An earlier posting provides lists of presenters for the Economic Seminary for the years 1891-1908. This posting provides the lists of announced presenters for the final three years of the seminary.
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Seminary Meetings in 1929-30
Professor Bullock
Sept. 30 Harvard Union
Oct. 14 S.E. Harris, “Monetary Policy of the British Dominions since 1914.”
Oct. 28 W. E. Beach, “Bank Policy and Gold Movements in England from 1880 to 1914.”
Nov. 4 J. P. Wernette, “Fiscal Reorganization in the United States of Colombia.”
Nov. 25 F. W. Taussig, “German Economic Periodicals and Works of Reference.”
Dec. 9 H. D. White, “International Balance of Payments of France.”
Feb. 3 W. Z. Ripley, “Railroad Consolidation.”
Feb. 17 C. S. Joslyn, “A Proposed Statistical Measurement of Vertical Occupational Mobility.”
March 8 T. J. Kreps, “The Chemical Phase of the Industrial Revolution.”
March 31 D. V. Brown, “Family Allowances.”
April 28 J. H. Williams, “Reparations and the International Flow of Capital.”
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Seminary Meetings in 1930-31
Professor Gay
Sept. 29 Harvard Union
Oct. 15 University Film Foundation, “The Availability of Motion Pictures for Instruction in Economic History and Economic Resources”.
Oct. 29 O. H. Taylor, “The Present Position and Prospects of Economic Theory”.
Nov. 5 Professors Bullock, Ripley, and Black, “Graduate Study and Research in Economics”.
Nov. 19 H. D. White, “The American Rayon Industry, a Product of Protection”.
Dec. 3 Professor Schumpeter, “Financial Policy of Germany since 1919″.
Dec. 17 Professor W. E. Eckblaw, Professor of Economic Geography, Clark University, “Russia To-day”.
Jan. 7 A. E. Monroe, “Land as a Consumers’ Good”.
Jan. 21 (Reading period)
Feb. 4 (Exam. period)
Feb. 18 D. H. Wallace, “The Aluminum Monopoly in the U.S.”
March 4 W. C. Mitchell, “Cyclical Behavior of Factors in Business”.
March 11 L. B. Currie, “The Commercial Loan Theory of Banking”.
March 25 Dr. B. M. Squires, “The Administration of Public Employment Offices”.
April 1 Dr. J. J. de Stoop, “The Merger Movement in Belgium”.
April 8 Dr. Mabel C. Buer, Lecturer in Economics at the University of Reading, England, “The Relation between Industrial Development and Vital Statistics in England”.
April 22 Major Lyndall Urwick, Director of the International Management Institute at Geneva, “The International Organization of Economic Study”.
April 29 Professor T. S. Adams, Yale University, “The Treatment of Capital Gains and Losses under the Federal Income Tax”.
May 6 Professor J. D. Black, “Interregional Competition in Production”.
May 20 (Reading period)
Source: Harvard University Archives. Department of Economics, Correspondence & Papers 1902-1950 (UAV 349.10), Box 25. Folder “Economics Seminary 1925-33”.
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Seminary Meetings in 1931-32
Professor Carver
Second and fourth Monday of month
Oct. 5 Members of teaching staff
Oct. 19 Dr. E. Dana Durand, United States Tariff Commission, “The Business Depression”.
Oct. 26 Mr. J. P. Wernette, “Politics and Finance in Peru”.
Nov. 9 Mr. J. B. Crane, “Aviation”.
Nov. 23 Professor W. Z. Ripley, “National Economic Planning.”
Dec. 14 Dr. J. F. Normano, “South America Today: An Attempt at an Economic ‘Characteristique’.
Jan. 11 Dr. L. B. Currie, “The Nature of Credit”.
Feb. 8 Dr. B. C. Hunt, “The English Joint Stock Company 1800-1862”.
Feb. 15 Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, Assistant Chief Economist of the Federal Farm Board, “Stability vs. Flexibility as Means to Economic Adjustment”.
Feb. 29 Dr. C. J. Ratzlaff, “The Theory and Practice of the International Labor Organization of the League of Nations”
Mar 14 Dr. Leontief, “Postive and Normative Approaches in Economic Theory”
Mar 28 Mr. K. L. Anderson, “Thornstein Veblen’s Economics”.
Apr. 11 Mr. Ejnar Jensen, “International Monetary and Technological Influences on European Agricultural Development since 1870”.
Apr. 18 Dr. Wilhelm Kromphardt, A. O. Professor of Economics, University of Münster, “The Relation of Economic Evolution to Economic Theory and Its Application”.
Apr. 25 Mr. N. R. Danielian, “Recent Developments in the Electric Light and Power Industry in the U.S.”
May 9 Professor Charles S. Collier, Professor of Law in George Washington University, “Public Utility Valuation.”
Source: Harvard University Archives. Department of Economics, Correspondence & Papers 1902-1950 (UAV 349.10), Box 25. Folder “Economics Seminary 1925-33”.