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This post covers all of the courses taught at Harvard during the academic year 1910-11 from the subfield of social ethics that was located at the intersection of economics, philosophy, and social policy.
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Social Ethics à la PeabodyA short
In 1891 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth was appointed Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford. In the following essay written by the philosopher David George Ritchie we have a snapshot of how instruction in political and social science (where political economy was to be found) was organized at Oxford towards the end of the 19th century.
The course content is at the intersection of the economics department and the business school.
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Course Announcement and Description[Economics] 30 1hf. Problems in Railroad and Corporation Finance. Half-course <...
In 1911 Harvard economics professor Thomas Nixon Carver published a textbook Principles of Rural Economics that undoubtedly encompassed the content of his course on agricutural economics first taught in 1903-04. Somewhat unus...
This post provides a snapshot of Harvard graduate (A.B./A.M., 1892) Arthur Morgan Day who briefly held junior instructional ranks at Harvard, Columbia and Barnard Colleges. From his March 1942 obituary we learn that he left economics teaching to enter the world of finance in 1900.
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