Economics in the Rear-View Mirror

A clue that your economic history course description wasn’t written by a.i.: it includes the words “recrudescence of protectionism”. Anyone? Anyone?

Biographical notes for can be found for Edwin F. Gay and Julisus Klein in this

The value-added in this post for Economics in the Rear-view Mirror are the course description, enrollment and final exam for William Z. Ripley’s one semester course at Harvard during the 1911-12 academic year on the economics of transportation. I have copied and pasted some biographical information about Ripley’s T.A. for the course, Arthur Stone Dewing, and appen...

As we move into the second decade of the twentieth century we can see the field structure of the Harvard economics department crystallizing both with respect to the fields and the faculty covering the courses. William Zebina Ripley was responsible for courses in statistics, industrial organization and industrial relations.

Of note is the application of Eng...

Economics professor Thomas Nixon Carver was assisted by Lucius Moody Bristol whose Ph.D. thesis Social Adaptation: A Study in the Development of the Doctrine of Adaptation as a Theory of Social Progress (1913) was awarded the David A. Wells Priz...

Today we begin a march through the economics course offerings at Harvard for the academic year 1911-12 with Frank W. Taussig’s Economics 1, Principles of Economics, an obvious starting point. 

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