Anne Pitts Carter is 99 years old at the time of this post. Amanar Akhabbar’s “Anne P. Carter: A Biographical Presentation” (2011) [also available as “Anne P. Carter: A Biographical Note” in Oeconomia (March 2011)] provides full details of the first 85 or so years of her life.
Anne Pitts Carter was awarded a Ph.D. from Radcliffe [Note: her first married-name was “Grosse”] in March 1949. She became an assistant professor of economics at Harvard in 1966-69, was director of the Harvard Economic Research Project 1966-72, and from 1971 on professor of economics at Brandeis.
Today’s post adds the reference list for her seminar on the economics of technological change to the Economics in the Rear-view Mirror collection of course syllabi.
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Course Announcement
Economics 262.
Seminar: The Economics of Technological Change
Half course (spring term) Th., 2-4. Assistant Professor A. P. Carter
Study of the development and diffusion of new techniques and products in the United States and abroad and their impacts on industrial specialization, competitive structure, industrial interdependence, prices and employment, in a general equilibrium framework.
Source: Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. Course of Instruction for Harvard and Radcliffe 1966-67, p. 122.
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SUGGESTED REFERENCES
Economics 262
Seminar: THE ECONOMICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
Assistant Professor Anne P. Carter
Spring 1967
Abramovitz et. al. Allocation of Economic Resources.
Almon, Clopper, The American Economy to 1975.
Arrow, Karlin, Suppes, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences.
Bain, Joe, International Differences in Industrial Structure.
Boon, Gerald K., Economic Choice of Human and Physical Factors in Production. North Holland Publishing Company, 1964.
Bowen, H.R. and Magnum, Automation and Economic Progress.
Bright, F., Automation and Management, Boston, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 1958.
Bright, F., Automation and Technological Change, Columbus, Ohio: Battelle-American Assembly, 1963.
Dunlop, J. T., Automation and Technological Change. (American Assembly)
Dunlop, J.T. and Diatckenko, Labor Productivity.
Jerome, Harry, Mechanization in Industry.
Landsberg, Fishman and Fisher, Resources in America’s Future.
Leontief, et al., Studies in the Structure of the American Economy.
Manne, Alan, Studies in Process Analysis – Cowles Commission Monograph #18.
Melman, Seymour, Dynamic Factors in Industrial Productivity. (John Wiley and Sons, 1956)
National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress
Report: Technology and American Economy
Six Appendices:
The Outlook For Technological Change and Employment
The Employment Impact of Technological Change
Adjusting to Change
Educational Implications of Technological Change
Applying Technology to Unmet Needs
Statements Relating to the Impact of Technological Change
National Bureau of Economic Research, Problems of Capital Formation, Studies in Income and Wealth.
National Bureau of Economic Research, The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity.
National Resources Committee, Technological Trends and National Policy.
Salter, W.E.G., Productivity and Technical Change.
Samuelson, Solow, and Dorman, Linear Programming and Economic Analysis.
Schurr, Netschart, et. al., Energy in the American Economy, 1850-1975.
Sen, A.K., Choice of Techniques.
Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003. Box 9. Folder “Economics, 1966-67”.
Image Source: Peter A. Petri’s webpage “Lemberg Program, 1986-1994”. The image was enhanced using the program Pixelup on my cellphone. To my eye, this AI-smoothed image is very faithful to the original web image.