For the academic year 1908-09 Wesley Clair Mitchell took leave from the University of California to cover three courses previously taught by A. Piatt Andrew at Harvard on money, banking and foreign exchange, and commercial crises. This post provides enrollment figures and the examination questions for the three courses. While I have been unable to […]
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A course on commercial and financial crises has been offered at Harvard nearly every year during the first half of the 20th century. The course was first offered by A. Piatt Andrew (Harvard Ph.D., 1900) who taught at Harvard until 1908. He went on to National Monetary Commission fame and later served in […]
143 Harvard doctoral dissertations in economics are listed here for the period 1875-1929, plus ten Radcliffe dissertations. Some half-dozen are judgment calls, and if anything I have erred on the side of inclusion for the list. It was not until 1904-05 that “Economics” was even listed as a Ph.D. subject at Harvard and the boundary between […]
Today marks the first anniversary of Economics in the Rear-View Mirror. It was conceived as a boutique blog/website that provides transcriptions of material bearing on the education of economists in the United States up to the 1950s. During this first year I have provided postings of some 265 “artifacts” that have attracted over 16,000 page visits between […]
Edwin Francis Gay (1867-1946) came to Harvard in 1902 as an instructor of economic history taking over William Ashley’s courses after having spent a dozen years of training and advanced historical study in Europe (Berlin, Ph.D. in 1902 under Gustav Schmoller, also he was in Leipzig, Zurich and Florence). He and Abram Piatt […]
Complete List of Artifacts This is a chronological catalog of postings to Economics in the Rear-View Mirror. You can subscribe to the blog and receive fresh artifacts in the history of economics (with a focus on the teaching of undergraduate and graduate economics in the U.S. between 1870 and 1970) delivered to your e-mailbox following this […]