First year anniversary of Economics in the Rear-View Mirror

Today marks the first anniversary of Economics in the Rear-View Mirror.  It was conceived as a boutique blog/website that provides transcriptions of material bearing on the education of economists in the United States up to the 1950s. During this first year I have provided postings of some 265 “artifacts” that have attracted over 16,000 page visits between them.

The ten most frequented postings over the year have been the following:

1. Harvard. Econ 113b. Schumpeter’s Grad Course on the History of Economics. 1940.
2. Harvard. Advanced Economic Theory, Schumpeter, 1941-42.
3. Chicago. Undergraduate Macro. Stanley Fischer, 1973.
4. Chicago. Undergraduate grade distribution in economics, 1925-26 and 1926-27.
5. Harvard Economics. Economics 101. Econ Theory. Chamberlin, 1938-9.
6. Chicago Economics. Reading Assignments, Economic Theory (Econ 301). Viner, Fall 1932.
7. MIT. Final Exam in Graduate Macro I. Stanley Fischer, 1975.
8. Harvard. Schumpeter’s Socialism Course. Syllabus and Exam, 1946.
9. Chicago. Economic Theory Exams, A.M. and Ph.D. Summer 1949.
10. Harvard Economics. Hansen and Williams Fiscal Seminar 1937-1944.

There are many other artifacts that have attracted much less attention and I can only encourage visitors to Economics in the Rear-View Mirror to use the search function, check the menu, click on the categories listed at the end of each posting to explore the collection. Here I just provide a small set of unordered links to artifacts that have received less notice but that I think should be of great interest to those with a deep interest in the history of economics.

• Columbia. Friedman Course. Structure Neoclassical Economics 1939-40.
• MIT. Business Cycles Reading List. Samuelson, 1952.
• Laughlin’s List: Recommended Teacher’s Library of Economics, 1887.
• Chicago. Committee on Ph.D. Outlines & Requirements, 1949 (first installment, second installment, third installment).
• Columbia Economics. Historical and Practical Political Economy. Mayo-Smith, early 1890´s.
• Harvard. Money. Economics 8. A. Piatt Andrew, 1901.
• Yale. Graduate Course Keynesian Economics, Tobin. 1951-52.
• Amherst. Honors Section of Introductory Economics. Paul H. Douglas, 1925.
• Sadler’s Syllabus and Course of Readings in Economics, 1891.
• Harvard. Seminary in Economics. Topics and Speakers, 1891/2-1907/8.
• Harvard. International Trade, Finance & Policy. Haberler, 1949-51.

Again I really need to thank the Institute for New Economic Thinking for having provided me a grant to collect much of these materials. Also I have received much encouragement from numerous colleagues across our fair planet and I look forward to feedback from page visitors, regular and irregular.