The life and career of Carl Christ has been honored at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror in an earlier post. His syllabus for an econometrics course he taught in 1957 at the University of Chicago has been posted as well. Today we have a new-economics themed macroeconomics course, perhaps inspired by the first year of the legendary Council of Economic Advisers under President John F. Kennedy.
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Political Economy 302:
Economic Theory (Macroeconomics)
Spring 1963
Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Christ
Reading List
- Texts
Bailey, Martin J., National Income and the Price Level, Appendix on Income and Chs. 1, 2, 6,8, 3.
U.S. President, Economic Report, January 1963, as assigned after publication.
- Other Readings
Ackley, Gardner, Macroeconomic Theory, pp. 3-120, Ch. XV, pp. 505-42 and pp. 549-53 (see next item)
Ruggles, Richard and Nancy, National Income Accounts and Income Analysis, 2d ed., pp. 1-143 (an alternative to Ackley, pp. 3-101).
Keynes, J. M., The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
Chs. 1,3; Ch. 6, Sec II; Ch. 7, Sec V; Chs. 8-11; Ch. 12, Secs I-II and p. 164; Chs 13-15; Ch 17, Secs I-IV; Chs 18, 2; Ch 20, Sec [II? or III?].
Samuelson, P.A., “The Simple Mathematics of Income Determination,” in L. Metzler et al, Income Employment and Public Policy
Samuelson, P.A., “Interactions Between the Multiplier Analysis and the Principle of Acceleration,” Rev. Econ. Stat., Vol. 21, No. 2 (May, 1939), pp. 75-78; also in Readings in Monetary Theory.
Patinkin, Don, “Price Flexibility and Full Employment,” in Readings in Monetary Theory.
Mitchell, W. C., “Business Cycles”, in Readings in Business Cycle Theory.
Abramovitz, Moses, “Resource and Output Trends in the U.S. since 1870; Am. Econ. Rev. Vol 36, No. 2 (May, 1956), pp. 5-23; reprinted as N.B.E.R. Occasional Paper No. 52.
Harris, S. E., P. A. Samuelson, G. Haberler, A. H. Hansen, H. C. Wallich, C. L. Schultze, O. Eckstein, and W. L. Smith, “Economic Policy for 1962: A Symposium”, Rev. Econ. Stat.Vol. 44, No. 1 (Feb., 1962), pp. 1-24.
Friedman, Milton, “A Monetary and Fiscal Framework for Economic Stability,” Amer. Econ. Rev. Vol. 38, No. 1 (June, 1948), also in Readings in Monetary Theory, also in Friedman’s Essays in Positive Economics.
Source: Johns Hopkins University. Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Ferdinand Hamburger, Jr. Archives. Department of Political Economy. Series 6, Box 1, Folder 3 “Department of Political Economy, Course Outlines and Reading Lists. C. 1900, c. 1950, 1963-68.”
Image Source: Clipped from the Johns Hopkins University yearbook, Hullabaloo 1964, p. 42.