Harvard Business Review, Autumn 1942.
Thorp, W. L. — “Postwar Depressions”, American Economic Review Proceedings, 1941.
Gustin, R. P. and Holme, S. A. — “An Approach to Postwar Planning”, Harvard Business Review, Summer 1942.
- Inter-governmental Relations:
- Books:
Federal, State, and Local Government Fiscal Relations, U.S. Treasury Department, 1943.
Hansen and Perloff — State and Local Finance in the National Economy, 1944.
Hicks, J. R. and U. K. — Standards of Local Expenditure, Macmillan, New York, 1943.
Silver, A. N. — The Reform of Local Government Finance, 1945.
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- Articles:
Blakey, R. G. (Chairman) — “Coordination of Federal, State and Local Fiscal Systems”, American Economic Review Supplement, March 1942.
Blakey, R. G. — “State and Local Taxation of Federal Property”, Bulletin of National Tax Association, January 1945.
Graves, W. B. and Scholz, K. W. H. — “Meeting the Needs for State and Local Revenues in the Postwar Era”, American Political Science Review, October 1944.
Haig, R. M. — “Federal-State Financial Relations: A Conscientious Governor Studies a Senate Document,” Political Science Quarterly, June 1944.
Heer, C. — “State and Local Finance in the Postwar Plans of the South,” Southern Economic Journal, January 1945.
Hicks, J. R. and U. K. — “The Beveridge Plan and Local Government Finance”, Review of Economic Studies, Winter, 1943.
Kaiser, A. R. — “Coordination of Federal and Local Revenue Sources”, Bulletin of National Tax Association, November 1944.
Pond, C. B. — “Impact of the War on State Tax Systems”, Bulletin of National Tax Association, November 1943.
Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in economics, 1895-2003. Box 4, Folder “Economics 1946-47 (2 of 2)”.
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ECONOMICS 128
FISCAL POLICY SEMINAR
1946-1947
TOPICS ON FISCAL POLICY
- Fiscal policy as a business-cycle control measure contrasted with fiscal policy as a means for structural readjustment.
- The fiscal problems growing out of war and depression contrasted.
- Deficit spending and its limits.
- A high-consumption economy vs. a high-savings economy.
- The dual economy and its relation to stability and full employment; the role of the government corporation (T.V.A., R.F.C., etc.); the program of the British Labor Party.
- The relation between income, output, and employment in the short run and in the long run.
- The public debt as an instrument of fiscal policy.
- The economic background of war-time expansion in the United States compared with that in Great Britain.
- Increased production vs. reduced consumption as war-time anti-inflation measures.
- Consumption, investment, income, and national expenditure in war time.
- The relation and importance of the various war-time control schemes (direct controls, monetary controls, fiscal controls).
- The timing of the various control measures in the transition period.
- Federal non-armament expenditures during the war.
- The control of non-essential investments in war time.
- A sharply progressive income tax vs. consumption taxes as a means to reduce war-time consumption.
- The relation between taxation and borrowing at different stages in the war and transition periods.
- Fiscal policy and the control of inflation in the postwar.
- “Easy money” and the role of monetary control in the prevention of postwar inflation.
- The taxation of war wealth.
- The Keynes plan of deferred wage payments as a means to prevent war-time inflation.
- Accumulation of social security reserves as a means to prevent war-time inflation.
- Forecasting and the timing of fiscal control measures in the postwar.
- Fiscal policy as a measure against:
- a postwar inflation,
- a postwar slump.
- Public investments and relief expenditures in the postwar period.
- Fiscal policy and the redistribution of income.
- The shift from a “free market” to a planned economy.
- British discussions on postwar debt and the wisdom of a capital levy.
- British and American postwar debt problems contrasted.
- Establishment of a monetary and fiscal authority to administer a flexible fiscal policy.
- Effective fiscal policy as a means of securing international stability.
- Trends in intergovernmental fiscal relations since the first World War.
- The shift of functions toward the central government in Canada and the U.S. and fiscal implications of this development.
- Efforts toward limiting the property tax and substituting other tax sources.
- A reorganized system of federal, state, and local taxation.
- The relation between the spending unit and the revenue-raising unit as a test of financial efficiency.
- Administrative reorganization as a prerequisite for intergovernmental fiscal reorganization.
- State control of local finance.
- Methods of revenue sharing between federal, state, and local government.
- The relation between federal, state, and local debt.
- Federal fiscal policy and the redistribution of income among the various states.
- The impact of the war on the fiscal relations between federal, state, and local government.
- War prosperity and the financial situation of the local governmental units.
- Trends in federal-local fiscal relations in Australia, Canada, and Great Britain.
- The relation between the federal debt and liquid assets.
- The relation between the public debt and the money supply.
- The public debt and the commercial banks.
- The relation between public debt retirement and the maintenance of private savings.
- The monetization of the debt.
- Interest-free financing proposals.
- Debt retirement and the “100 per cent money” proposal.
- Recent trend among some economists to emphasize monetary rather than fiscal policy.
- The inter-relations between monetary and fiscal policy.
- The effect of increased taxation on new enterprise.
- The effect of increased taxation on investment.
- The effect of increased taxation on consumption.
- The effect of modern progressive tax structures (England, Canada, U.S.) on income distribution.
- Comparison of the effects of:
- capital gains tax,
- inheritance tax,
- income tax,
…on enterprise and investment.
- Comparison of postwar federal tax plans.
- The proposal to tax idle money.
- The proposal to underwrite private consumer expenditures.
Source: Harvard University Archives. Alvin Harvey Hansen. Lecture Notes and Other Course Material. Box 1 [might be box 3], Folder “Econs. 148”.
Image Source: Hansen (left), Williams (right). Harvard Class Album, 1942.