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Harvard. Graduate Money and Banking, Reading List, Final Exam. Williams and Goodwin, 1947

 

Today’s post is the second of three devoted to the year long graduate sequence “Principles of Money and Banking” taught by Alvin H. Hansen, John H. Williams, and Richard M. Goodwin (second semester) at Harvard in 1946-47.

The reading list for Econ 141b is transcribed below, along with the corresponding final examination questions. The previous post provided  transcriptions for the first semester’s list of readings and final examination (Econ 141a) and course enrollments in each semester. The next post will have the “General Reference Reading” list for both semesters.

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SECOND SEMESTER
ECONOMICS 141b: PRINCIPLES OF MONEY AND BANKING

III. International Monetary Equilibrium:

  1. Cassel, G., The Downfall of the Gold Standard (1936).
  2. Copland, Douglas, Australia in the World Crisis (1934).
  3. Ellis, H. S., Exchange Control in Central Europe (1941).
  4. Graham and Whittlesey, Golden Avalanche (1939).
  5. Hall, M. F., The Exchange Equalization Account (1935).
  6. Hahn, George, International Monetary Cooperation (1945).
  7. Hansen, Alvin, H., America’s Role in the World Economy (1945).
  8. Hardy, C. O., Is There Enough Gold (1936).
  9. Harris, S. E., Exchange Depreciation (1936).
  10. Harris, S.E., Economic Problems of Latin America (1944).
  11. Iverson, Carl, International Capital Movements (1936).
  12. Kindelberger, C. P., International Short-term Capital Movements (1937).
  13. League of Nations: Final Report on Gold (1932).
  14. League of Nations: Economic Fluctuations in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1918-22 (1942).
  15. Nurkse, R., International Currency Experience (1944).
  16. Warren and Pearson: (a) Gold and Prices (1935);
    (b) World Prices and the Building Industry (1937).
  17. Williams, John H., Postwar Monetary Plans (Second Edition, 1945)

IV. Monetary and Fiscal Policy:

  1. Beveridge, Sir William, Full Employment in a Free Society (1945).
  2. British White Paper on “Employment Policy” (1944).
  3. de Chazeau, Hart, and Others, Jobs and Markets (1946).
  4. Economics of Full Employment. Six Oxford Economists (1945).
  5. Fellner, W., Monetary Policies and Full Employment (1946).
  6. Financing American Prosperity, Twentieth Century Fund (1945).
  7. Groves, H. M.: (a) Production, Jobs and Taxes (1944).
    (b) Postwar Taxation and Economic Progress (1946).
  8. Hansen, Alvin, H., Economic Policy and Full Employment (1946).
  9. Harris, S. E., Postwar Economic Problems (1943).
  10. Harris, S. E., Economic Reconstruction (1945).
  11. Hayes, H. Gordon, Spending, Saving and Employment (1945).
  12. League of Nations: Anti-Depression Policy (1945).
  13. Langum, John K., Postwar Banking Problems (1946).
  14. Postwar Economic Studies No. 3, Public Finance and Full Employment (1945).
  15. Postwar Economic Studies No. 8, Federal Reserve Policy (1946).
  16. Ruml and Sonne, Fiscal and Monetary Policy (1944).
  17. Terborgh, George, The Bogey of Economic Maturity (1945).
  18. Williams, John H. Postwar Monetary Plans (Second Edition, 1945), Chapters 4, 5.

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Alvin Harvey Hansen Papers. Box 1 of Lecture Notes and Other Course Material, Folder “Econs 141”. Also found in Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003 (HUC 8522.2.1) Box 4, Folder “Economics, 1946-47 (2 of 2)”.

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1946-47
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 141b

PRINCIPLES OF MONEY AND BANKING

(Three hours)

Discuss one question in each part.

I

  1. Your own appraisal of Keynes’ “General Theory.”
  2. The consumption function as a guide to monetary and fiscal policy.

 

II

  1. The treatment of the interest rate in modern monetary theory.
  2. Hayek’s criticism of the Foster and Catchings thesis.
  3. Hawtrey’s theory of the business cycle.

 

III

  1. The problem of international monetary and trade adjustment in the postwar world.
  2. One of the following:

(a) The International Monetary Fund;
(b) The International Bank for Reconstruction and development;
(c) The ITO Charter.

  1. Keynes’ paper on the “Balance of Payments of the United States,” Economic Journal, June, 1946.

 

Final. May, 1947.

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University Final Examinations 1853-2001. Box 14. Papers Printed for Final Examinations: History, History of Religions…, Economics, … , Military Science, Naval Science, May, 1947.

Image Source: John H. Williams in Harvard Class Album, 1950.