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Harvard. Exam Questions for Young’s Grad Course on Modern Economic Theories, 1921-27

 

While at Harvard between 1920/21 and 1926/27, Allyn Young taught a course to graduate students (Economics 15, Modern Schools of Economic Thought) that was intended to take students on a survey of economics from the mid-19th century up to the beginning of the 20th century. His colleague, Charles Bullock brought graduate students up to Adam Smith/Ricardo in Economics 14. Young, sometimes in a year-long course, but more often in a semester course, covered the subsequent schools of economic thought.

It is interesting to note that Young had no reservations about including German and French quotations in his graduate examinations. 

From Roger Sandilands (“New Evidence on Allyn Young’s Style and Influence as a Teacher” in the volume edited by Robert Leeson,  American Power and Policy, published in 2009 in the Springer Series  Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics), we have a wonderful collection of archival testimony to Young’s impact in the training of young economists. The examination questions to follow can help us reconstruct what it was he covered in his survey course on economic theories.

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ACADEMIC YEAR 1920-21

From the Course Announcements

[Economics] 15. Modern Schools of Economic Thought

Mon., Wed., at 3.30, and a third hour at the pleasure of the instructor. Professor Young.

Source: Official Register of Harvard University, Vol. XVII, No. 51 (December 20, 1920). Announcement of the Courses of Instruction offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1920-21 (3rd edition), p. 101.

 

Course Enrollment

Primarily for Graduates:–

[Economics] 15. Professor Young.—Modern Schools of Economic Thought.

7 Graduates, 1 Other:   Total 8.

Source: Harvard University. Reports of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard College 1920-1921, p. 96.

[Final Examination, 1921]
ECONOMICS 15

  1. Classify the writers whose names follow, using two or three groups, and explain your classification: Cournot, Edgeworth, Jevons, Marshall, Pareto, Walras.
  2. What differences, if any, is there between Pareto’s theory of choice, and the type of theory which leads to the concept of marginal utility?
  3. What is there in Fichte’s views that may have influenced (a) the German historical economists? (b) the socialists?
  4. Distinguish and briefly characterize three different types of “solidarism.”
  5. In what ways, if at all, has Comte’s positivism influenced the development of economic science?
  6. In the reading assigned in Merz what seemed to you most significant, and why?
  7. Give a short summary and critical estimate of the economic philosophy of G. Sorel.
  8. What meaning or meanings do you attribute to the following phrases, and why?
    “The economic interpretation of history.” “An economic interpretation of history.” “Economic determinism.”

Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University Examination: Papers Set for Final Examinations in History, Church History,…,Economics,…Fine Arts, Music in Harvard College, June 1921. Pages 70-71.(HUC 7000.28, 63 of 284).

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ACADEMIC YEAR 1921-22

From the Course Announcements

151 hf. Modern Schools of Economic Thought

Half-course (first half-year). Mon., Wed., at 3.30, and a third hour at the pleasure of the instructor. Professor Young.

Source: Announcement of the Courses of Instruction offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the Academic Year 1921-22 (3rd edition), p. 110.

Note: Enrollment figures for courses were not provided in the annual Reports of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard College, 1921-1922.

 

[Final Examination, 1922]
ECONOMICS 151

  1. What is the substance of Mill’s reasoning with respect to the use of the “chemical, or experimental method” in the social sciences? The “geometrical, or abstract method”? The “physical, or concrete deductive method”?
  2. What do you conclude with respect to the following findings of Veblen, — and why?
    “The economists of the classical trend have made no serious attempt to depart from the standpoint of taxonomy and make their science a genetic account of the economic life process. As has just been said, much the same is true for the Historical School. The latter have attempted an account of developmental sequence, but they have followed the lines of pre-Darwinian speculations on development rather than lines which modern science would recognize as evolutionary. They have given a narrative survey of phenomena, not a genetic account of an unfolding process. In this work they have, no doubt, achieved results of permanent value; but the results achieved are scarcely to be classed as economic theory.”
  3. Explain the following paragraph from List by giving it background or context. What die List mean by “philosophy”? By “history”?
    “Die politische Oekonomie muss in Beziehung auf den internationalen Handel ihre Lehren aus der Erfahrung schöpfen, ihre Massregeln für die Bedürfnisse der Gegenwart und die eigentümlichen Zustände jeder besonderen Nation berechnen, ohne dabei die Forderungen der Zukunft und der gesamten Menschheit zu verkennen. Sie stützt sich demnach auf Philosophie, Politik und Geschichte.”
    [“Political economy, in matters of international commerce, must draw its lessons from experience; the measures it advises must be appropriate to the wants of our times, to the special condition of each people; it must no, However, disavow the exigencies of the future nor the higher interests of the whole human race. political economy must rest consequently upon Philosophy, Policy, and History.”]
  4. What distinction, if any, do you make between the historical and the genetic methods? What do you take to be the meaning of “historical laws”? Is there any way in which historical knowledge might have importance for economics even if such knowledge should not be reducible to terms of law?
  5. How many and what sort of premises do you deem adequate for the purposes of a theory of value and distribution?
  6. Give, in general terms, an estimate of the nature and extent of the influence of utilitarianism upon economics.
  7. Explain, without unnecessary detail, Pareto’s use of indifference curves and of indices of choice. Is this a successful escape from hedonism?
  8. Give, as concisely as possible, Schmoller’s conclusion with respect to the methods of economic science, as indicated by his Handwörterbuch

Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University Examination: Papers Set for Final Examinations in History, Church History,…,Economics,…, Social Ethics, Education in Harvard College, June 1922. (HUC 7000.28, 64 of 284)

Note: translation of the List quote in question 3 from Friderich List, National System of Political Economy (G. A. Matile, translation), Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1856. page 63.

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ACADEMIC YEAR 1922-23

From the Course Announcements

15 hf. Modern Schools of Economic Thought

Mon., Wed., at 3.30, and a third hour at the pleasure of the instructor. Professor Young.

Source: Official Register of Harvard University, Vol. XIX, No. 45 (September 18, 1922). Announcement of the Courses of Instruction offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1922-23 (2nd edition), p. 110.

 

Course Enrollment

Primarily for Graduates:–

[Economics] 15. Professor Young.—Modern Schools of Economic Thought.

13 Graduates, 1 Senior:   Total 14.

Source: Harvard University. Reports of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard College 1922-1923, p. 92.

 

[Final Examination, 1923]
ECONOMICS 15

PART I

  1. Comment on the following excerpts from the Communist Manifesto:
    “The feudal system of industry now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets…Modern industry has established the world market for which the discovery of America paved the way….The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production….The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe.”
  2. Discuss the influence of Fichte and Hegel upon the development of economic thought in Germany.
  3. In what measure is it true that modern economic thought rests upon hedonistic psychology? What differences in this respect are there as among different schools or different writers?

 

PART II

Name and classify the different important schools of economic thought (after Adam Smith). What are the distinguishing characteristics of each? Name and comment upon one of the principal adherents of each.

(To occupy about two-thirds of your time.)

Final. 1923.

Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University Examination: Papers Set for Final Examinations in History, History of Religions,…,Economics,…, Social Ethics, Anthropology June 1923. (HUC 7000.28, 65 of 284)

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ACADEMIC YEAR 1923-24

From the Course Announcements

151 hf. Modern Schools of Economic Thought

Half-course (first half-year). Tu., Th., at 10, and a third hour at the pleasure of the instructor. Professor Young.

Source: Official Register of Harvard University, Vol. XX, No. 44 (September 17, 1923). Announcement of the Courses of Instruction offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the Academic Year 1923-24 (2nd edition), p. 108.

 

Course Enrollment

Primarily for Graduates:–

151 hf. Professor Young.—Modern Schools of Economic Thought.

11 Graduates, 1 Radcliffe:   Total 12.

Source: Harvard University. Reports of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard College 1923-1924, p. 107.

 

 

[Final Examination, 1924]
ECONOMICS 151

  1. “Es ist theoretisch und praktisch in der Volkswirtschaftslehre von entscheidender Bedeutung, ob man der individualistischen oder universalistischen Auffassung der Gesellschaft huldige.”—Spann.
    [From Othmar Spann’s Die Haupttheorien der Volkswirtschaftslehre auf lehrgeschichtlicher Grunlage (7th edition, 1920, p. 31.) “It is of crucial theoretical and practical importance for economics whether one pays homage to an individualistic or universalistic conception of Society.”]
    Explain and illustrate.
  2. Give a brief characterization of economic romanticism.
  3. What in your opinion, are the outstanding features of the doctrines of (a) Roscher, (b) Knies, and (c) Schmoller, respecting the scope and method of economics?
  4. Discuss Mill’s conclusion that “History does, when judiciously examined, afford empirical laws of society.” Do you agree?
  5. What common element are found in the writings of Bastiat and Carey?
  6. What is “psychological hedonism”? Do you find it in Smith? Mill? The Austrians?
  7. Give a short estimate of the significance of either Sismondi or Rodbertus.
  8. “Si la théorie de la solidarité de M. Bourgeois a un caractère politico-juridique, celle de M. Durkheim se place dans la sphere toute différente de la sociologie et de la morale.”—Gide.
    [“While M. Bourgeois’ theory of solidarity possesses a political-juridical character that of M. Durkheim is located within the completely different realm of sociology and morality.” From Book 5, Chapter 3 “Les Solidaristes” written by Charles Gide in Charles Gide and Charles Rist, Histoire des Doctrines Économiques, 2nd 1913, pp. 700-701.]
    What are the two theories?

Final. 1924.

Source: Harvard University Archives. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Papers Printed for Final Examinations. History, History of Religions,…,Economics,…, Psychology, Social Ethics June 1924. (HUC 7000.28, 66 of 284)

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ACADEMIC YEAR 1924-25

From the Division’s Course Description

151 hf. Modern Schools of Economic Thought

Half-course (first half-year). Tu., Th., at 10, and a third hour at the pleasure of the instructor. Professor Young.

In this course less attention will be given to specific economic doctrines than to questions of the scope, methods, premises, and goal of economic science, and of its relations to logic and psychology and to the other social sciences. Selections from the writings of the historical economists, the mathematical economists, the socialists, and other critics of the English classical school will be discussed. Special attention will be given to German and French writers, and readings in German and French will be required. Students with especial interests in this field may arrange to continue the course in the second half-year as a research course.

Source: Official Register of Harvard University, Vol. XXI, No. 22 (April 30, 1924). Division of History, Government, and Economics 1924-25, pp. 71-2.

 

Course Enrollment

Primarily for Graduates:–

151 hf. Professor Young.—Modern Schools of Economic Thought.

18 Graduates, 1 Senior, 5 Radcliffe:   Total 24.

Source: Harvard University. Reports of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard College 1924-1925, p. 75.

 

 

[Final Examination, 1925]
ECONOMICS 151

  1. What do you make of Spann’s distinction between individualism and universalism? Why does Spann attach so much importance to it?
  2. What economic writers would you set down as romanticists, and on what grounds?
  3. Knies is generally counted a member of the historical school. Should you so classify him? Give your reasons.
  4. Why are Bastiat and Carey termed optimists?
  5. Did the reading of J. S. Mill’s autobiography increase or decrease the importance you attached to “Benthamism” as an element in his economics? Explain.
  6. What did Mill hold respecting “historical laws”? What was Roscher’s view? Rickert’s?
  7. What were the chief elements in List’s criticism of Smith and his followers?
  8. Veblen says of Schmoller: “His striking and characteristic merits lie in the direction of a post-Darwinian, causal theory of the origin and growth of species in institutions.” Do you agree?

Final. 1925.

Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Papers Printed for Final Examinations. History of Science, History,…,Economics,…, Anthropology, Military Science, June 1925. (HUC 7000.28, 67 of 284)

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ACADEMIC YEAR 1925-26

From the Course Announcements

151 hf. Modern Schools of Economic Thought

Half-course (first half-year). Mon., Wed., Fri. at 4. Professor Young.

Source: Official Register of Harvard University, Vol. XXII, No. 41 (September 21, 1925). Announcement of the Courses of Instruction offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1925-26 (2nd edition), p. 111.

 

 

Course Enrollment

Primarily for Graduates:–

151 hf. Professor Young.—Modern Schools of Economic Thought.

12 Graduates, 1 Senior, 2 Radcliffe:   Total 15.

Source: Harvard University. Reports of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard College 1925-1926, p. 78.

 

[Final Examination, 1925]
ECONOMICS 151

Discuss two questions in each group.

I

  1. “The economists of the classical trend have made no serious attempt to depart from the standpoint of taxonomy and make their science a genetic account of the economic life process.” — Veblen
  2. “The reason for the Austrian failure seems to lie in a faulty conception of human nature….In all the received formulations of economic theory, whether at the hands of English economists or those of the Continent, the human material with which the inquiry is concerned is conceived in hedonistic terms.”—Veblen.
  3. “Pour Smith la spontanéité des institutions économiques et leur caractère bienfaisant sont dans un rapport étroit. Volontiers, au xviiie siècle, on considère comme bon tout ce qui est naturel et spontané….Smith n’a pas échappé à cette association d’idées. En montrant l’origine ‘naturelle’ des institutions économiques, il lui semblait prouver par là meme leur caractère utile et bienfaisant.” —
    [“Smith saw the spontaneity of economic institutions and their beneficial character to be intimately related. In the 18th century one readily considered everything that was natural and spontaneous to be good…Smith did not escape this association of ideas. By demonstrating the ‘natural’ origin of economic institutions, he thought he had thus proved their useful and beneficial character.” From Book 1, Chapter 2 “Adam Smith” written by Charles Rist in Charles Gide and Charles Rist, Histoire des Doctrines Économiques, 2nd ed. 1913, p. 81.]

II

  1. In Roscher’s “Grundriss” of 1843 there are the following notes on the “historical method”: What is uniform in the development of the different peoples put in the form of a law of developent? Work of the historian and of the student of natural history similar. This historical method has, in any case, if it does not altogether go astray, objective truth.” What would Knies say to this?
  2. Summarize J. S. Mill’s views respecting the use of the deductive and inductive methods in the social sciences.
  3. Give either Spann’s view of economic romanticism or your own.

III

  1. What do you take to be the chief significance of either Sismondi or St. Simon?
  2. What are the distinguishing tents of the two types of neo-Marxism distinguished in Gide’s chapter?
  3. Compare marginal utility, final degree of utility, Edgeworth’s view of utility as a function of many variables, and Pareto’s function-index of choice.

Final. 1926.

Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Papers Printed for Final Examinations. History, History of Religions,…,Economics,…, Social Ethics, Military Science, June 1926. (HUC 7000.28, 68 of 284)

 

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ACADEMIC YEAR 1926-27

From the Course Announcements

151 hf. Modern Schools of Economic Thought

Half-course (first half-year). Mon., Wed., Fri. at 4. Professor Young.

Source: Harvard University, Announcement of the Courses of Instruction offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1926-27 (2nd edition), p. 116.

 

Course Enrollment

Primarily for Graduates:–

151 hf. Professor Young.—Modern Schools of Economic Thought.

17 Graduates, 5 Radcliffe:   Total 22.

Source: Harvard University. Reports of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard College 1926-1927, p. 75.

 

[Final Examination, 1927]
ECONOMICS 151

Use the three hours allotted for this examination in writing an essay upon one of the following topics.

  1. Utilitarianism and psychological hedonism, with special reference to their relation to economic theory.
  2. The historical school and institutional economics.
  3. French economic thought in the nineteenth century.
  4. The use of mathematics in economic theory.

Final. 1927.

Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Papers Printed for Final Examinations. History, History of Religions,…,Economics,…, Social Ethics, Military Science, June 1927. (HUC 7000.28, 69 of 284)

 

 

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Chicago Economists

Chicago. Visiting Economics Professors, 1896-1943.

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On April 10, 1945, the chairman of the University of Chicago’s economics department, Professor Simeon E. Leland, submitted a 77 page (!) memorandum to President Robert M. Hutchins entitled “Postwar Plans of the Department of Economics–A Wide Variety of Observations and Suggestions All Intended To Be Helpful in Improving the State of the University”.

In his cover letter Leland wrote “…in the preparation of the memorandum, I learned much that was new about the past history of the Department. Some of this, incorporated in the memorandum, looks like filler stuck in, but I thought it ought to be included for historical reasons and to furnish some background for a few of the suggestions.” 

The memorandum deserves reproduction in its entirety sometime (and will probably be done by somebody else), but I intend to serve at least several blogpost-sized portions from Leland’s memo. So look forward for more tables/excerpts to come.

Today we have (1) a list compiled by Leland of visiting professors to the department of economics who had not been absorbed into the faculty as of 1945 (e.g. George Stigler was still at Minnesota at the time of the memo was written. Later posts include (2) data on economics faculty 1944/45 and the trend of enrolments and (3) talent-scouting lists for possible permanent, visiting and joint appointments.

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List of visiting professors
(excluding faculty members who frequently were visitors before joining the University)

[An asterisk (*) for deceased colleagues]

Visiting Professor

 Year Institution

Present Location
G. W. S. Adams

1902
Henry C. Adams*

1902

 Michigan
Clarence E. Ayers

1923

 Amherst

Texas
Stephan Bauer

1899

 Chamber of Commerce, Brünn, Austria
Spurgeon Bell

1920

 Texas

National Resources Planning Board
E. L. Bogart

1910

 Princeton

Illinois (Emeritus)
Arthur J. Boynton*

1914

 Kansas
Harry G. Brown

1917

 Missouri

Missouri
J. B. Canning

1924

 Stanford

Stanford
T. N. Carver

1908

 Harvard

Harvard (Emeritus)
Paul T. Cherington

1914

 Harvard

McKinsey & Co., Management Consultants, 60 East 42nd St., N.Y.C.
F. E. Clark

1921

 Northwestern

Northwestern
F. R. Clow*

1904

 State Normal, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
J. B. Condliffe

1941

 California

California
Frederick E. Croxton

1926

 Ohio State

Columbia
E. E. Day

1910

 Harvard

Cornell
F. S. Deibler

1917

 Northwestern

Northwestern (Emeritus)
J. C. Duncan

1913

 Illinois
J. F. Ebersole

1914

 Minnesota

Harvard
Donald English

1916

 Cornell

Cornell
Frank A. Fetter

1926

 Princeton

Princeton (Emeritus)
Martin G. Glaeser

1930

 Wisconsin

Wisconsin
John Paul Good

1899

 Eastern Ill. State Normal, Charleston
Frank D. Graham

1930

 Princeton

Princeton
Waldo E. Grimes

1939

 Kansas State College

Kansas State College
Lawrence H. Grinstead

1926

 Ohio State
Walton H. Hamilton

1917

 Amherst

Yale
Matthew B. Hammond*

1921

 Ohio State
Max S. Handman*

1928

 Texas
Lewis H. Haney

1914

 Texas

New York
Charles O. Hardy

1923
1925)
1929)
1933)

 State Univ. of Iowa

Brookings Institution

Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City, Missouri
Ernest L. Harris

1904
Grover G. Heubner

1926

 Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania
Jens P. Jensen*

1920)
1930)

 Kansas
Alvin S. Johnson

1909

 Texas

New School for Social Research
Eliot Jones

1925

 Stanford

Stanford
Albert S. Keister

1926)
1927)

 North Carolina Woman’s College

North Carolina Woman’s College
William S. Krebs

1921

 Washington University

Washington University
Robert R. Kuczynski

1923

 Statistical Office, Berlin

12 Lawn Rd., London, N.W. 3, England
Ben W. Lewis

1931)
1937)

 Oberlin

Oberlin
H. L. Lutz

1915

 Oberlin

Princeton
Leverett S. Lyon

1926)
1927

 Brookings Institution

Chicago Association of Commerce
James D. Magee

1916

 Cincinnati

New York
T. W. Mitchell

1911

 Minnesota
Bernard Moses*

1898

 California
Edwin G. Nourse

1931

 Brookings Institution

Brookings Institution
T. W. Page*

1898

 Randolph-Macon
Maffeo Pantaleoni*

1896

 Naples
C. A. Phillips

1931

 State Univ. of Iowa

State Univ. of Iowa
H. H. Preston

1924

 Univ. of Washington

Univ. of Washington
Benjamin M. Rastall

1910

 Wisconsin
H. L. Reed

1923

 Washington University

Cornell
R. R. Renne

1940

 Montana State

Montana State
Edward V. Robinson*

1908

 Minnesota
Clyde O. Ruggles

1916)
1920)

 Ohio State

Harvard
William J. Shultz

1926

 College of the City of New York

College of the City of New York
Guy E. Snider

1915

 College of the City of New York

College of the City of New York
A. E. Staley

1941

 Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C.
George J. Stigler

1943

 Minnesota

Minnesota
Walter W. Stewart

1915

 Missouri

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
R. H. Tawney

1939

 London

London
George O. Virtue*

1915

 Nebraska
Norman J. Ware

1942

 Wesleyan

Wesleyan
G. S. Wehrwein*

1940

 Wisconsin
Louis Weld

1916

 Yale

McCann-Erikson Co., New York
Albert C. Whitaker

1912)
1913)

 Stanford

Stanford (Emeritus)
Nathaniel R. Whitney

1921

 Cincinnati

Proctor and Gamble, Cincinnati
Murray S. Wildman*

1909

 Missouri
John H. Williams

1921

 Northwestern

Harvard
Milburn L. Wilson

1923

 Montana

Chief, Nutrition Programs Branch, Office of Distribution, War Food Administration
Ambrose P. Winston

1913

 Pekin
A. B. Wolfe

1915

 Texas

Ohio State
Holbrook Working

1928

 Stanford

Stanford
Bruce Wyman*

1903

 Harvard
Allyn A. Young*

1912

 Washington University
Ernest C. Young

1939

 Purdue

Purdue

Source: University of Chicago Library, Department of Special Collections. Office of the President. Hutchins Administration Records. Box 73, Folder “Economics Dept., “Post-War Plans” Simeon E. Leland, 1945″.

Image Source: Detail of Simeon E. Leland photograph. University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-03717, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

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Harvard. 24 Ph.D. candidates examined 1926-27

In one box at the Harvard Archives (Harvard University/Examinations for the Ph.D. [HUC7000.70]), I found an incomplete run of published Ph.D. examination announcements for the Division of History and Political Science [later Division of History, Government, and Economics] from 1903-04 through 1926-27. Earlier I transcribed the announcement for 1915-16. Today’s posting gives us (1) the date of the scheduled general or special Ph.D. examinations (2) the names of the examination committee (3) the subjects of the general examination, and (4) the academic history of the examinees for two dozen economics Ph.D. candidates examined during the academic year 1926-27.

The largest shadows cast by members of this cohort belong to the (later) Harvard economics professor Edward H. Chamberlin and the co-author of The Modern Corporation and Private Property, Gardiner C. Means. Laughlin Currie and Harry Dexter White also belonged to this cohort of examinees.

Fun fact: Richard Vincent Gilbert was the father of Walter Myron Gilbert, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1980.

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DIVISION OF HISTORY, GOVERNMENT, AND ECONOMICS

EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF PH.D.
1926-27

Notice of hour and place will be sent out three days in advance of each examination.
The hour will ordinarily be 4 p.m.

James Ackley Maxwell.

Special Examination in Economics, Monday, October 25, 1926.
General Examination passed, October 30, 1923.
Academic History: Dalhousie University, 1919-21; Harvard College, 1921-23; Harvard Graduate School, 1923-27. B.A., Dalhousie, 1921; A.M., Harvard, 1923. Assistant Professor of Economics, Clark University, 1925-.
General Subjects: 1. Money and Banking. 2. Economic Theory and its History. 3. Economic History to 1750. 4. Statistics. 5. History of Political Theory. 6. Public Finance.
Special Subject: Public Finance.
Committee: Professors Bullock (chairman), Burbank, A. H. Cole, and Usher.
Thesis Subject: A Financial History of Nova Scotia, 1848-99. (With Professor Bullock.)
Committee on Thesis: Professors Bullock, Burbank, and Usher.

Kan Lee.

Special Examination in Economics, Thursday, October 28, 1926.
General Examination passed, January 6, 1926.
Academic History: Tsing Hua College, China, 1917-20; University of Missouri, 1920-22; University of Chicago, summer of 1921; Harvard Graduate School, 1922-27. B.J., Missouri, 1922; A.B., ibid., 1922; A.M., Harvard, 1924
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory. 2. Money, Banking, and Crises. 3. Public Finance. 4. International Trade and Tariff Problems. 5. History of the Far East. 6. Socialism and Social Reconstruction.
Special Subject: Socialism and Social Reconstruction.
Committee: Professors Carver (chairman), James Ford, Mason, and Young.
Thesis Subject: British Socialists: Their Concept of Capital. (With Professor Carver.)
Committee on Thesis: Professors Carver, Mason, and Young.

Donald Wood Gilbert.

General Examination in Economics, Friday, October 29, 1926.
Committee: Professors Young (chairman), Crum, Gay, McIlwain, and Williams.
Academic History: University of Rochester, 1917-21; Harvard Graduate School, 1923-25. A.B., Rochester, 1921; M.A., ibid., 1923. Assistant in Economics, Harvard, 1924-25; Instructor in Economics, Rochester, 1925-.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Economic History since 1750. 3. Statistical Method and its Application. 4. History of Political Theory. 5. International Trade and Tariff Policy. 6. Commercial Crises.
Special Subject: Commercial Crises.
Thesis Subject: Undecided.

Arthur William Marget.

Special Examination in Economics, Thursday, January 20, 1927.
General Examination passed, May 24, 1923..
Academic History: Harvard College, 1916-20; Cambridge University, England, fall term, 1920; London School of Economics, winter term 1920-21, University of Berlin, summer term 1921; Harvard Graduate School, 1921-27 A.B., Harvard, 1920; A.M., ibid., 1921. Assistant in Economics, Harvard, 1923-27.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Socialism and Social Reform. 3. Public Finance. 4. Statistical Method and its Application. 5. American History since 1789. 6. Money, Banking, and Crises.
Special Subject: Money and Banking.
Committee: Professors Young (chairman), A.H. Cole, Taussig, and Williams.
Thesis Subject: The Loan Fund: A pecuniary approach to the problem of the determination of the rate of interest.. (With Professor Young.)
Committee on Thesis: Professors Young, Taussig, and Williams.

Richard Vincent Gilbert.

General Examination in Economics, Wednesday, February 9, 1927.
Committee: Professors Young (chairman), Crum, Monroe, Usher, and Woods.
Academic History: University of Pennsylvania, 1919-20; Harvard College, 1920-23; Harvard Graduate School, 1923-. B.S., Harvard, 1923; M.A., Harvard, 1925. Assistant in Economics, Harvard, 1923-.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Money and Banking. 3. Statistics. 4. Economic History since 1776. 5. History of Ancient Philosophy. 6. Theory of International Trade.
Special Subject: Theory of International Trade.
Thesis Subject: Theory of International Trade. (With Professor Taussig.)

Melvin Gardner deChazeau.

General Examination in Economics, Monday, February 21, 1927.
Committee: Professors Taussig (chairman), A.H. Cole, Crum, Demos, and Young.
Academic History: University of Washington, 1921-25; Harvard Graduate School, 1925-. A.B., Washington, 1924; M.A., ibid., 1925. Instructor and Tutor, Harvard, 1926-27.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Economic History since 1750. 3. Statistics. 4. Money and Banking. 5. Ethics. 6. Regulation of Public Utilities.
Special Subject: Regulation of Public Utilities.
Thesis Subject: Undecided.

Donald Milton Erb.

General Examination in Economics, Friday, February 25, 1927.
Committee: Professors Carver (chairman), Burbank, Gay, Morison, and Williams.
Academic History: University of Illinois, 1918-22, 1923-25; Harvard Graduate School. 1925-. S.B., Illinois, 1922; S.M., ibid., 1924. Assistant in Economics, Illinois, 1923-25.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory. 2. Economic History since 1750. 3. Sociology. 4. Public Finance. 5. American History since 1789. 6. Transportation.
Special Subject: Transportation.
Thesis Subject: Railroad Abandonments and Additions in the United States since 1920. (With Professor Ripley.)

Douglass Vincent Brown.

General Examination in Economics, Wednesday, March 2, 1927.
Committee: Professors Taussig (chairman), Bullock, Ford, Persons and Schlesinger.
Academic History: Harvard College, 1921-25; Harvard Graduate School, 1925-. A.B., Harvard, 1925; A.M., ibid., 1926.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Statistics. 3. Sociology. 4. Money, Banking, and Crises. 5. American History since 1789. 6. Labor Problems.
Special Subject: Labor Problems.
Thesis Subject: Restriction of Output. (With Professors Taussig and Ripley.)

Mark Anson Smith.

Special Examination in Economics, Friday, April 8, 1927.
General Examination passed, May 11, 1916.
Academic History: Dartmouth College, 1906-10; University of Wisconsin, 1911-14; Harvard Graduate School, 1915-17. A.B., Dartmouth, 1910; A.M., Wisconsin, 1913. Instructor in Economics at Simmons College, 1916-17.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Economic History since 1750. 3. Money, Banking, and Crises. 4. Economics of Corporations. 5. American Government and Constitutional Law.
Special Subject: Public Finance.
Committee: Professors Taussig (chairman), Bullock, Usher, and Williams.
Thesis Subject: Economic Aspects of the Duties on Wool, with special reference to the period, 1912-1924. (With Professor Bullock.)
Committee on Thesis: Professors Taussig, A. H. Cole, and Usher.

Lauchlin Bernard Currie.

General Examination in Economics, Monday, April 11, 1927.
Committee: Professors Young (chairman), Burbank, A.H. Cole, Usher, and Wright.
Academic History: St. Francis Zavier College, 1921-22; London School of Economics, 1922-25; Harvard Graduate School, 1925-. B.Sc., London, 1925.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory. 2. Economic History since 1750. 3. Public Finance. 4. International Trade and Tariff Policy. 5. History of Political Theory. 6. Money, Banking, and Crises.
Special Subject: Money, Banking, and Crises.
Thesis Subject: Monetary History of Canada, 1914-26. (With Professor Young.)

Harry Dexter White.

General Examination in Economics, Thursday, April 14, 1927.
Committee: Professors Taussig (chairman), Dewing, Elliott, Monroe, and Usher.
Academic History: Columbia University, 1921-23; Stanford University, 1924-25; Harvard Graduate School, 1925-. A.B., Stanford, 1924; A.M., ibid., 1925. Instructor in Economics, Harvard, 1926-.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Money, Banking, and Crises. 3. Economic History since 1750. 4. Economics of Corporations. 5. History of Political Theory. 6. International Trade .
Special Subject: International Trade.
Thesis Subject: Foreign Trade of France. (With Professor Taussig.)

Margaret Randolph Gay.

General Examination in Economics, Friday, April 15, 1927.
Committee: Professors Usher (chairman), A.H. Cole, McIlwain, Taussig, and Young.
Academic History: Radcliffe College, 1918-22, 1922-23, 1925-. A.B., Radcliffe, 1922; A.M., ibid., 1923.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory. 2. Money, Banking, and Crises. 3. International Trade. 4. Economic History after 1750. 5. Political Theory. 6. English Economic History before 1750.
Special Subject: English Economic History, 1485-1750.
Thesis Subject: The Statute of Artificers, 1563-1811. (With Professor Gay.)

(Mary) Gertrude Brown.

General Examination in Economics, Thursday, April 28, 1927.
Committee: Professors Gay (chairman), Elliott, Taussig, Williams, and Young.
Academic History: Mount Holyoke College, 1920-24; Columbia University, summer of 1924; Radcliffe College, 1924-. A.B., Mount Holyoke, 1924; A.M., Radcliffe, 1926. Assistant in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1924-26. Tutor, Bryn Mawr Summer School, 1926.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory. 2. International Trade and Tariff Policy. 3. Money, Banking, and Crises. 4. Comparative Modern Government. 5. Labor Problems. 6. Economic History since 1750.
Special Subject: Economic History since 1750.
Thesis Subject: The History of the American Silk Industry. (With Professor Gay.)

Eric Englund.

General Examination in Economics, Monday, May 2, 1927.
Committee: Professors Bullock (chairman), Black, Dickinson, Usher, and Young.
Academic History: Oregon Agricultural College, 1914-18; University of Oregon, summers of 1915, 1916, and 1917; University of Wisconsin, 1919-21; University of Chicago, summer of 1920; Harvard Graduate School, 1926-. B.S., Oregon Agricultural College, 1918; A.B., University of Oregon, 1919; M.S., Wisconsin, 1920. Professor of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1921-26.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Money, Banking, and Crises. 3. Economics of Agriculture. 4. Economic History since 1750. 5. History of Political Theory. 6. Public Finance.
Special Subject: Public Finance.
Thesis Subject: Studies in Taxation in Kansas. (With Professor Bullock.)

Walter Edwards Beach.

General Examination in Economics, Wednesday, May 4, 1927.
Committee: Professors Young (chairman), Baxter, A.H. Cole, Dewing, and Williams.
Academic History: State College of Washington, 1919-20; Stanford University, 1920-22; 1923-24, Harvard Graduate School, 1925-26. A.B., Stanford, 1922; A.M., Harvard, 1926. Instructor in Economics, Bowdoin, 1926-.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Economics of Corporations. 3. International Trade and Tariff Policy. 4. Economic History since 1750. 5. American History since 1789. 6. Money, Banking, and Crises.
Special Subject: Money, Banking, and Crises.
Thesis Subject: International Gold Movements in Relation to Business Cycles. (With Professor Young.)

Ram Ganesh Deshmukh.

Special Examination in Economics, Thursday, May 5, 1927.
General Examination passed, May 13, 1926.
Academic History: Wilson College, India, 1912-17; Bombay University Law School, 1917-20; Harvard Graduate School, 1922-27. B.A., Bombay University, 1917; LL.B., ibid., 1920; A.M., Harvard, 1924.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Economic History since 1750. 3. Economics of Agriculture. 4. Sociology. 5. History of Political Theory. 6. Public Finance.
Special Subject: Public Finance.
Committee: Professors Bullock (chairman), Burbank, A.H. Cole, and Williams.
Thesis Subject: State Highways in Massachusetts. (With Professor Bullock.)
Committee on Thesis: Professors Bullock (chairman), Burbank, and A.H. Cole.

Charles Donald Jackson.

General Examination in Economics, Thursday, May 5, 1927.
Committee: Professors Young (chairman), Black, Crum, Merk, and Taussig.
Academic History: Leland Stanford Junior University, 1915-16; Northwestern University, 1916-17, 1919-21; University of Wisconsin, summer of 1920 and 1921; Harvard Graduate School, 1921-22, 1924-. S.B., Northwestern, 1920; M.B.A., ibid., 1921; A.M., Harvard, 1925.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Agricultural Economics. 3. International Trade and Tariff Policy. 4. Statistics. 5. American History since 1789. 6. Money, Banking, and Crises.
Special Subject: Money, Banking, and Crises.
Thesis Subject: Agricultural Credit. (With Professor Young.)

Elmer Joseph Working.

General Examination in Economics, Friday, May 6, 1927.
Committee: Professors Carver (chairman), Crum, Morison, Williams, and Young.
Academic History: University of Denver, 1916-17, 1918-19; George Washington University, 1917-18; University of Arizona, 1919-21; Iowa State College, 1921-23; University of Minnesota, 1922-23, second half-year; Brookings Graduate School, 1924-25; Harvard Graduate School, 1925-26. B.S., Arizona, 1921; M.S., Iowa, 1922. Assistant professor of Economics, University of Minnesota, 1926-27.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Statistical Method and its Application. 3. Money, Banking, and Crises. 4. International Trade and Tariff Policy. 5. American History since 1789. 6. Economics of Agriculture.
Special Subject: Economics of Agriculture.
Thesis Subject: The Orderly Marketing of Grain. (With Professor Taussig.)

Gardiner Coit Means.

General Examination in Economics, Thursday, May 12, 1927.
Committee: Professors Williams (chairman), Baxter, A.H. Cole, Dewing, and Gay.
Academic History: Harvard College, 1914-18; Harvard Graduate School, 1925-. A.B., Harvard, 1918.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory. 2. International Trade and Tariff Policy. 3. Economics of Corporations. 4. Economic History since 1750. 5. American History since 1789. 6. Money, Banking, and Crises.
Special Subject: Money, Banking, and Crises.
Thesis Subject: Fluctuations in New England’s Balance of Trade. (With Professor Williams.)

Bishop Carleton Hunt.

Special Examination in Economics, Friday, May 13, 1927.
Committee: Professors Young (chairman), W.M. Cole, Gay, McIlwain, and Williams.
Academic History: Boston University, 1916-20; Harvard Graduate School, 1925-27, summers of 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, and 1925. B.B.A., Boston University, 1920; A.M., Harvard, 1926. Professor of Commerce, Dalhousie University, 1920-; Lecturer in Economics, Nova Scotia Technical College, 1920-23.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory. 2. Economic History since 1750. 3. International Trade. 4. Accounting. 5. History of Political Theory. 6. Money and Banking.
Special Subject: Money and Banking.
Thesis Subject: Underwriting Syndicates and the Supply of Capital. (With Professor Young.)

Edward Hastings Chamberlin.

Special Examination in Economics, Friday, May 20, 1927.
General Examination passed, May 22, 1924.
Academic History: State University of Iowa, 1916-20; University of Michigan, 1920-22; Harvard Graduate School, 1922-27. B.S., Iowa, 1920; M.A., Michigan, 1922. Instructor in Economics, Iowa, summer of 1921. Assistant in economics, Harvard, 1922-. Tutor in Economics, ibid., 1924-27.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Statistics. 3. Accounting. 4. Economic History. 5. History of Political Theory. 6. Modern Theories of Value and Distribution.
Special Subject: Modern Theories of Value and Distribution.
Committee: Professors Young (chairman), Monroe, Taussig, and Williams.
Thesis Subject: The Theory of Monopolistic Competition. (With Professor Young.)
Committee on Thesis: Professors Young, Carver, and Taussig.

Christopher Roberts.

Special Examination in Economics, Monday, May 23, 1927.
General Examination passed, April 3, 1925.
Academic History: Haverford College, 1916-18, 1919-21; Harvard Graduate School, 1921-27. S.B., Haverford, 1921; A.M., Harvard, 1922. Assistant in Economics, Harvard 1922-25; Tutor in Economics, ibid., 1925-27.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. International Trade and Finance. 3. Statistics. 4. International Law. 5. Public Finance. 6. Economic History since 1750.
Special Subject: Economic History since 1750.
Committee: Professors Gay (chairman), Burbank, A.H. Cole, and Usher.
Thesis Subject: The History of the Middlesex Canal. (With Professor Gay.)
Committee on Thesis: Professors Gay, A.H. Cole, and Cunningham.

Clayton Crowell Bayard.

General Examination in Economics, Wednesday, May 25, 1927.
Committee: Professors Carver (chairman), James Ford, Hanford, Taussig, and Usher.
Academic History: University of Maine, 1918-22; Harvard Graduate School, 1924-. A.B., Maine, 1922; A.M., Harvard, 1925. Assistant in Social Ethics, Harvard, 1925-26; Tutor in Social Ethics, ibid., 1926-27.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory and its History. 2. Economic History before 1750. 3. Socialism and Social Reform. 4. American Labor Problems. 5. Municipal Government. 6. Sociology.
Special Subject: Sociology and Social Problems.
Thesis Subject: Undecided.

Dorothy Carolin Bacon.

General Examination in Economics, Thursday, May 26, 1927.
Committee: Professors Persons (chairman), Carver, Crum, Gay and Holcombe.
Academic History: Simmons College, 1918-19; Radcliffe College, 1919-22, 1923-24, 1926-. A.B., Radcliffe, 1922; A.M., ibid., 1924. Assistant in Economics, Vassar College, 1924-25. Instructor in Economics, ibid., 1925-26.
General Subjects: 1. Economic Theory. 2. Sociology. 3. History of Political Theory. 4. Statistics. 5. Economic History. 6., Money, Banking and Crises.
Special Subject: Money, Banking and Crises.
Thesis Subject: A Study of the Dispersion of Wholesale Commodity Prices, 1890-1896.  (With Professor Persons.)

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University, Examinations for the Ph.D. (HUC 7000.70), Folder “Examinations for the Ph.D., 1926-1927”.

Image Source:  Photo of Emerson Hall (1905). Harvard Album, 1920. 

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Harvard Alumnus. A.W. Marget. Too Jewish for Chicago? 1927.

Harvard economics Ph.D. (1927), Arthur William Marget (1899-1962), went on to teach at the University of Minnesota (ca 1927-1941) after which he began his second career as an economist at the Fed in Washington, D.C. Of particular interest in this posting is the reference letter sent by Allyn Young to the University of Chicago that is both glowing and explicit about his assistant’s handicap—“one of the chosen people”, i.e. a Jew.

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From the AEA 1957 Handbook of Members

Marget, Arthur William, Bd. of Gov. Fed. Res. System, Washington 25, D.C. (1926 [began membership in AEA]) Bd. of Gov. of Fed. Res. System, dir., Div. of Int. Fin.; b. 1899; A.B., 1920, A.M., 1921, Ph.D., 1927, Harvard; 1920, Univ. of Cambridge; 1921, Univ. of London; 1921, Univ. of Berlin. Fields 7a [Money, Credit, and Banking: Monetary Theory and Policy], 9b [International Economics: Foreign Exchange, International Finance], 2c [History of Economic Thought]. Doc. dis. Loan fund: pecuniary approach to problem of determination of rate of interest. Pub. Theory of prices (Prentice-Hall, 1938, 1942); “Leon Walras and ‘Cash balance approach’ to problem of value of money,” J. P. E., 1931; “Monetary aspects of Schumpeterian system,” Rev. of Econ. and Statis., 1951. Dir. W. W. in Amer., Dir. of Amer. Schol.

 

Source: American Economic Review, Vol. 47, No. 4. Handbook of the American Economic Association (July, 1957), p. 189.

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[ALLYN ABBOTT] YOUNG’S COMMENTS ON A. W. MARGET

[undated, Either 1926 or 1927. A typed copy of an excerpt from a letter by Young]

“The man who has been my assistant for the past three years is taking his degree this year. He has written a very brilliant thesis on “The Loan Fund: A Pecuniary Theory of Interest.” In erudition and cleverness he is as good as any man I have ever had, although I do not think he strikes as deeply in his thinking as the best of them. He graduated at the head of his class at Harvard, and was Phi Beta Kappa Marshal. Harvard sent him abroad on a traveling fellowship for a year, and he has been here for five subsequent years. He writes well and teaches well. All in all he is easily the best product we are turning out this year, and with the exception of James Angell he is as good as we have turned out in years. Now you will ask, ‘What’s wrong?’ His name is A. W. Marget and he is one of the chosen people. More than that he looks it. He is brilliant, loyal, and so good a teacher that he is quite popular among the Harvard undergraduates. The only thing that stands between him and success is his race. If you don’t fill your place next year, you might do worse than to take him on for a year’s trial.”

Source: University of Chicago Archives. Department of Economics, Records. Box 38, Folder 1.

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PRICE GREENLEAF AWARDS MADE
Fifty-Four Freshmen Received Benefits From Endowment Fund.

Fifty-four members of the Freshman Class have been awarded Price Greenleaf aid assignments for 1916-17. These awards represent part of an annual appropriation of $16,000 given to the University by the bequest of Ezekiel Price Greenleaf, of Quincy, who is also the founder of ten Price Greenleaf scholarships.

The income of the Price Greenleaf fund is distributed in sums from $100 to $250 a year, to undergraduates in the first year of their residence and to deserving students who have not succeeded in the competition for scholarships.

A subsequent award will be made in February to some other first year students of high standing. Following are those who have received the awards:

…Arthur William Marget…

 

Source: The Harvard Crimson, November 1, 1916.

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ADMISSION EXAMINATION HONOR LIST ANNOUNCED
Boston Latin School Leads Number With Exeter Second and St. Paul’s and Newton Third.

The Committee on Admission has issued a list of the Freshmen whose entire entrance examination records have attained an average grade of work worthy of honorable mention. This is published in accordance with a vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, June 2, 1914, authorizing the Committee on Admission to publish each year after the September examinations, a list of those candidates for admission who passed this examination with high grades. This list also gives the names of the students’ schools and the titles of any scholarships they may have received. Boston Latin School leads this year with nine representatives on the list. Exeter is second with seven, and St. Paul’s School, of Concord, N. H., and Newton High School come next with four apiece….

… Arthur William Marget, Boston Latin, (Price Greenleaf Aid)…

 

Source: The Harvard Crimson, November 25, 1916.

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Marget Elected Marshal of Scholars

Arthur William Marget 1G, of Roxbury, has been elected First Marshal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at the University, an office which each year goes to the student ranking highest in his studies. Marget completed the College course in three years, graduated with the class of 1919, and is now attending the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Source: The Harvard Crimson, November 12, 1919.

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Image Source: Arthur William Marget in Harvard Album 1928.

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Cornell. Economics Courses and Faculty, 1914-15

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In 1914 Frank H. Knight switched from graduate work in Philosophy to Economics at Cornell where he studied under (among others) Alvin S. Johnson and Allyn A. Young. His handwritten notes (on index cards) for his courses then can be found in his papers at the University of Chicago archives. These note-cards provide a fairly complete record of the economics training available provided at Cornell at that time. We will have occasion in future postings to refer to those notes, so that I thought it would be useful to post here (i) a transcription of the Cornell economics program as of 1914/1915 (embedded within “Political Science”) along with (ii) a list of the courses offered and (iii) nano-c.v.’s for the faculty.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE
[Cornell 1914-15]

Professors: W.F. WILLCOX, Economics and Statistics; A. S. JOHNSON, Economics and Distribution; A. A. YOUNG, Economics and Finance; S. P. ORTH, Economics and Politics; G. N. LAUMAN, Rural Economy; JOHN BAUER, Economics; J. R. TURNER, Economics; R. S. SABY, Political Science; R. G. BLAKEY, Economics; A. P. USHER, Economics.

Instructors: F. H. GILMAN, Economics; H. E. SMITH, Economics.

 

A graduate student in economics should have studied at least the equivalent of elementary courses in economics, economic history, politics, and social science. If he has not done this, he should take such elementary courses as early as possible; he will not ordinarily be allowed to present any of them as partial fulfillment of the requirement for a major or minor in any branch of political science. He should also have sufficient knowledge of French and German to be able to read necessary works in either language.

The work in political science in the President White School of History and Political Science falls into five divisions: economics, politics, statistics and social science, finance and distribution. These divisions aim to bring their work into close relationship with social, political, and business life. The members of the Faculty seek to keep in touch with the practical as well as the with purely scientific aspects of the problems treated, and have among their interests the preparation of students for positions in business and in public service. In statistics and social science, work is offered mainly in statistics, but to some degree also in the less definite field of social science. The statistical method has been found of especial service both in developing a scientific and judicial attitude and in bringing out many facts about social life not discoverable in any other way. After the introductory course in social science, an advanced course is open which deals with the dependent or semi-dependent classes and the care for them exercised by society, in part through governmental agencies and in part through private philanthropy.

In economics and distribution, a graduate course is offered in the theory of value and distribution, which is designed to familiarize the student with the main currents of contemporary economic thought. For undergraduates are offered courses covering the history of economics, the more general economic aspects of the labor problem, the history and theory of socialism, and the organization and methods of socialistic parties.

In economics and finance, a research course is offered to graduate students which is designed to afford training in the appropriate methods of investigation and to give familiarity with the fundamental sources of information. Other courses in this field open to graduates cover the more important economic aspects of both public and private finance.

This group uses two laboratories and several class rooms in proximity to each other and to the four division offices and one general office, an arrangement which has greatly facilitated intercourse between teachers and graduate students as well as among graduate students themselves. In the political science seminary room at the University Library and in the various offices and laboratories occupied by these departments, numerous publications in politics and in economics, such as market letters of leading brokers and technical business journals, are accessible to advanced students. The laboratories for classes in statistics and finance are supplied with standard and current books dealing with these subjects and with various mechanical devices for simple statistical processes and for securing a graphic and effective presentation of results. In the closely related subject of rural economy or agricultural economics, courses are offered dealing with the general economic and social problems of the open country arising from the growing complexity and intensity of agriculture and its relation with commerce, manufacturing, and transportation.

One teaching assistantship yielding $500 and tuition; three fellowships, two yielding $500 and one yielding $600; and two assistantships, each yielding $150 are filled each spring.

 

Source: Cornell University, Announcement of the Graduate School 1914-15, Official Publications of Cornell University Vol. V, No. 3 (January 15, 1914), pp. 34-36.

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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
POLITICAL SCIENCE
[Courses offered 1914-15]

51. Elementary Economics. Throughout the year, credit three hours a term. One lecture and two recitations each week. Lectures, Barnes Auditorium, M, 9; repeated M, 11; Assistant Professor BAUER. Recitations T Th, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; W F, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Assistant Professors BLAKEY, and USHER, Dr. SMITH, and Mr. GILMAN.

An introduction to economics including a survey of business organization and corporation finance; principles of value, money, banking, and prices; international trade; free trade and protection; wages and labor conditions; the control of railroads and trusts; socialism; principles and problems of taxation. Section assignments made at the first lecture.

52. Elements of Economics. Throughout the year, credit two hours a term. Assistant Professor TURNER. Lectures M, 9, repeated T, 9, Goldwin Smith A. Recitations to be arranged.

A special course for seniors in mechanical engineering. Not open to students in other colleges. Production and distribution of wealth, emphasizing particularly the financial or practical view instead of the theoretical. Lectures, textbooks, readings, and class discussions.

 53a. American Government. First term, credit three hours. Assistant Professor SABY. M W, 10, Goldwin Smith 142. Recitation hour to be arranged.

A general introduction to the study of political science with special reference to American government and politics. Lectures, textbook, class discussions.

53b. Comparative Politics. Second term, credit three hours. Assistant Professor SABY. M W, 10, Goldwin Smith 142. Recitation hour to be arranged.

A study of the political institutions of the leading European countries with special reference to their relations to present political problems in the United States. Lectures, textbook, class discussions.

54a. Municipal Administration. First term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 53a. Assistant Professor SABY. M W F, 11, Goldwin Smith 264.

A study of the functions and problems of city government; the administration of public health and safety; charities and corrections; public works and finance; commission form of government. Lectures, textbook, and reports.

54b. State Administration. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 53a. Professor ORTH. M W F, 12, Goldwin Smith 256.

A study of the government of the American State; its relation to local government; the powers and functions of administrative boards and commissions; judicial control.
Lectures, readings, and reports. Each student will be required to make a somewhat detailed study of some particular state.

55a. Elementary Social Science. First term, credit three hours. Course 51 should precede or be taken with this course. Professor WILLCOX. M W F, 9, Goldwin Smith 256.

An introductory course upon social science or sociology, its field and methods, with special reference to the human family as a social unit, to be studied by the comparative, the historical, and the statistical methods.

55b. Elementary Social Science. Second term, credit three hours. Course 51 should precede or be taken with this course. Professor WILLCOX. M W F, 9, Goldwin Smith 256.

A continuation of the preceding course but with especial reference to the dependent, defective, and delinquent classes. Open to all who have taken 55a and by special permission to others.

56a. Elements of Business Law. First term, credit two hours. Professor ORTH. T Th, 11, Goldwin Smith B. Lectures, textbook, quizzes.

A brief survey of that portion of private law which deals especially with contracts, negotiable instruments, agency, and sales.
Courses 56a and 56b are designed primarily to meet the needs of students who contemplate entering business and not the profession of law, and credit will not be given to law students for these courses.

56b. Government Control of Industry. Second term, credit two hours. Prerequisite course 56a. Professor ORTH. T Th, 11, Goldwin Smith B. Lectures, reports, quizzes.

A scrutiny of the policy of governmental control of industry from the legal and political point of view, emphasis being laid on the development of the police power and its application to the regulation of private enterprise.

57a. Lectures on Citizenship. Second term, credit two hours. M W, 12 Goldwin Smith B.

A lecture each Wednesday by a non-resident lecturer and each Monday by a member of the department. The course has been arranged by a committee of Alumni who are actively engaged in civic and social work and who are cooperating in this way with the department. It will follow the same general plan as last year, but the speakers and most of the subjects treated will be changed. Among the subjects presented in 1914-15 will be the Citizen and the Immigrant in America, the Citizen and his Neighborhood, the Citizen and Commercial Organizations, the Citizen and the City Plan.
The course will be under the general charge of Professor WILLCOX. Readings, reports, and essays will be required.

58. Accounting. Throughout the year, credit four hours first term, three hours second term. Courses 51 and 56a must precede or accompany this course. Assistant Professor BAUER. T Th S, 8, Goldwin Smith 264.

59. Financial History of the United States. Second term, credit two hours. Prerequisite course 51. Assistant Professor BLAKEY. T Th, 11, Goldwin Smith 269.

A study of public and quasi-public finance from colonial times to the present. Special attention will be paid to money, currency, banking, tariffs, taxes, expenditures, panics, and war financiering.

60. The American Party System. First term, credit two hours. Prerequisite 53a. Professor ORTH. T Th, 12, Goldwin Smith 256.

A study of the evolution of the American political party; its relations to the machinery of government; election laws; the development of state control over the machinery of party. Lectures, readings, and reports.

[61. Jurisprudence. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite 53a, excepting for law students, to whom the course is open. Professor ORTH. Lectures, textbook, and reports.

A study of the classification and development of the principles of law, dwelling especially upon the growth of English and American legal institutions.
This course alternates with 78b.] Not given in 1914-15.

62. Business Management. Repeated in second term, credit one hour. Prerequisite courses 51 and 58; or 58 may be taken at the same time. Professor KIMBALL. T Th, 12, Sibley 4.

Seniors and graduates; others by permission. See S, 20, Sibley College.

63. Corporations and Trusts. First term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51. Professor YOUNG. T Th S, 11, Goldwin Smith 256.

Deals primarily with the business corporation, with special reference to its economic significance and effects and to the problems of its legal control, concluding with a discussion of industrial combinations.

64. Money and Banking. Throughout the year, credit three hours a term. Prerequisite course 51. Professor YOUNG. T Th S, 10, Goldwin Smith 142.

A discussion of the more important phases of the theory of money and credit is followed by a consideration of selected practical problems, including the revision of the American banking system. Practical work is required in the analysis of the controlling conditions of the money market, of organized speculations in securities, and of foreign exchange.

65a. The Industrial Revolution in England, 1700 to 1850. First term credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51, previously or concurrently, or work in European history. Assistant Professor USHER. M W F, 12, Goldwin Smith 264.

The topography and resources of England, the Industrial Revolution, commercial expansion in the 18th century, the history of the Bank of England, the rise of London as a world metropolis.

65b. Social and Economic Problems of the 19th Century in England. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51, previously or concurrently. Assistant Professor USHER. M W F, 12, Goldwin Smith 264.

The course can be followed most profitably by students who have taken course 65a, but it may be elected independently. The history of English agriculture, 1700 to 1907; the poor laws, 1834 and 1909; the coming of free trade, 1776 to 1846; railroads and rate-making; Germany and the industrial supremacy of England.

66a. The Labor Problem. First term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51. Professor JOHNSON. T Th S, 11, Goldwin Smith 264.

This course will present a systematic view of the progress and present condition of the working class in the United States and in other industrial countries; sketch the history and analyze the aims and methods of labor organizations; study the evolution of institutions designed to improve the condition of the working class; and compare the labor legislation of the United States with that of European countries.

66b. Socialism. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51. Professor JOHNSON. T Th S, 11, Goldwin Smith 264.

Due attention will be given in this course to the various forms of socialistic theory. Its main object, however, is to describe the evolution of the socialist movement and the organization of socialistic parties, to measure the present strength of the movement, and to examine in the concrete its methods and aims.

67. Problems in Market Distribution. Throughout the year, credit two hours a term. W F, 11, Goldwin Smith 245. Assistant Professor TURNER.

First term: lectures, discussions and assigned readings on the origin, growth and change of middlemen and other intermediaries between the producer and the consumer.
Second term: merchandising, selling, and advertising.

68. Railway Transportation. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51. Professor YOUNG. T Th S, 11, Goldwin Smith 256.

The present American railway system, railway finance, theory of rates, methods of public control in Europe, Australia, and America. Some attention is given to the related problem of the control of public service companies.

70. Public Finance. Throughout the year, credit two hours a term. Prerequisite course 51. Assistant Professor BLAKEY. T Th, 12, Goldwin Smith 264.

A study of the principles of government revenue, expenditure and debt, with particular reference to problems of American taxation.

71. Investments. Throughout the year, credit two hours a term. Prerequisite course 51; course 58 should precede or may accompany this course. Dr. SMITH. T Th, 9, Goldwin Smith 245.

[73. Insurance. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite courses 51 and 58; or 58 may be taken at the same time. Assistant Professor BAUER.] Not given in 1914-15.

76a. Elementary Statistics. First term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51. Professor WILLCOX. T Th S, 9, Goldwin Smith 256. Laboratory, W, 2-4, Goldwin Smith 259.

An introduction to census statistics with especial reference to the federal census of 1910, and to registration statistics with especial reference to those of New York State and its cities. The course gives an introduction to the methods and results of statistics in these, its best developed branches.

76b. Economic Statistics. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51. Professor WILLCOX. T Th S, 9, Goldwin Smith 256. Laboratory, W, 2-4, Goldwin Smith 259.

A continuation of course 76a, dealing mainly with the agricultural and industrial statistics of the United States. Mature students that have not already had course 76a or its equivalent may be admitted by special permission. The course is an introduction to statistics in its application to more difficult fields, such as production, wages, prices, and index numbers.

78a. International Law and Diplomacy. First term, credit three hours. President SCHURMAN and Assistant Professor SABY. M W F, 11, Goldwin Smith 256. Lectures, textbook, and reports. Open to juniors and seniors in Arts and Sciences, to students in Law, and to approved upperclassmen in other colleges.

While this course aims to present a systematic view of the rights and obligations of nations in times of peace and war, it particularly emphasizes our contemporary international problems and the participation of the United States in the development of international law.

78b. Constitutional Government. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 53a. Professor ORTH. M W F, 11, Goldwin Smith 256. Lectures, textbook, and reports.

A study of the development of the American constitutional system.

[79a. History of Political Thought. First term, credit two hours. Assistant Professor SABY.

A study in the development of political thought from the Greeks to modern times in its relation to the history and development of political institutions. Lectures, textbook, and assigned readings.] Not given in 1914-15.

79b. Modern Political Thought. Second term, credit three hours. Assistant Professor SABY. T Th S, 10, Goldwin Smith 256.

A general survey of the more important modern political movements. Ideas and ideals underlying the present political unrest. The different political ideas that have at different times striven for supremacy in American political life. Lectures, textbook, and assigned readings.

[80. The History of Protection and of Free Trade in Europe since 1660. First term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51; or open by special permission to those who have had courses in European history. Assistant Professor USHER.] Not given in 1914-15.

[81. The History of Price Making and the Growth of Produce Exchanges. Second term, credit three hours. Prerequisite course 51; open by special permission to those who have had courses in European history. Assistant Professor USHER.] Not given in 1914-15.

82. Public Utilities: Problems of Accounting, Valuation and Control. Second term, credit three hours. Assistant Professor BAUER. F, 2.30, Goldwin Smith 269.

This course will center about the accounting problems connected with the regulation of public service corporations, considering especially, with critical analysis, the systems of uniform accounting prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission and the New York and other state Public Service Commissions, and the principles of valuation adopted for rate making purposes. Open to graduates and by permission to especially qualified seniors.

 

87. The History of Economic Theory. Throughout the year, credit three hours a term. Professor JOHNSON. T Th S, 9, Goldwin Smith 264.

The main currents of economic theory from the mercantilistic writers to the present day. Chief emphasis will be laid upon the development of the individualistic economic doctrines in 18th century France and England; the conditions, economic and social, upon which they were based; the consolidation of the doctrines in classical economics, and the modifications they have undergone.

88. Value and Distribution. Throughout the year credit, two hours a term. Professor JOHNSON. Th, 2.30, Political Science Seminary Room.

A study of the chief problems of current economic theory. The works of the chief contemporary authorities will be critically studied with a view to disclosing the basis of existing divergences in point of view.
It is desirable that students registering for this course should have a reading knowledge of German and French.

90. Research in Statistics. Throughout the year, credit to be arranged. Professor WILLCOX.

92. Research in Finance. Throughout the year, credit two or three hours a term. Professor YOUNG. T, 2.30, Political Science Seminary.

Individual or cooperative investigations of selected problems in money, banking, and corporation finance, in connection with lectures upon the bibliography of the sources and upon the use of the statistical method in such investigations.

93. Research in Accounting. Throughout the year, credit two to three hours a term. Prerequisite course 58. Assistant Professor BAUER. Hours to be arranged.

For especially qualified students interested in particular accounting problems.

94. Research in Politics. Throughout the year, credit one to three hours a term. Professor ORTH. Hours and room to be arranged.

A research course for advanced students in public law and political science.

95. Seminary in Political Science and Public Law. Throughout the year, credit two hours a term. Professor ORTH. W, 2.30, Political Science Seminary.

An advanced course for the study of some special topic to be announced. Open to especially qualified students by permission of the professor in charge.

99. General Seminary. Throughout the year, credit two hours a term. Conducted by members of the department. M, 2.30-4.30, Goldwin Smith 269.

For research in the field of political sciences. Open only to graduate students.

 

Source: Official Publications of Cornell University, Vol. V, No. 10: Announcement of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1915-15, pp. 29-34.

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[Cornell Faculty offering courses in Political Science 1914-15]

 

Bauer, John, A. B., Yale, 1906; Ph.D.,1908; Leave of Absence, 1914-15.

Instructor, 1908; Assistant Professor of Economics, 1910.

Blakey, Roy Gillespie, A.B., Drake, 1905; A.M., Colorado, 1910; Ph.D., Columbia, 1912.

Assistant Professor of Economics, 1912.

English, Donald, B.S., University of California; M.B.A., Harvard, 1914.

Acting Assistant Professor of Economics, 1914.

Gilman, Frederick Hubert, A.B., Wesleyan, 1909; A.M., Cornell, 1910.

Instructor of Economics.

Johnson, Alvin Saunders, A.B., Nebraska; A.M., 1898; Ph.D., Columbia, 1902.

Professor of Economics, 1912.

Kimball, Dexter Simpson, A.B., Leland Stanford, 1896; M.E., Leland Stanford.

Assistant Professor, 1898-1901; Acting Director of Sibley College, second term, 1911-12; Professor of Machine Design and Construction, 1904.

Lauman, George Nieman, B.S.A., Cornell, 1897.

Assistant in Horticulture, 1897; Instructor, 1899; Instructor in Rural Economy, 1903; Assistant Professor, 1905; Professor of Rural Economy, 1909.

Orth, Samuel Peter, A.B., Oberlin, 1896; Ph.D., Columbia, 1902.

Acting Professor, 1912, Professor of Political Science, 1913.

Saby, Rasmus S., A.B. Minnesota, 1907; A.M. 1907; Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1910.

Assistant, 1909; Instructor in Economics. 1910, Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1912.

Schurman, Jacob Gould, A.B., University of London, 1877; A.M., 1878; D.Sc., University of Edinburgh, 1878; LL.D., Columbia, 1892; Yale, 1901; Edinburgh, 1902; Williams, 1908; Dartmouth, 1909; Harvard, 1909.

Professor of Philosophy, 1886. President of the University, 1892.

Smith, Harry Edwin, A.B., De Pauw, 1906; A.M., 1906; Ph.D., Cornell, 1912.

Instructor of Economics.

Turner, John Roscoe, M.S., Ohio Northern, 1903; Ph.D., Princeton, 1913.

Assistant, 1908; Instructor, 1909; Lecturer, 1911, Assistant Professor of Economics, 1913.

Usher, Abbott Payson, A.B., Harvard, 1904; A.M., 1905; Ph.D., Ph.D., 1910.

Instructor, 1910. Assistant Professor of Economics, 1914.

Willcox, Walter Francis, A.B., Amherst, 1884; LL.B., A.M., Amherst, 1888; LL.D., Amherst, 1906; Ph.D., Columbia, 1907.

Instructor in Logic, 1891; Assistant Professor of Social Science and Statistics and Political Economy, 1892; Assistant Professor of Social Science and Statistics, 1893; Associate Professor, 1894; Professor, 1898; Professor of Political Economy and Statistics, 1901; Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 1901-07; Professor of Economics and Statistics, 1910.

Young, Allyn Abbott, Ph.B., Hiram College, 1894; Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1902.

Professor of Economics and Finance, 1913.

 

Sources: Official Publications of Cornell University, Vol. V, No. 10: Announcement of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1914-15, pp. 29-34. Supplementary information from The Cornellian, The Year Book of Cornell University. Vol. XLVII.

Image Source: Goldwin Smith Hall, illustration between pages 36 and 37. Guide to the Campus: Cornell University (1920).

 

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Citizen’s Library of Economics, Politics and Sociology. Richard T. Ely, ed. 1900…

The University of Wisconsin economist, Richard T. Ely, served as the general editor for the social science series entitled “The Citizen’s Library of Economics, Politics and Sociology.” He actually disliked the title “Citizen’s Library” that had been given by Macmillan.  He thought it would give an unintended popular stigma to the scientific works he intended to include (Benjamin G. Radar [1966], The Academic Mind and Reform: The Influence of Richard T. Ely in American Life, p. 156). 

Links are provided to all the individual items but one (I couldn’t find an online copy of Blackmar’s Elements of Sociology).

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THE CITIZEN’S LIBRARY
OF ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND SOCIOLOGY.

Edited by Richard T. Ely, Ph.D., LL.D.
Professor of Economics in the University of Wisconsin

Published by The Macmillan Company, New York

EDITOR’S PREFACE

The present volume is the first in a Library having the above title. It is hoped eventually to cover the three fields of knowledge indicated by the title in such way that the various series included in the Library will afford such complete information concerning the theory and facts of these sciences that the volumes will have some of the advantages of an encyclopedic work combined with those of separate and distinct treatises. To aid in the accomplishment of this purpose, it is planned to issue from time to time an index volume or supplement, binding together a series on closely related subjects. [Note: not aware this ever happened] This Library thus includes new and valuable features, for it will give to the public a set of works affording information on topics of importance to every citizen which must now be sought in a great multiplicity of sources, and often sought in vain.

The character of the writers and the management of the Library will be such as to inspire confidence. The utmost pains will be taken to secure the greatest possible accuracy in all statistical tables and statements of fact and theory, and no partisan bias will disturb the conclusions. It is the conviction of the Editor that scientific work in the field of the humanities may generally be made interesting to intelligent citizens through cultivation of clearness in statement and literary style. There are masterpieces even in Economics, for example, which rank as literature, as Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and John Stuart Mill’s Political Economy bear witness. It is desired to lay emphasis on the fact that while the sciences of Economics, Politics, and Sociology are of concern to the citizen, and make appropriate the title ” Citizen’s Library,” in no case will the interests of science be sacrificed to popularity. The aim will be to bring every volume in the Library up to the present standard of science, and it is hoped that the Library will in more than one instance push forward the boundaries of knowledge.

In conclusion, it only remains to add that the various authors assume responsibility for expressions of opinion, and that publication in the Library does not necessarily mean an endorsement either by publishers or Editor of views found in the several volumes.

The Editor.

Source: Ely, Richard T. Monopolies and Trusts , New York: Macmillan, 1900, pp. ix-xi.

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BOOKS IN THE CITIZEN’S LIBRARY
OF ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND SOCIOLOGY.

Addams, Jane. (1902). Democracy and Social Ethics.

Addams, Jane. (1907). Newer Ideals of Peace.

Baker, M. N. (1902). Municipal Engineering and Sanitation.

Blackmar, Frank Wilson. (1908). The Elements of Sociology.

Bradford, Ernest S. (1911). Commission Government in American Cities.

Bullock, Charles J. (1900). Essays on the Monetary History of the United States.

Carlton, Frank Tracy. (1908). Education and Industrial Evolution.

Ely, Richard T. (1893).  Outlines of Economics.

Ely, Richard T. (1893, reprinted 1900). Outlines of Economics.

Ely, Richard T., Thomas S. Adams, Max O. Lorenz, and Allyn A. Young. (1908, revised and enlarged). Outlines of Economics.

Ely, Richard T. (1900). Monopolies and Trusts.

Ely, Richard T. (1903). Studies in the Evolution of Industrial Society.

Ely, Richard T. (1905 reprint of 1886). Labor Movement in America.

Fisk, George Mygatt. (1907). International Commercial Policies with Special Reference to the United States, a Text Book.

Hobson, John A. (1900). The Economics of Distribution.

Jones, Edward D. (1900). Economic Crises.

Kelley, Florence. (1905). Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation.

Kinley, David. (1904). Money.

MacLean, Annie Marion. (1910). Wage-Earning Women.

Macy, Jesse. (1900). Political Parties in the United States, 1846-1861.

Mangold, George B. (1910). Child Problems.

Mead, Elwood. (1903) Irrigation Institutions. A Discussion of the Economic and Legal Questions Created by the Growth of Irrigated Agriculture in the West.

Meyer, Balthasar Henry (1909). Railway Legislation in the United States.

Parmelee, Maurice. (1908). The Principles of Anthropology and Sociology in Their Relations To Criminal Procedure.

Reinsch, Paul S. (1900). World Politics at the End of the Nineteenth Century as Influenced by the Oriental Situation.

Reinsch, Paul S. (1902). Colonial Government.

Reinsch, Paul S. (1905). Colonial Administration.

Ross, E. A. and Aleworth, E. (1901). Social control, a survey of the foundations of order.

Ross, Edward A. (1905). The Foundations of Sociology.

Smith, J. Allen. (1907). The Spirit of American Government; A Study of the Constitution: its Origin, Influence and Relation to Democracy.

Sparling, Samuel E. (1906). Introduction to Business Organization.

Taylor, Henry C. (1905). An Introduction to the Study of Agricultural Economics.

Vincent, John Martin. (1900). Government in Switzerland.

Wilcox, Delos F. (1904). The American City; A Problem in Democracy.

Wilcox, Delos F. (1910). Great Cities in America, their Problems and their Government.

Zueblin Charles (Revised edition, 1916). American Municipal Progress.

 

Image Source: Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees, Vol. IV (1900), p. 505.

 

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Economists Harvard

Harvard. Economics General Examination. Lauchlin Currie and Harry D. White, 1927

Few characters in the history of economics are quite as titillating as those who serious historians have concluded indeed passed confidential materials to the Soviet Union, namely, Lauchlin Currie and Harry Dexter White. Before they grew up to be card-carrying members of the economics profession, they too were once graduate students. Here from the Harvard General Examination for the Degree of Ph.D. we have their respective examination committees, academic histories, subject fields, and thesis subjects/advisers.  

Lauchlin Currie received his Harvard Ph.D. in 1931 with the dissertation “Bank Assets and Banking Theory.”

Harry Dexter White was awarded his Harvard Ph.D. in 1930 with the dissertation “The International Balance of Payments for France, 1880-1913.”

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From:
Division of History, Government and Economics, Examinations for the Degree of Ph.D., 1926-27, pp. 10-11.

 

21. Lauchlin Bernard Currie.

General Examination in Economics, Monday, April 11, 1927.

Committee: Professors Young (chairman), Burbank, A. H. Cole, Usher, and Wright.

Academic History: St. Francis Xavier College, 1921-22; London School of Economics, 1922-25; Harvard Graduate School, 1925-. B.Sc., London, 1925

General Subjects.

1. Economic Theory.
2. Economic History since 1750.
3. Public Finance.
4. International Trade and Tariff Policy.
5. History of Political Theory.
6. Money, Banking, and Crises.

Special Subject: Money, Banking, and Crises.

Thesis Subject: Monetary History of Canada, 1914-26. (With Professor Young.)

[…]

23. Harry Dexter White.

General Examination in Economics, Thursday, April 14, 1927.

Committee: Professors Taussig (chairman), Dewing, Elliott, Monroe, and Usher.

Academic History: Columbia University, 1921-23; Stanford University, 1924-25; Harvard Graduate School, 1925-.   A.B., Stanford; A.M., ibid., 1925. Instructor in Economics, Harvard, 1926- .

General Subjects.

1. Economic Theory and its History.
2. Money, Banking, and Crises.
3. Economic History since 1750.
4. Economics of Corporations.
5. History of Political Theory.
6. International Trade.

Special Subject: International Trade.

Thesis Subject: Foreign Trade of France. (With Professor Taussig.)

 

 

Source: Harvard University Archives. HUC7000.70. Harvard University, Examinations for the Ph.D. Folder “1926-27”.

Image Source: Laughlin Currie and Harry D. White from Harvard Class Album 1934.