Economics in the Rear-View Mirror

Overton Hume Taylor (1897-1987) served as the Harvard economics department’s one-man show of PPE interdisciplinarity at both the undergraduate and graduate level for two decades covering the middle of the 20th century. He was a native of Craig, Colorado, received his B.A. at the University of Colorado in 1921 and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1928. He held the rank of instructor ...

This post completes the collection of course descriptions, enrollments, and final exams for Harvard economics courses from the 1912-13 academic year with an advanced course in economic history. The course was attended by four Harvard male graduate students and one Radcliffe woman (presumably also a graduate student) and covered European economic life from mediaev...