#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...

I am the curator of Economics in the Rear-view Mirror and I approve this message! www.irwincollier.com

#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...

#EconSky The 1981 reading list and final exam for the graduate course on social insurance taught at M.I.T. by Peter Diamond and Lawrence H. Summers (that's right, pre-Epstein Larry). The archival artifacts one finds! www.irwincollier.com/m-i-t-readin...

#EconSky Robert Clower's suggested reading list on the methodology of economics from 1970 Northwestern. www.irwincollier.com/northwestern...

#EconSky Thanks to Zvi Griliches' propensity to hoard and file, we have this copy of another University of Chicago economic theory prelim exam. This one for the Summer quarter of 1956. www.irwincollier.com/chicago-prel...

Economist in the Rear-view Mirror [Larry Summers] is not to be confused with Economics in the Rear-view Mirror [my blog]

#EconSky Reading lists for the overwhelming majority of Harvard economics courses open to both undergraduates and graduate students in 1920-21. Even better, every item has been linked! Economics in the Rear-view Mirror takes you there. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-cour...

#EconSky Memo to the Harvard Dean of Arts and Sciences by Frank W. Taussig in 1925 in support of the fresh PhD meat, Edward S. Mason. Taussig testified that Mason was "a handsome, upstanding chap. His very appearance makes an impression on the young fellows". www.irwincollier.com/harvard-lett...

#EconSky With "creative destruction" back in fashion, Economics in the Rear-view Mirror offers a glance at advanced economic theory taught at Harvard in 1948-49 by Joseph Schumpeter. His course reading lists included nine future Nobel laureates. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-adva...

#EconSky I have found different prelim exams for Economic Theory I for the 1957 winter quarter at the U of Chicago. This is the copy of the exam found in Zvi Griliches' papers. www.irwincollier.com/chicago-econ...

#EconSky In the Spring of 1993 these were the questions from the Harvard General Examination in Macroeconomic Theory. Objects in Rear-view mirror are closer than they appear. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-gene...

#EconSky Harvard even had a course on the history of economics that started with ancient Greece. OK, it was 1909-10 and Charles Bullock knew enough Greek and Latin to have taught the subjects before going to grad school in economics. Cantillon, anyone, anyone? www.irwincollier.com/harvard-hist...

#EconSky Half of Thomas Nixon Carver's final exam on the economics of socialism, communism, and the single tax at Harvard 1909-10 was dedicated to the single-tax reform. Too much of a good thing? www.irwincollier.com/harvard-meth...

#EconSky Shall I be wise and great, or rich and powerful? A question never asked by Thomas Nixon Carver in his Harvard course on the Distribution of Wealth, 1909-10. Round up the usual functional share suspects.... www.irwincollier.com/harvard-dist...

#EconSky Another reminder that European economic history was a core element in the training of early 20th century economists. Consider Howard Levi Gray and Edwin Francis Gay's course offerings for 1909-10 at Harvard... www.irwincollier.com/harvard-euro...

#EconSky In March 1938 four Harvard economics professors signed a petition in support of US non-neutrality with respect to the Spanish Civil War. Plot-spoiler: they were on the anti-fascist side of the matter. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-econ...

#EconSky The economics of corporations was taught by Prof William Z. Ripley at Harvard 1909-10. Course description, report assignment, final exam. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-econ...

#EconSky Applied economics courses in the early 20th century typically were framed as "Problems of ...". William Z. Ripley taught Problems of Labor at Harvard in 1909-10. Course description, enrollment and final exam posted at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-prob...

#EconSky Meet the University of Chicago economics Ph.D. alumnus from 1926, Shirley Jay Coon. Thesis: Economic Development of Missoula, Montana. You read that right. www.irwincollier.com/chicago-econ...

#EconSky The reading list and final exam for Henry Rosovsky and Dwight Perkins' course on the economic development of China and Japan (Harvard, 1966-67) are posted. Bonus material: Rosovsky's contribution to the 2003 Birthday book of Jeffrey Epstein. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-econ...

#EconSky The second semester of the two-term money and banking sequence at Harvard in 1909-10 was taught by asst prof O.W.M. Sprague, back from a guest professorship in Japan. Historical and comparative study of banking systems. Course final exam etc. posted. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-desc...

#EconSky Meet an economics Ph.D. alumnus from the Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government (1925), Dexter Merriam Keezer. Of the institutional school persuasion, President of Reed College, OPA deputy administrator, head of economics at McGraw-Hill. www.irwincollier.com/brookings-ec...

#EconSky William J. Baumol identified five dangers to be avoided by prospective historians of economics in the introductory lecture to his course at Princeton on the history of economic doctrines (rev. Jan 1979). His notes have been transcribed, links added. www.irwincollier.com/princeton-in...

#EconSky The Nov 1961 graduate economic theory exam at Harvard asked the student to answer six of ten questions. Copy transcribed from the Edward Chamberlin papers at the Economists' Papers Archive at Duke University. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-grad...

#EconSky M.I.T. professor Davis Rich Dewey was a visiting lecturer in economics at Harvard in 1909-10. He taught the Money course that year. Course description, enrollment and final exam are posted. His teaching assistant was a Harvard law student. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-cour...

#EconSky Meet Harvard economics PhD. (1907) Charles Phillips Huse who substituted for his thesis advisor in 1909-10 to teach a course on taxation. His professional timeline plus transcribed course description, enrollment and final exam. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-publ...

#EconSky Following the death of Charles F. Dunbar in 1900, Harvard first turned to visiting professors to cover courses in public finance. Meet Henry Bryton Gardner, Johns Hopkins PhD, who founded Brown's economics department. He taught a course in 1902-03. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-enro...

#polsky What rhymes with Walter Ulbricht? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgan...

#EconSky Harvard's core economic history courses in 1909-10 were taught by E.F. Gay and H.L. Gray: Econ 6a, European Economic History and Econ 6b, U.S. Economic History. Course bibliographies, final exams, enrollments, descriptions. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-euro...

#EconSky William Z. Ripley in his day covered many applied economics fields in Harvard's department in the first couple of decades of the 20th century. Materials from his course offered in 1909-10 on transportation are posted at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-econ...

#EconSky Economist William Zebina Ripley taught the Harvard course on statistics for undergrads and graduate students. Course description, enrollment figures, and the final exams (mid-year, year-end) have been posted at Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-exam...

Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...