Evsey Domar was hired at Johns Hopkins in 1948. This posting provides a convenient list of the greatest (English language) hits in the macroeconomics of fiscal policy at mid-twentieth century.
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Course Announcement
Fiscal Policy 627-628. Associate Professor Domar. Two hours weekly through the year.
Fiscal policy as an instrument of economic stabilization and development. An analysis of its theory and actual applications in recent years.
Prerequisites: Monetary Theory 309-10 and Business Cycles 617-18, or their equivalents.
Source: Announcements of Courses, 1949-50. The Johns Hopkins University Circular, New Series 1949, Number 4 (April 1949), p. 92.
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FISCAL POLICY
Political Economy 627-28
1949-50
It is assumed that the students are already familiar or will familiarize themselves shortly with the following books or their equivalent:
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Author |
Title |
Year |
| American Econ Assn. | Readings in Business Cycle Theory |
1944 |
| Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | The Federal Reserve System. Its Purpose and Functions |
1947 |
| Council of Economic Advisers | The Midyear Economic Report of the President to the Congress, July 11, 1949, together with a report, The Economic Situation at Midyear 1949 |
1949 |
| Haberler, Gottfried | Prosperity and Depression |
1946 |
| Hansen, Alvin H. | Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles |
1941 |
| Hansen, Alvin H. | Monetary Theory and Fiscal Policy |
1949 |
| Keynes, John Maynard | The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money |
1936 |
| Lange, Oscar | Price Flexibility and Employment |
1944 |
| Lerner, Abba P. |
The Economics of Control. Principles of Welfare Economics |
1944 |
| National Planning Assn. | National Budgets for Full Employment |
1945 |
| Ruggles, Richard | An Introduction to National Income and Income Analysis |
1949 |
| Somers, Harold M. | Public Finance and National Income |
1949 |
| Whittlesey, Chas. R. | Principles of Money & Banking |
1948 |
| The following books are recommended: | ||
| Arndt, H. W. | The Economic Lessons of the Nineteen-Thirties |
1944 |
| Beveridge, Wm. H. | Full Employment in a Free Society |
1945 |
| Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | Banking Studies |
1941 |
| Bopp, Karl R. et al | Federal Reserve Policy |
1947 |
| Ellis, Howard S. (ed.) | A Survey of Contemporary Economics |
1948 |
| Fellner, Wm. | Monetary Policies and Full Employment |
1946 |
| Hansen, Alvin H. | Economic Policy and Full Employment |
1947 |
| Hansen, Alvin H. & Perloff, Harvey S. | State and Local Finance in the National Economy |
1944 |
| Harris, Seymour Edwin (ed.) | Economic Reconstruction |
1945 |
| Harris, Seymour Edwin (ed.) | The New Economics. Keynes’ Influence on Theory and Public Policy |
1947 |
| Hart, Albert Gailord | Money, Debt and Economic Activity |
1948 |
| Hawtrey, Ralph George | The Art of Central Banking |
1932 |
| Homan, Paul T. & Machlup, Fritz (ed.) | Financing American Prosperity. A Symposium of Economists |
1945 |
| Keynes, John Maynard | A Treatise on Money |
1930 |
| King, Willford Isbell | The Keys to Prosperity. A Symposium of Economists |
1945 |
| Lerner, Abba P. & Graham, Frank D. (ed.) | Planning and Paying for Full Employment |
1946 |
| Metzler, Lloyd A. et al | Income, Employment and Public Policy. Essays in Honor of Alvin H. Hansen |
1948 |
| Mises, Ludwig von | The Theory of Money and Credit |
1935 |
| Musgrave, Richard A. et al. | Public Finance and Full Employment |
1945 |
| Balogh, T. et al | The Economics of Full Employment |
1944 |
| Rist, Charles | History of Monetary and Credit Theory from John Law to the Present Day |
1940 |
| Robertson, Dennis Holme | Essays in Monetary Theory |
1940 |
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Additions to this list will be made from time to time. |
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Source: Duke University, Rubenstein Library. Economists’ Papers Archive. Evsey D. Domar papers, Box 15, Folder “Macroeconomics: Old Reading Lists.”
Image Source: Joshua Domashevitsky (Evsey D. Domar), University of California at Los Angeles, Bruin Life Yearbook/Southern Campus Yearbook, 1939, p. 52. Caption to graduation picture: “Joshua Domashevitsky, A. B./Economics/ Transferred from State College of Law, Manchuria: Foreign Trade Club; Artus, Chancellor of the Exchequer 4.”