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The first boxes of archival material that I examined as my research project on the evolution of graduate economics training was beginning to take shape came from Don Patinkin’s papers back when Duke’s Economists’ Papers Archive still bore the modest descriptor of “Economists’ Papers Project”.

This post transcribes some of the research material collected by Patinkin in his survey of Chicago style monetary economics. Fun Fact: his research assistant while on leave at M.I.T. was the graduate student Stanley Fischer, from whom incidentally I was to take my first graduate macroeconomics course (Patinkin’s book was on the reading list, surprise, surprise).

Doctoral theses advisers were identified for a dozen and a half Chicago theses that drew Don Patinkin’s attention. This is the sort of information that doesn’t normally jump at you in digitised form through a duly diligent internet search, so I thought it worth my time to file this information for now in a blog post. Minor additions have been added in square brackets for the sake of completeness.

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List of Patinkin’s copy request for Chicago Ph.D. theses

Author	Article	Details of parts photographed	Box No.
1. Bach, George [Leland]	Price Level Stabilization: [Some Theoretical and Practical Considerations]	[blank]	[blank]
2. Bloomfield, Arthur [Irving]	International Capital Movement and the American Balance of Payments 1929-1940	Title, Contents, Bibliography. pp. 513-514, 578-579.	T-304
3. Bronfenbrenner, Martin	Monetary Theory and General Equilibrium	Title, Preface, Bibliography. Chaps. 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.	T-10250
4. Brooks, Benjamin [Franklin]	A History of Monetary Theory in the United States Before 1860	Contents, Preface, Bibliography. Chap. 11.	T-9885
5. Caplan, Benjamin	The Wicksellian School—A Critical Study of the Development of Swedish Monetary Theory, 1898-1932	Title, Contents, Preface, Bibliography.	T-7847
6. Cox, Garfield V.	Business Forecasting in the United States 1919-1928	Title, Contents, Preface, Bibliography.	T-17-91
7. Daugherty Marion [Roberts]	The Currency-Banking Controversy	Title, Contents, Bibliography pp. 41, 54, 130, 133, 246, 316.	T-10282
8. Harper, [William Canaday] Joel	Scrip and Other Forms of Local Money	Title, Contents, Bibliography.	T-145
9. Leigh, Arthur Hertel	Studies in the Theory of Capital and Interest Before 1870	Title, Contents, Bibliography.	T-554
10. Linville, Francis [Aron]	Central Bank Co-operation	Title, Contents, Bibliography.	T-11508
11. McEvoy, Raymond H.	The Effects of Federal Reserve Operations 1929-1936	Title, Contents, Preface Bibliography.	T-7731
12. McIvor R. Craig	Monetary Expansion in Canadian War Finance, 1939-1946	Title, Contents, Bibliography.	T-10268
13. McKean, Roland Neely	Fluctuations in Our Private Claim-Debt Structure and Monetary Policy	Title, Contents, Bibliography. Chaps. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	T-90
14. Reeve, Joseph [Edwin]	Monetary Proposals for Curing the Depression in the United States 1929-1935	[blank]	T-11022
15. Shaw, Ernest Ray	The Investment and Secondary Reserve Policy of Commercial Banks	Title, Contents, Preface, Bibliography.	T-8322
16. Snider, Delbert [Arthur]	Monetary, Exchange, and Trade Problems in Postwar Greece	Title, Contents, Bibliography.	T-1031
17. Tongue, William [Walter]	Money, Capital, and the Business Cycle	Title, Contents, Preface, Bibliography.	T-670

Source: Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Economists’ Papers Archive. Don Patinkin Papers, University of Chicago School of Economics Raw Materials, Box 2, Folder “Chicago, general (?). from binder: “U. Chicago Ph.D. Theses”, folder 1 of 2”.

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The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Department of Economics

August 21, 1968

Professor Don E. Patinkin
Economics Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dear Professor Patinkin:

            I am listing below the information (Committee members) you requested in your letter of July 8, 1968. I am also hoping that you have received your microfilm by now. The Photoduplication department was to have mailed them to you on August 13.

Bach, George [Leland]	1940	S. E. Leland C. W. Wright H. C. Simon
Bloomfield, Arthur [Irving]	1942	J. Viner Lloyd W. Mints O. Lange
Bronfenbrenner, Martin	1939	Frank Knight, chr. S. E. Leland
Brooks, Benjamin [Franklin]	1939	Frank Knight, chr. Lloyd Mints [Viner also thanked in thesis preface]
Caplan, Benjamin	1942	J. Viner O. Lange	L. W. Mints H. C. Simons
Cox, Garfield [V.]	1929	Lionel D. Edie, chr. Jacob Viner Chester W. Wright
Daugherty, Marion [Roberts] (Mrs.)	1941	Jacob Viner, chr. Garfield Cox Lloyd Mints
Harper, Joel [William Canady]	1949 [Summer 1948]	F. Knight O. Lange H. Simons	C. W. Wright L. Mints S. Leland
Leigh, Arthur [Hertel]	1946	Frank Knight, chr. Jacob Viner Oskar Lange
McEvoy, Raymond [H.]	1950	Lloyd W. Mints, chr. Earl J. Hamilton Lloyd A. Metzler
McIvor, Russel [Craig]	1947	Roy Blough, chr. J. K. Langum L.W. Mints [in thesis acknowledgement Mints as the doctoral committee chair]
McKean, Roland [Neely]	1948	Lloyd W. Mints, chr. Lloyd A. Metzler Earl J. Hamilton A. Director
Reeve, Joseph [Edwin]	1939	Lloyd W. Mints, chr. Garfield V. Cox Jacob Viner
Shaw, Ernest [Ray]	1930	Lionel D. Edie, chr. Lloyd W. Mints Stuart P. Meech (Bus. School)
Snider, Delbert [Arthur]	1951	L. Metzler, chr. R. Blough Bert Hoselitz
Tongue, William [Walter]	1947	L. W. Mints, chr. Frank H. Knight H. Gregg Lewis

            As you can see in some instances the Chairman was not listed, but the examining committee was listed. I wrote to Professor Cox, 660 W. Bonita, Apt. 24 E, Claremont, California 91711, to get the committee members for him and for Professor E. Shaw. Professor Cox also gave me the address of Professor Lloyd W. Mints, 618 E. Myrtle St., Ft. Collins, Colorado, should you have any interest. I hope this is sufficient.

Yours truly,
[signed]
(Mrs.) Hazel Bowdry
Sec. to Professor Telser

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The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois 60637

Department of Economics

October 23, 1968

Professor Don Patinkin
Department of Economics
The Eliezer Kaplan School of
Economics and Social Sciences
The Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel

Dear Professor Patinkin:

            In answer to your letter of October 4, I have rechecked the files and find the below listed information.

George Bach’s committee members:

L. W. Mints, chr.
S. E. Leland
C. W. Wright
Oskar Lange
F. H. Knight
H. C. Simons
Jacob Viner
Jacob Left
Maynard Krueger

This is the order in which the examining committee is listed.

Martin Bronfenbrenner:

Henry Schultz chr.
J. Viner
L. W. Mints
F. Knight
A. G. Hart
H. C. Simon

Joel Harper:

S. E. Leland, Chr.
H. Simons
L. W. Mints
Mr. Chatters

Benjamin Brooks:

L. Mints, chr.
J. Viner
F. Knight

            I checked Faculty records with Mrs. Mosby, and found a re-appointment for Henry Simons dated June 3, 1930.

            I hope this information is helpful, and I am sorry I cannot give more definite committee members in the case of Bach.

Sincerely yours,
[signed]
(Mrs.) Hayzel Bowdry

P.S. I hope you have received the microfilm by now. It was mailed via airmail yesterday.

Source: Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Economists’ Papers Archive. Don Patinkin Papers, University of Chicago School of Economics Raw Materials, Box 2, Folder “Chicago, general (?), Simons, Mints, Knight materials”.

Image Source: Don Patinkin article at Gonçalo L. Fonseca’s History of Economic Thought website. Colorized at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror.