In 1910 Harvard published 43 short bibliographies covering “Social Ethics and Allied Subjects”, about half of which were dedicated to particular topics in economics and economic sociology. The project was apparently coordinated by Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Francis G. Peabody.
This post provides the ninth such short bibliography, this one on “Thrift Institutions” prepared by O. M. W. Sprague. Links have been provided to eleven of the thirteen items in Sprague’s bibliography.
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Previously posted short bibliographies
I.1. Harvard. Short Bibliography of Economic Theory for “Serious-minded Students”, Taussig, 1910
I.7. Harvard. Short Bibliography on Social Statistics for “Serious-minded Students”, Ripley, 1910
II.3. Harvard. Short Bibliography of Taxation for “Serious-minded Students”, Bullock, 1910
IV.7. Harvard. Short Bibliography of Trade Unionism for “Serious-minded Students”, Ripley, 1910
IV.8. Harvard. Short Bibliography of Strikes and Boycotts for “Serious-minded Students”, Ripley, 1910
IV.13. Harvard. Short Bibliography of Social Insurance for “Serious-minded Students”, Foerster, 1910
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IV.12. THRIFT INSTITUTIONS
OLIVER M. W. SPRAGUE
Building and loan associations. Ninth report of the United States Commissioner of Labor. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893, pp. 719.
In addition to statistical data, the report contains the laws of all of the states, and much useful matter regarding organization, premium policy and the distribution of profits.
DEXTER, SEYMOUR. A treatise on coöperative savings and loan associations. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, pp. viii, 299.
The classical work on building and loan associations. The analysis of the principles involved is admirable. The appendices contain examples of accounting methods, the laws of some of the states and forms of organization.
HAMILTON, JAMES H. Savings and savings institutions. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902, pp. 436.
The most comprehensive work on the subject. More than one third of the book is given to postal savings banks.
HANGER, G. W. W. Building and loan associations in the United States. Bulletin of the United States Department of Labor. Washington: Government Printing Office (November), 1904, pp. 1491-1572.
The most recent comprehensive account. Full of well-arranged information.
HENDERSON, CHARLES R. Industrial insurance in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1909, pp. 429.
A comprehensive survey of the many varieties of workman’s insurance. A good working bibliography will be found in the appendix.
Proceedings of the United States league of local building and loan associations, 1893-1909, Cincinnati: Press of the American Building Association News, 1893-1909.
An invaluable repository of information and of useful papers upon every aspect of this successful method of social betterment.
WELLDON, SAMUEL A. Digest of state banking statutes. National Monetary Commission publications. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910, pp. 745.
A work which greatly diminishes the labor of the student of legal aspects of the savings bank problem.
WILKINSON, J. FROME. Mutual thrift. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1891, pp. xii, 324.
An historical account of friendly societies in Great Britain, together with an analysis of their actuarial and financial experience.
WILLOUGHBY, WILLIAM F. Workingmen’s insurance. New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1898, pp. 386.
A general survey of the entire field of both voluntary and compulsory insurance. The discussion of the principles involved is excellent.
WOLFF, HENRY W. Coöperative banking; its principles and its practice, with a chapter on coöperative mortgage credit. London: P. S. King & Son, 1907, pp. 317.
WOLFF, HENRY W. People’s banks: a record of social and economic success. Third edition. London: P. S. King & Son, 1910, pp. 587.
Taken together, these books give a sympathetic, enthusiastic and authoritative treatment of a group of institutions which are designed to encourage thrift and also “make the workman his own capitalist. “
Workmen’s insurance and benefit funds in the United States. Twenty-third report of the United States commissioner of labor. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908, pp. 810.
This report covers the entire field indicated by its title, except the industrial insurance departments of the regular companies.
ZARTMAN, LESTER W. Yale readings in insurance. Vol. I, Life insurance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1909, pp. viii, 405.
Twenty-six chapters selected from a variety of sources. About one half the book is devoted to the technique of the subject; history, and economic and public aspects are the concern of the other half.
Source: Teachers in Harvard University, A Guide to Reading in Social Ethics and Allied Subjects, Lists of Books and Articles Selected and Described for the Use of General Readers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1910, pp. 200-202.