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Image Source:  Walter Isard, ca. 1960. From David Boyce presentation: Leon Moses and Walter Isard: Collaborators, Rivals or Antagonists.

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Harvard Ph.D. (1943)

WALTER ISARD, A.B. (Temple Univ.) 1939, A.M. (Harvard Univ.) 1941.
Subject, Economics. Special Field, Economic Fluctuations and Forecasting.
Thesis, “The Economic Dynamics of Transport Technology.”

Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College, 1942-43, p. 105.

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Tentative Schedule of Topics

Economics 235—Problems of Location of Economic Activities
Fall Term—M.W.F. at 9 A.M.

  1. Realistic Theory
    1. Introduction
    2. Transport Orientation
    3. Labor Orientation
    4. Other Orientation
    5. Agglomeration
    6. Competing Market and Supply Areas, Theory of Space Pricing (Basing Point included)
    7. Agricultural Location Theory (with reference to an aggregate)
    8. The General Equilibrium Framework (The Total Picture of a Space-Economy—The Interaction of the Industrial and Agricultural Sectors)
  2. Empirical Analysis with Special Reference to Regional Development
    1. Case Studies
      1. Iron and Steel Industry
      2. Glass Industry
      3. Aluminum Industry
    2. Trends—Past and Near Future
      1. General Historical Background
      2. Changes in Resource Utilization and in the Pull of Materials, Markets, and Labor Locations
      3. Industrial Concentration and Dispersion
      4. Urban-Metropolitan Development Processes
      5. Regional Industrialization Processes
  3. The Far Future: Technique in Predictive Analysis
    1. Implications of Atomic Energy
    2. Implications of Aircraft and other Innovations

Summary

[Note:  A.1 through A.5 above—“With reference to the individual firm and the industry as well as to groups of industries]

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Economics 235a—Economics of Location and Regional Development: Principles

Fall Term—M.W.F. at 9 A.M.

Readings

  1. Introduction
    Required reading

    1. Alfred Weber’s Theory of Location of Industries (ed. by C. J. Friedrich), Introduction and Chap. I
    2. A.P. Usher, A Dynamic Analysis of the Location of Economic Activity, section 1

Supplementary reading

    1. T. Palander, Beiträge zur Standortstheorie, Chaps. I, II, V
    2. H. Schumacher, “Location of Industry,” Encyclopaedia of Social Sciences, Vol. V, pp. 585-92
    3. S.R. Dennison, Location of Industry and Depressed Areas, Chaps. I, II
    4. F. M. Hoover, The Location of Economic Activity, Chap. I

 

  1. Transport Orientation
    Required reading

    1. Alfred Weber’s Theory of Location of Industries, Chaps. II, III
    2. E.M. Hoover, Location Theory and the Shoe and Leather Industries, Chaps. I, II, and pp. 34-42
    3. William H. Dean, Jr., The Theory of the Geographic Location of Economic Activities (Selections), Chap. II
    4. A.P. Usher, A Dynamic Analysis of the Location of Economic Activity, section 4

Supplementary reading

    1. National Resources Planning Board, Industrial Location and National Resources, Chaps. 6, 9, 10
    2. T. Palander, Beiträge zur Standortstheorie, Chaps. VI-IX, XII
    3. E.M. Hoover, The Location of Economic Activity, Chaps. 2, 3, 4 (for an elementary presentation)
    4. A. Lösch, Die räumliche Ordnung der Wirtschaft, Part I (for general theoretical reading)
    5. E. Niederhauser, Die Standortstheorie Alfred Webers (for general theoretical reading)
    6. O. Englander, “Kritisches und Positives zu einer allgemeinen reinen Lehre vom Standort,” Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Sozialpolitik, Vol. V (New Series), 1926, secs. I and II
    7. S.R. Dennison, Location of Industry and Depressed Areas, Chap. III

 

  1. Labor and Other Orientation
    Required reading

    1. Alfred Weber’s Theory of Location of Industries, Chap. IV
    2. E.M. Hoover, Location Theory and the Shoe and Leather Industries, Chaps. IV, V
    3. A.P. Usher, A Dynamic Analysis of the Location of Economic Activity, section 10

Supplementary reading

    1. E.M. Hoover, The Location of Economic Activity, Chaps. V and VII (elementary presentation)
    2. National Resources Planning Board, Industrial Location and National Resources, Chaps. 7, 8, 11, 12, 13
    3. O. Englander, “Kritisches und Positives zu einer allgemeinen reinen Lehre vom Standort,” Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Sozialpolitik, Vol. V (New Series), 1926, sec. III
    4. H. Ritschl, “Reine und historische Dynamik des Standortes der Erzeugungszweige,” Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 51, 1927, secs. I-III
    5. S.R. Dennison, Location of Industry and Depressed Areas, Chaps. IV, V
  1. Agglomeration
    Required reading

    1. Alfred Weber’s Theory of Location of Industries, Chaps. V, VI
    2. E.M. Hoover, Location Theory and the Shoe and Leather Industries, Chap VI
    3. William H. Dean, Jr., The Theory of the Geographic Location of Economic Activities (Selections), Chap. V

Supplementary reading

    1. National Resources Planning Board, Industrial Location and National Resources, Chaps. 14, 15, 16, 17
    2. O. Englander, “Kritisches und Positives zu einer allgemeinen reinen Lehre vom Standort,” Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Sozialpolitik, Vol. V (New Series), 1926, sec. IV.
    3. E.A.G. Robinson, The Structure of Competitive Industry

 

  1. Market and Supply Areas
    Required reading

    1. A. Lösch, “The Nature of Economic Regions,” Southern Economic Journal, Vol. V, 1938, pp. 71-78
    2. E.M. Hoover, Location Theory and the Shoe and Leather Industries, pp. 42-59
    3. C.D. and W.P. Hyson, “the Economic Law of Market Areas,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1950

Supplementary reading

    1. A. Lösch, Die räumliche Ordnung der Wirtschaft, Part II
    2. T. Palander, Beiträge zur Standortstheorie, Chap. XIV
    3. H. Hotelling, “Stability in Competition,” Economic Journal, Vol. 39, March 1929, pp. 41-57
    4. E. Chamberlin, The Theory of Monopolistic Competition, 3rded., especially Appendix C, “Pure Spatial Competition”
    5. A.P. Lerner and H.W. Singer, “Some Notes on Duopoly and Spatial Competition,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 45, 1937, pp. 145-86
    6. A. Robinson, “A Problem in the Theory of Industrial Location,” Economic Journal, Vol. 51, June-Sept. 1941, pp. 270-75
    7. E.M. Hoover, “Spatial Price Discrimination,” The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. IV, No. 3, pp. 182-91
    8. A. Smithies, “Monopolistic Price Policy in a Spatial Market,” Econometrica, Vol. 9, 1941, pp. 63-73
    9. _____, “Optimum Location in Spatial Competition,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 44, June 1941, pp. 423-39
    10. H. Moller, “Grundlagen einer Theorie der regionalen Preisdifferenzierung,” Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Bd. 58, 1943, pp. 335-90
    11. G. Ackley, “Spatial Competition in a Discontinuous Market,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 56, Feb. 1942, pp. 212-30
    12. S. Enke, “Space and Value,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LVI, Aug. 1942, pp. 627-37
    13. T.N.E.C. Monograph No. 42
    14. F. Machlup, The Basing Point System, Chaps. 4, 5, 6, 7
    15. S. Enke, Equilibrium among Spatially Separated Markets: Solution by Electric Analogue,” Econometrica, January 1951

 

  1. Agricultural Location Theory
    Required reading

    1. Theodor Brinckmann’s Economics of the Farm Business, pp. 1-27, 61-63, 66, 73, 78-111, 142-63

Supplementary reading

    1. J.D. Black et al., Farm Management, Chap. XVI
    2. Theodor Brinckmann’s Economics of the Farm Business, pp. 27-61, 111-163
    3. T. Palander, Beiträge zur Standortstheorie, Chaps. III, IV
    4. A. Lösch, Die räumliche Ordnung der Wirtschaft, Chap. 5
    5. F. Aereboe, Allgemeine landwirtschaftliche Betriebslehre, Parts III, V
    6. J.H. von Thünen, Der isolierte Staat in Beziehung auf Landwirtschaft und Nationalökonomie

 

  1. The General Equilibrium Framework
    Required reading

    1. A. Predöhl, “The Theory of Location in Relation to General Economics,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 36, June 1928
    2. B. Ohlin, Interregional and International Trade, Preface
    3. Alfred Weber’s Theory of Location of Industries, Chap. VII
    4. Isard, “The General Theory of Location and Space Economy,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1949
    5. _____, “Distance Inputs and the Space-Economy: Part I, The Conceptual Framework; Part II, The Locational Equilibrium of the Firm,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, May and August, 1951

Supplementary reading

    1. H. Weigmann, “Ideen zu einer Theorie der Raumwirtschaft,” Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Vol. 34, 1931, pp. 1-40
    2. ______, “Standortstheorie und Raumwirtschaft,” in Johann Heinrich von Thünen zum 150. Geburtstag (ed. By W. Seedorf and H. G. Seraphim)
    3. A. Predöhl, “Das Standortsproblem in der Wirtschaftstheorie,” Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Bd. XXI, 1925
    4. B. Ohlin, Interregional and International Trade, Chaps. VIII-XII
    5. T. Palander, Beiträge zur Standortstheorie, Chaps. X and XI
    6. O. Englander, “Kritisches und Positives zu einer allgemeinen reinen Lehre vom Standort,” Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Sozialpolitik, Vol. V (New Series), 1926, sec. V-VIII
    7. L. Miksch, “Zur Theorie des räumlichen Gleichgewichts,” Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Bd. 66, 1951
    8. A. Predöhl, Aussenwirtschaft, 1949

 

  1. Regional and Interregional Input-Output Analysis
    Required reading

    1. W.W. Leontief, “Interregional Theory,” Littauer reading room
    2. Isard, “Some Empirical Results and Problems of Regional Input-Output Analysis,” Littauer reading room
    3. ________, “Interregional and Regional Input-Output Analysis: A Model of a Space-Economy,” Review of Economics and Statistics, November 1951

Suggested reading

    1. W. Leontief, Structure of American Economy 1919-1929
    2. W. Leontief, “Output, Employment, Consumption and Investment,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LVIII, February 1944
    3. W. Leontief, “Exports, Imports, Domestic Output, and Employment,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LX, February 1946
    4. W. Leontief, “Wages, Profit and Prices,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LXI, November 1946
    5. Cornfield, Evans, and Hoffenberg, “Full Employment Patterns 1950,” Monthly Labor Review, February 1947
    6. Cornfield, Evans, and Hoffenberg, “Structure of the American Economy Under Full Employment Conditions,” Monthly Labor Review, March 1947
    7. M. Hoffenberg, “Employment Resulting from U.S. Exports,” Monthly Labor Review, December 1947
    8. W. Leontief et al., “Input-Output Analysis and its Use in Peace and War Economies,” Papers and Proceedings of the American Economic Association, May 1949

 

  1. Empirical Regularities and Distance
    Required reading

    1. John Q. Stewart, “Empirical Mathematical Rules Concerning the Distribution and Equilibrium of Population,” Geographical Review, July 1947
    2. John Q. Stewart, “Demographic Gravitation: Evidence and Applications,” Sociometry, February—May 1948
    3. G.K. Zipf, Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort, Chap. 9

Supplementary reading

    1. G.K. Zipf, National Unity and Disunity
    2. J.Q. Stewart, “Potential of Population and its Relationship to Marketing,” in Theory in Marketing, ed. by R. Cox and W. Alderson
    3. H.W. Singer, “The ‘Courbe des Populations’. A Parallel to Pareto’s Law,” Economic Journal, June 1936
    4. S.A. Stouffer, “Intervening Opportunities: A Theory Relating Mobility and Distance,” American Sociological Review, December 1940
    5. M.L. Bright and D.S. Thomas, “Interstate Migration and Intervening Opportunities,” American Sociological Review, December, 1941
    6. E.C. Isbell, “Internal Migration in Sweden and Intervening Opportunities,” American Sociological Review, December 1944

 

  1. Reading Period Assignment
    1. G.E. McLaughlin and S. Robock, Why Industry Moves South, pp. 1-102

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003, Box 5, Folder “Economics, 1952-1953 (2 of 2).

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Final Examination January, 1953

1952-53
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 235a

Answer questions 1 and 2, and any two others.

  1. Define and briefly discuss the following concepts:

(a) locational weight
(b) rent surface
(c) demographic gravitation
(d) market orientation

  1. Design a regional input-output model. Discuss in full the limitations of such a model for projection purposes.
  2. Present Hoover’s analysis for determining the location of marketing and other intermediary establishments.
  3. Outline and evaluate Brinkmann’s theory of agricultural location.
  4. Discuss some ways in which linear programming (activity analysis) techniques may be useful in regional analysis.

Source: Harvard University Archives. Final Exams—Social Sciences—January 1953 (HUC 7000.28), Vol. 96. Papers Printed for Final Examinations. History, History of Religions, …, Economics, …, Military Sciences, Naval Science. January, 1953.

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Harvard University
Department of Economics
Spring Term 1952-53

Economics 235b—Economics of Location and Regional Development: Problems

  1. Case Studies of Industries
    Required Reading

    1. Isard, “Some Locational Factors in the Iron and Steel Industry Since the Early Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 56, June 1948
    2. Isard and Cumberland, “New England as a Possible Location for an Integrated Iron and Steel Works,” Economic Geography, vol. 26, October 1950
    3. F. Machlup, The Basing-Point System, pp. 3-17, 25-30
    4. T.R. Smith, The Cotton Textile Industry of Fall River, Mass., Chs. II, III, IV.
    5. E.M. Hoover, Location Theory and the Shoe and Leather Industries, Chs. VII, VIII, IX and XVI

Supplementary Reading

    1. E.M. Hoover, Location Theory and the Shoe and Leather Industries, Chs. X-XIV
    2. Isard and Capron, “The Future Locational Pattern of the Iron and Steel Industry in the United States,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 57, March 1949
    3. U.S. Department of Commerce, Transportation Factors in the Location of the Cast Iron Pipe Industry, Economic Series, No. 63 (by J.C. Nelson and R.C. Smith)
    4. L. Dechesne, La Localisation des Diverses Productions
    5. E.W. Zimmerman, World Resources and Industries, Parts II, III
    6. C.S. Goodman, The Location of Fashion Industries, Michigan Business Studies, Vol. X, No. 2
    7. F. Machlup, The Basing-Point System, Chs. 4, 5, 6, 7
    8. T.N.E.C. Monograph No. 42
    9. A.Smithies, “Aspects of the Basing-Point System,” American Economic Review, December 1942
    10. United Nations, Department of Economic Affairs, World Iron Ore Resources and Their Utilization
    11. W.G. Cunningham, The Aircraft Industry: A Study in Industrial Location, Los Angeles, 1951
    12. J.V. Krutilla, The Structure of Costs and Regional Advantage in Primary Aluminum Production, Doctoral Dissertation, 1952, Harvard University Archives.
    13. J.H. Cumberland, The Locational Structure of the East Coast Steel Industry, Doctoral Dissertation, 1951, Harvard University Archives.

 

  1. Trends—Past and Near Future
    a. General Historical Background
    Required Reading

    1. W.H. Dean, The Theory of the Geographic Location of Economic Activities(Selections), Introduction and Ch. III
    2. Isard, “Transport Development and Building Cycles,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 52, November 1942

Supplementary Reading

    1. G. McLaughlin, Growth of American Manufacturing Areas, Part I
    2. A.P. Usher, A Dynamic Analysis of the Location of Economic Activity, Ch. II to end
    3. A. Weber, “Industrielle Standortstheorie,” Grundriss der Sozialökonomik, Abt. VI, pp. 55-82.
    4. H. Ritschl, “Reine und historische Dynamik des Standortes der Erzeugungszweige,” Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 51, 1927, secs. IV and V
    5. E.M. Hoover, The Location of Economic Activity, Chs. 9 and 10
    6. R.G. Hawtrey, The Economic Problem, Chs. IX and X
    7. C. Goodrich, Migration and Economic Opportunity, Chs. VI, VIII
    8. A.P. Usher, “The Steam and Steel Complex and International Relations,” in Technology and International Relations (ed. by W.F. Ogburn)
    9. P.E.P., Report on the Location of Industry in Great Britain, Chs. II and IV
    10. W.H. Dean, The Theory of the Geographic Location of Economic Activities, Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University 1938, Chs. IV-VIII
    11. M.P. Fogarty, Prospects of the Industrial Areas of Great Britain, Ch. II
    12. R. Lester, “Trends in southern Wage Differentials Since 1890,” Southern Economic Journal, April 1945
    13. G. Ellis, “Why New Manufacturing Establishments Located in New England,” Monthly Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Volume 31, April 1949

 

  1. Industrial Concentration and Dispersion
    Required Reading

    1. S.P. Florence, Investment, Location and Size of Plant, Chs. III, IV, VI
    2. Shenfield and Florence, “The Economies and Diseconomies of Industrial Concentration: The Wartime Experience of Coventry,” Review of Economic Studies, Vol. XII, No. 32, 1944-45
    3. C. Goodrich, Migration and Economic Opportunity, pp. 314-92

Supplementary Reading

    1. S.P. Florence, Investment, Location and Size of Plant, Chs. I, II, V
    2. National Industrial Conference Board, Decentralization in Industry, Studies in Business Policy, No. 30
    3. J. Steindl, Small and Big Business, Oxford Institute of Statistics, Monograph No. 1
    4. D. Creamer, Is Industry Decentralizing
    5. National Resources Planning Board, Industrial Location and National Resources, Chaps. 4 and 5
    6. A.J. Wright, “Recent Changes in Concentration of Manufacturing,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 35, December 1945
    7. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Location of Manufactures, 1889-1929: A Study of the Tendencies Toward Concentration and Toward Dispersion.
    8. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Business Information Service, Concentration of Industry Report, December 1949
    9. Survey of Current Business, December 1949, “State Estimates of the Business Population.”

 

  1. Urban-Metropolitan Development Processes
    Required Reading

    1. A.E. Hawley, Human Ecology, pp. 80-91, 234-87, 348-432
    2. D.E. Bogue, The Structure of the Metropolitan Community, Part I
    3. R.E. Dickinson, City Region and Regionalism (Page through and observe figures carefully. Read text only when necessary to understand the implications of these figures).

Supplementary Reading

    1. W. Christaller, Die zentralen Orte in Süddeutschland
    2. E. Ullman “A Theory of Location for Cities” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 46, May 1941, pp. 853-64
    3. U.S. Federal Housing Administration, The Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities
    4. Isard and Whitney, “Metropolitan Site Selection,”Social Forces, Vol. 27, March 1949
    5. P.E.P., Report on the Location of Industry in Great Britain, Chap. VI
    6. R.D. McKenzie, The Metropolitan Community, Parts II, III,, IV
    7. N.S.B. Gras, “The Rise of the Metropolitan Community” in the Urban Community (ed. by E.W. Burgess)
    8. R. Park et al., The City, Chaps. I, II, III
    9. E. de S. Brunner and J.H. Kolb, Rural Social Trends, Chaps. IV, V, VI
    10. R.E. Dickinson, “The Scope and Status of Urban Geography: An Assessment,” Land Economics, Vol. XXIV, August 1948, pp. 221-38
    11. Griffith Taylor, Urban Geography
    12. D.E. Bogue, The Structure of the Metropolitan Community, Parts II and III
    13. P.K. Hatt and A.J. Reiss, Reader in Urban Sociology, Parts 1-4

 

  1. Regional Industrialization Processes
    Required Reading

    1. Pei-kang Chang, Agriculture and Industrialization, pp. 23-36, 46-55, 66-112
    2. A.W. Lewis, “The Industrialization of the British West Indies,” Caribbean Economic Review, Vol. II, No. 1, May 1950
    3. A.P. Usher, A Dynamic Analysis of the Location of Economic Activity, Sections 7, 8, and 9

Supplementary Reading

    1. Pei-kang Chang, Agriculture and Industrialization, Chaps. IV, V, VI
    2. K. Mandelbaum, The Industrialization of Backward Areas
    3. Colin Clark, The Conditions of Economic Progress, Chaps. V-XV
    4. Colin Clark, The Economics of 1960
    5. League of Nations, Industrialization and Foreign Trade, Chaps. III and IV
    6. A.J. Brown, Industrialization and Trade
    7. S.R. Dennison, The Location of Industry and Depressed Areas, Part II
    8. G. McLaughlin, Growth of American Manufacturing Areas, Part II
    9. D.M. Phelps, Migration of Industry to South America
    10. P.E.P, Report on the Location of Industry in Great Britain, Chaps. I, V, VIII, IX, X
    11. B. Barfod, Local Economic Effects of a Large-Scale Industrial Undertaking
    12. Harold H. Hutcheson, “Problems of the Underdeveloped Countries,” (Parts I and II), Foreign Policy Reports, September 15 and October 1, 1948, Vol. XXIV, Nos. 9 and 10
    13. L.H. Bean, “International Industrialization and Per Capita Income,” Studies in Income and Wealth (National Bureau of Economic Research 1946), Vol. 8, pp. 119-44
    14. Ernst Pelzer, “Industrialization of Young Countries and the Change in the International Division of Labor,” Social Research, September 1940, pp. 299-325
    15. N.S. Buchanan, “Deliberate Industrialization for Higher Incomes,” Economic Journal Volume 56, December 1946
    16. E. Staley, World Economic Development (I.L.O.)
    17. Great Britain Ministry of Works and Planning, Report of the Committee on Land Utilisation in Rural Areas (Scott Report), Parts I, II
    18. Great Britain, Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population, Report (Barlow Report)
    19. T.R. Sharma, Location of Industries in India (2nd Edition), Chaps. XI-XV
    20. H. Perloff, Puerto Rico’s Economic Future
    21. W.A. Lewis, “Industrial Development in Puerto Rico,” Caribbean Economic Review, Vol. I, No. 1, December 1949
    22. S.S. Balzak et al., Economic Geography of the U.S.S.R.
    23. E.M. Hoover & J.L. Fisher, “Research in Regional Economic Growth,” in Problems in the Study of Economic Growth, National Bureau of Economic Research
    24. P. Neff et al., Production Cost Trends in Selected Industrial Areas
    25. R. Vining, articles on regional cyclical behavior, Econometrica, July 1945, January 1946, and July 1946; and Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Review, May 1949
    26. Interstate Commerce Commission, Dockets Nos. 29885 and 29886, pp. 55-165, Testimony of R. Vining
    27. Survey Research Center, Industrial Mobility in Michigan
    28. Hildebrand and Mace, “The Employment Multiplier in an Expanding Industrial Market: Los Angeles County, 1940-47,” Review of Economics and Statistics, August, 1950
    29. C. Clark, “The Distribution of Labour Between Industries and Between Locations,” Land Economics, May 1950

 

  1. Regional Implications of Aircraft and Atomic Power
    Required Reading and Reading Period Assignment

    1. Isard and Whitney, Atomic Power: An Economic and Social Analysis, entire book
    2. C. and W. Isard, “Some Economic Implications of Aircraft,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 59, February 1945

Supplementary Reading

    1. National Resources Planning Board, Technological Trends and National Policy, Parts I, II
    2. W. F. Ogburn, “The Process of Adjustment to New Inventions,” in Technology and International Relations (ed. by W.F. Ogburn)
    3. H. Hart, “Technology and Growth of Political Areas,” in Technology and International Relations(ed. by W.F. Ogburn)
    4. A. J. Brown, Applied Economics, Chapter VII
    5. Isard and Lansing, “Comparisons of Power Cost for Atomic and Conventional Steam Stations,” Review of Economic Statistics, Vol. XXXI, August 1949
    6. Isard, “Some Economic Implications of Atomic Energy,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LXII, February 1948
    7. W.F. Ogburn, Social Effects of Aviation, Parts I, II, III
    8. National Resources Planning Board, Transportation and National Policy, Part II, Section I, “Air Transport.”
    9. S. Schurr and J. Marschak, Economic Aspects of Atomic Power
    10. Isard and Whitney, “Atomic Power and Regional Development,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Vol. VIII, April 1952

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003, Box 5, Folder “Economics, 1952-1953 (2 of 2).

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Final Examination May, 1953

1952-53
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS 235b

Answer question 1 and three others.

  1. Define and discuss briefly the following concepts:

(a) location quotient
(b) freight absorption
(c) income potential

  1. Evaluate the economic feasibility of a plan based on the concepts of “small man, small plant, and small town with diversified industry.”
  2. Discuss the thesis that the concept of a nodal or metropolitan region is increasing in significance for regional analysis.
  3. What are the various forces determining the location pattern of the iron and steel industry? How do they interact under several different sets of circumstances? Illustrate with diagrams.
  4. “If private enterprise is to engage in the production of both fissionable material and power for commercial use, the location in New England of a nuclear energy installation operated by private enterprise would tend to minimize the subsidy required of the federal government.” Evaluate this statement.

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Final Exams—Social Sciences—June 1953 (HUC 7000.28), Vol. 99. Papers Printed for Final Examinations. History, History of Religions, …, Economics, …, Air Sciences, Naval Science. June, 1953.

Image Source:  Walter Isard, ca. 1960. From David Boyce presentation: Leon Moses and Walter Isard: Collaborators, Rivals or Antagonists.