For some reason this course was inadvertently skipped over when I was posting the 1905-06 Harvard exams earlier. Charles Jesse Bullock was responsible for the fields of public finance and the history of economic thought in the department during the first decades of the twentieth century. There’s more to come.
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Earlier history of economics exams
by year and instructor
1899-1900. The History and Literature of Economics to the close of the Eighteenth Century. [William James Ashley]
1901-02. History and Literature of Economics, to the opening of the Nineteenth Century. [Charles Whitney Mixter]
1903-04. History and Literature of Economics to the opening of the Nineteenth Century [Charles Jesse Bullock]
1904-05. History and Literature of Economics to the year 1848. [Charles Jesse Bullock]
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Course Enrollment
1905-06
Economics 15. Asst. Professor Bullock. — History and Literature of Economics to the year 1848.
Total 7: 7 Graduates.
Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College, 1905-1906, p. 73.
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ECONOMICS 15
HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THEORY
Mid-Year Examination, 1905-06
- What did Aristotle say concerning the following topics: commerce, money, usury, value?
- What economic topics were discussed by the Roman writers?
- Trace briefly the development of the political and economic theories of the Schoolmen.
- Upon what grounds do modern writers defend the prohibition of usury during the Middle Ages?
- What is your opinion of the theories by which the prohibition was upheld?
- Give some account of the economic opinions of Carafa.
- In the economic writings of the sixteenth century, so far as you are acquainted with them, what evidence do you find of continuity in the development of economic doctrine?
- Give an account of the economic opinions of John Hales?
Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University. Mid-year Examinations, 1852-1943. Box 7, Bound Volume: Examination Papers, Mid-Years 1905-06.
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ECONOMICS 15
HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THEORY
Year-end Examination, 1905-06
- What traces of Aristotle’s influence have you found in the economic literature of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries?
- What traces of Scholastic influence can be found in the economic literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
- Give a brief account of the writings and economic opinions of any three of the following men: Misselden, North, Locke, Vanderlint, Decker, and Hume.
- Write a brief account of the progress of economic thought in Italy from 1500 to 1770.
- Write a brief account of the rise and progress of Cameral Science in Germany.
- To what extent were the Physiocrats indebted to previous economic thought?
- What were the chief influences that contributed to the development of Adam Smith’s system of economic doctrine?
- Compare the “Wealth of Nations” with the “Lectures upon Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms.”
Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University, Examination Papers 1873-1915. Box 8, Bound volume: Examination Papers, 1906-07; Papers Set for Final Examinations in History, Government, Economics,…,Music in Harvard College (June, 1906), pp. 40-41.