Harvard. Reading list for economics of education and technology. Bowles, 1967-68
The following reading list comes from a Harvard course on the economics of education and technology offered by assistant professor Samuel S. Bowles in the spring semester of the 1967-68 academic year....
View ArticleYale. Meet an assistant professor of economics. Montias, 1960
One of the first professors to lead me into the field of comparative economic systems was John Michael Montias (1928-2005). He provided me an early exposure to the economic theory behind the indexes of...
View ArticleChicago. Meet Ph.D. alumnus, Charles E. Lindblom, 1945
Charles Edward Lindblom (1917-2018!) was a Chicago economics Ph.D. (1945) who ultimately climbed as far up the Yale ranks as you could get – a Sterling Professorship of Political Science and Economics....
View ArticleHarvard. Enrollments, staffing, exams for principles of economics. Taussig,...
It is now time to begin posting transcriptions of course material for the Harvard academic year 1906-07. Sometimes, even for the curator of Economics in the Rear-view Mirror, this becomes a tedious...
View ArticleHarvard. Enrollment and exam questions for principles of sociology. J.A....
Thomas Nixon Carver was on a European sabbatical with his wife and three children during the academic year 1906-07 so substitutes were needed to cover his courses on sociology, agriculture and income...
View ArticleJohn Hopkins. Final exam for graduate macroeconomic theory. Aschheim, Christ,...
The only remarkable thing to note about the following macroeconomics examination from Johns Hopkins is its somewhat confusing scheme for allowing students to select from the questions. No heroic...
View ArticleHarvard. Report assignment and final exam for transportation economics....
With the railroad industry posing so many interesting questions in the organization and regulation of industry, corporate finance, and economic geography it comes as no wonder that William Zebina...
View ArticleHarvard. Reading list and Exam for U.S. Economic History. Gay, 1906-1907
Edwin Francis Gay solo-taught the course on U.S. economic and financial history in 1906-07. He modified and expanded the course reading list from that used in the previous year by him and Taussig, but...
View ArticleHarvard. Exam for European economic history (19th century). Gay, 1906-1907
Before Abbott Payson Usher (1883-1965) and Alexander Gerschenkron (1904-1978) and after William Ashley (1860-1927), Professor Edwin Francis Gay (1867-1946) taught European Economic history in the...
View ArticleHarvard. Exams for Money and Banking. Andrew, 1906-1907
A two course sequence covering money, banking and foreign exchange became an established specialty field at the beginning of the twentieth century. Assistant Professor A. Piatt Andrew covered that...
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