#EconSky The entire battery of courses on social ethics (applied social policy/social work) taught at Harvard 1910-11. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-comp...

#EconSky Meanwhile back on the other side of the Atlantic we catch a glimpse of the instruction in political economy at Oxford University which was embedded within political and social sciences. Edgeworth enters the Oxford scene 1890-91. www.irwincollier.com/oxford-study...

#EconSky Railroad finance and corporate finance were viewed as joined at the hip back when William Z. Ripley taught his course on this at Harvard in 1910-11. Course description, enrollment and final exam are now posted. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-rail...

#EconSky He grew up on a farm so that he was the Harvard economics professor best suited to teach the subject of agricultural economics in his time. From the academic year 1910-11 Professor Thomas Nixon Carver's course description, enrollment, and final exam. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-econ...

#EconSky Arthur M. Day was awarded AB and AM degrees from Harvard in 1892. He was an instructor of economics at Harvard, Columbia and Barnard Colleges before turning to a life of finance. You can run, but you can't hide from Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. www.irwincollier.com/columbia-har...

#EconSky The prescribed reading list for a history of economics course taught by William J. Ashley at Harvard 1899-1900. Links to his entire reading list! www.irwincollier.com/harvard-read...

#EconSky Alleged to have a "snapper problem" Bruce Wyman's Harvard economics course on the principles of the law of industrial relations was designed for Harvard undergraduates planning future careers in business. Description, enrollment, final exam for 1910-11 www.irwincollier.com/harvard-law-...

#EconSky Principles of Accounting had the second highest enrollment of Harvard's economics courses offered in 1910-11. Course description, enrollment figures and semester exams for William Cole's course are now posted at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-prin...

#EconSky A new course in municipal finance was added to Harvard's public finance courses in 1910-11. Charles Phillips Huse who wrote his PhD dissertation on Boston city finances was the instructor. Course description, enrollment, final exam. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-muni...

#EconSky Public finance professor at Harvard, Charles Jesse Bullock, taught an advance course with emphasis on the subject of taxation. For 1910-11 Economics in the Rear-view Mirror has transcribed the course description, enrollment, and semester final exams. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-publ...

#EconSky Six Harvard graduate students were led through economic thought from the Ancient Greeks through the Scottish Enlightenment by Professor Charles Jesse Bullock in 1910-11. Course description, enrollment and semester exams. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-exam...

Amen

Sad to see that Robert Skidelsky has died. His three volume biography of Keynes is a timeless masterpiece, and so much more than the history of one (great) individual. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

Chris Sims, brilliant macroeconomic empiricist, has died. His Nobel acceptance speech: www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018....

So this is interesting. Around 1900 there's a notable shift in approaches to scientific writing. In his 1904 book Notes on the Composition of Scientific Papers, Clifford Albutt advises authors against describing the investigative pathways they followed. The text should be constructed deductively.

#EconSky Thomas Nixon Carver's eighth iteration of his Harvard course on schemes of fundamental economic reform 1910-11. He hoped to disabuse Harvard boys of their visions of social reform. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-meth...

#EconSky Description, enrollment and final exam questions for T. N. Carver's course on the functional distribution of income taught at Harvard 1910-11. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-inco...

#EconSky E.E. Day was a new assistant professor at Harvard tasked with the course on commercial crises and trade cycles in 1910-11. Course description, enrollment, and final exam are now posted. A third of the final was dedicated to specific economic indicators. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-comm...

#EconSky Course description, enrollment and exams for Edwin F. Gay's 1910-11 course on Modern European Economic History. Bonus material: all exams and some reading lists for European economic history at Harvard from 1883-84 through 1909-10. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-mode...

#EconSky Wm Z. Ripley's 1910-11 labor problems course at Harvard. Course description, enrollment and final exam. Added bonus: links to all Harvard labor economics exams 1892-93 through 1909-10. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-prob...

#EconSky The newly appointed asst prof of economics, E.E. Day (Harvard PhD 1909) took over the second half of the money and banking sequence at Harvard in 1910-11. His exam questions plus links to those of the previous four years now posted. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-bank...

#EconSky Money exam questions from the Harvard economics department 1910-11 and links to previous decade's worth of money exams. Taught by Charles Phillips Huse. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-mone...

#EconSky The enrollment and final exam for Harvard's undergraduate public finance course from 1910-11 taught by Charles Phillips Huse. Bonus: links have been provided to all Harvard public finance exams from 1884-1910 posted at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-enro...

#EconSky The enrollment, course description and final exam for W.Z. Ripley's Harvard course on the economics of transportation from 1910-11. Added bonus: links to all the railroad and transportation exams at Harvard from 1887-8 through 1909-10. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-tran...

#EconSky In 1910-11 the head of the Stanford economics department, Allyn Young, visited the Harvard economics department where he taught Ripley's statistics course. Course description, enrollment and final exam. Plus links to earlier exams. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-stat...

#EconSky Exam questions for economics course Principles of Sociology in T. N. Carver's Harvard course 1910-11. Sample: "Discuss the question: Is monarchy or democracy the more highly evolved form of government?" Plus links to all sociology questions, 1893-1910. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-enro...

#EconSky Frank Taussig's Economic Theory exam questions 1910-11 through 1913-14 at Harvard. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-core...

#EconSky Economics in the Rear-view Mirror is beginning its posts of enrollments, course descriptions, exams and misc course material (where available) for Harvard economics courses from 1910-11. We begin with Frank Taussig's Principles of Economics course. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-enro...

#EconSky Regulations for the award of PhD degree in economics at Columbia University, 1904-05. The paper chase at the turn of the 20th century. www.irwincollier.com/columbia-gra...

#EconSky Minutes of visiting committee of the department of economics and social science at MIT, 3 March 1947. "The point was made that the staff does not attempt to indoctrinate the students with the theories of any particular school of economists." www.irwincollier.com/mit-minutes-...

#EconSky The requirements (M.A. and Ph.D.) for economics degrees at the University of Chicago as of 1934-35. With links to the analogous requirements at Harvard and Columbia in the same years. www.irwincollier.com/chicago-requ...

#EconSky Requirements for a graduate degree in economics at Columbia University in 1934-35. www.irwincollier.com/columbia-req...

#EconSky Last post of 2025 from Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. Some course material for the special topics course offered by the Social Ethics faculty at Harvard in 1909-10. Topics include immigration, labor union strikes, poor relief. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-topi...

#EconSky Like sociology, social policy (called "social ethics") was regularly offered to students of economics at Harvard in the early 20th century. Course description, enrollment and exams for 1909-10 taught by Francis G. Peabody and three young instructors. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-desc...

#EconSky Line by line justification by the economics department chairman for his department's budget for 1944-45. Salaries, ranks and changes recommended plus remarks on the future development of the department. An informationally rich artifact! www.irwincollier.com/chicago-econ...

#EconSky Horror in an economics classroom. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

#EconSky A 15 page program to integrate the sophomore group tutorials with the principles of economics course (Economics 1) at Harvard in 1965-66. Annotated reading lists. Probably authored by Head Tutor Lars Sandberg. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-prog...

#EconSky Before Eckstein, Feldstein, and Mankiw taught Principles of Economics at Harvard, Richard T. Gill was in charge. From 1965-66 the course reading lists and semester exams. Bonus material: link to a recording of Gill as Sparafucile in Rigoletto! www.irwincollier.com/harvard-read...

#EconSky Abram Bergson was 54 years old when he taught comparative economic systems at Harvard (1968). The course reading list and final exam questions have been transcribed. Bon mot of the exam: his name for a theoretical market socialist economy: Shangri-Lange www.irwincollier.com/harvard-read...

#EconSky A printed outline of three public lectures given at Harvard in 1879 by Simon Newcomb on the subject of taxation was rescued from an obscure file of undated economics department files. Frank W. Taussig was a member of the Class of 1879. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-syll...

#EconSky A half-century ago William J. Baumol taught the first semester of the two semester core sequence in microeconomic theory at Princeton. View the course reading list, study questions, midterm and final exam. www.irwincollier.com/princeton-va...

#EconSky Sometimes current events offers a hook for the history of economics. NYC elected a democratic socialist, Zohran Mamdani, to be its mayor in 2025, & at Harvard in 1909-1910, the economics department offered a course on municipal ownership and control. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-fina...

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#EconSky Mid-year and year-end exams for the undergraduate and business courses in economics taught at Johns Hopkins University, 1931-32 www.irwincollier.com/johns-hopkin...

#EconSky The Harvard economics department was nowhere near the frontier of the theory of statistics for most of the first half of the 20th century. A short reading by Prof. William Leonard Crum gives modern readers a taste. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-refl...

#EconSky The third highest enrollment in economics courses in 1909-10 was for a course taught by the Harvard Law School professor Bruce Wyman covering commercial and industrial law. Business content and easy grading ("a snapper problem") the key to his popularity www.irwincollier.com/harvard-fina...

#EconSky Ten page memo written by A.G. Hart of Columbia's economics department in 1973. He complains of a grievous neglect of instruction and research into the institutional nuts-and-bolts, historical trajectories, and granular area studies of economics. www.irwincollier.com/columbia-mem...

#EconSky Ten page reading list for James W. Angell's monetary economics course taught at Columbia University in 1954-55. www.irwincollier.com/columbia-rea...

#EconSky The patent for green eye shades was barely six years old when Harvard students attended the elements of accounting course taught by W. M. Morse in 1909-10. His end of semester exams are now posted at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-exam...

#EconSky Final exam and enrollment for Charles Jesse Bullock's Harvard course on the theory and methods of taxation taught in the Fall term 1909. , www.irwincollier.com/harvard-amer...