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Harvard. Economic Analysis and Public Policy, Readings and Exams. Baldwin, 1955-56

 

While Harvard archive’s collection of old course syllabi and reading lists offers a treasure chest of material, there still are plenty of “missing observations” and lost pages between us and a complete record. Fortunately there is often significant inertia in the actual syllabi so that interpolation is less hazardous than one might expect in filling the gaps. The next several posts will be dedicated to the graduate course taught for graduate students of economics and of public administration “Economic Analysis and Public Policy”. Robert Baldwin’s spring term syllabus for 1955-56 gives us a valuable clue as to the likely content of a missing page in the syllabus for the course as taught in 1956-57.

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Arthur Smithies’ syllabus for this course as taught in 1949-50 has been transcribed and posted.

Biographical information along with the reading list for Robert Baldwin’s course “Theories and Problems of Economic Development” taught in 1955 have been posted earlier.

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Course Enrollment

[Economics] 206 Economic Analysis and Public Policy. Assistant Professor Baldwin. Full course.

(F) Total 36: 10 Graduates, 22 Other Graduates, 2 Seniors, 1 Radcliffe, 1 Other.

(S) Total 34: 10 Graduates, 21 Other Graduates, 2 Seniors, 1 Other.

Source: Harvard University. Report of the President of Harvard College, 1955-56, p. 78.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics

Economics 206
[Baldwin, Fall Term, 1955-56]

Baumol, W. J., Economic Dynamics, Chapters 2, 3, and 4.

Bober, M. M., Karl Marx’s Interpretation of History.

Cassel, Gustav, The Theory of Social Economy, Chapter 4.

Domar, E., “Expansion and Employment,” American Economic Review, March 1947.

Dillard, Dudley, The Economics of J. M. Keynes.

Gray, Alexander, The Development of Economic Doctrine, Chapters 5, 6, 11.

Hansen, A. H., Business Cycles and National Income, Parts II and III.

Hansen, A. H., A Guide to Keynes.

Harris, S. E. The New Economics, Chapters 12, 13, 14, 16, 39.

Harris, S. E., Schumpeter, Social Scientist.

Harrod, Roy, The Life of J. M. Keynes.

Heilbroner, R. L., The Worldly Philosophers.

Jevons, W. Stanley, The Theory of Political Economy, Introduction.

Keynes, J. M., The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Klein, L. R., The Keynesian Revolution, Chapters 3 and 4.

Malthus, T. R., Essay on Population.

Marshall, A., Principles of Economics, Book V.

Marx, Karl, Communist Manifesto.

Mill, J. S., Principles of Political Economy, Book 4, Chapters 1-4.

Ricardo, David, Principles of Political Economy, Chapters 1-6, 21.

Ricardo, David, Notes on Malthus, Chapter 7.

Robinson, Joan, Essay on Marxian Economics.

Schumpeter, J. A., The Theory of Economic Development.

Schumpeter, J.A., Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.

Schumpeter, J. A., Ten Great Economists, Chapters 1, 4, 10.

Schumpeter, J. A., History of Economic Analysis.

Smith, Adam, The Wealth of Nations, Bk. I, Chs. 1-9; bk. II, Ch. 3; Bk. IV, Ch. 2.

Smithies, Arthur, “Reflections on the Work and Influence of J.M. Keynes,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1951.

Smithies, Arthur, “Joseph Alois Schumpeter,” American Economic Review, Sept. 1950.

Stephen, Leslie, The English Utilitarians, Volume 2, Chapter 5.

Sweezy, Paul, The Theory of Capitalist Development, Chapters 4, 5, 6, 8, 9.

Walras, L.,  Elements of Pure Economics, Part I.

Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003. Box 6, Folder: “Economics, 1955-1956 (2 of 2).

Reading Period Assignment:

No additional assignment

Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003. Box 6, Folder: “Economics, 1955-1956 (1 of 2).

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1955-56
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Economics 206
Mid-year Examination
January, 1956

(Three Hours)

Answer four (4) of the following six questions.

  1. Some economists have advocated a flexible money wage rate policy to ensure full employment. Discuss and contrast the effects of a cut in money wage rates on aggregate employment in the Keynesian and in the Classical (or neo-Classical) systems.
  2. Both Marx and Schumpeter believe that capitalism is doomed, but their reasons for this conclusion are quite different. Explain and criticize the analysis of each in regard to this point.
  3. According to Keynes, the habit of thrift may be a vice instead of a virtue. In Classical and neo-Classical thought, however, thrift is invariably regarded as a virtue. Explain the reasons for this difference in viewpoint.
  4. Discuss and appraise the analyses of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx concerning their view that the long-run rate of profit will decline.
  5. What is wrong with the labor theory of value as an explanation of how relative prices are determined? How did the neo-Classical theorists solve the problem of how relative prices are determined?
  6. In the Ricardian and Marxian theories of growth, labor fails to share in the fruits of long-run progress (in the sense of receiving a higher per capita income). However, according to Schumpeter and the neo-Classsical writers, this is not a necessary (and, indeed, is an unlikely) result. Why do these writers disagree on this matter?

Source: Harvard University Archives. Final examinations, 1853-2001. Box 23, Volume: Papers Printed for Final Examinations [in] History, History of Religions, …, Economics, …, Naval Science, Air Science, January 1956.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics

Economics 206
[Baldwin, Spring Term, 1955-56]

Part I (cont.) The Post-Keynesian Growth Theorists

Readings:

Domar, “Expansion and Employment,” A.E.R., March 1947.

Baumol, Economic Dynamics, Ch. 4

Part II. The Changing Structure of the U.S. Economy

  1. “Real” Factors
  2. Institutional Conditions

Readings:

Dewhurst and Associates, America’s Needs and Resources, A New Survey, Chs. 4, 18, 28.

Galbraith, American Capitalism, Chs. 1, 4-10.

Kaysen, “Looking Around—Books About Competition,” Harvard Business Review, May-June, 1954.

Lilienthal, Big Business: A New Era

Slichter, The American Economy, Ch. 2.

Part III. Public Policy and Economic Goals

  1. Full Employment
  2. Price Stability
  3. Equitable Income Distribution
  4. Efficient Resource Allocation
  5. Economic Growth
  6. International Equilibrium

Readings:

A.E.A. Committee, “The Problem of Economic Instability,” American Economic Review, Sept., 1950.

Economic Report of the President, January 1956.

Elliot, The Political Economy of American Foreign Policy, Part II.

Galbraith, “Farm Policy: The Current Position,” Journal of Farm Economics, May, 1955.

Hansen, Business Cycles and National Income, Part III.

Hearings before the Joint Committee, January 1955 Economic Report of the President, Statements by Professors Hansen (p. 491) and Harris (p. 291).

Knight, “Economic Objectives in a Changing World,” in Economics and Public Policy, Brookings Institution

McDonald, “The Sherman Act and ‘Workable Competition’,” No. 28 in Readings in Economics, Samuelson, Bishop, and Coleman.

Mason, “Prices, Costs, and Profits,” in Money, Trade, and Economic Growth: Essays in Honor of J.H. Williams.

Maxwell, Fiscal Policy

Report of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, Foreign Economic Policy, January, 1956.

Smithies, “Economic Welfare and Economic Policy,” in Economics and Public Policy.

Smithies, “Full Employment at Whatever Cost: A Comment,” Q.J.E., November, 1950.

Subcommittee on Monetary, Credit, and Fiscal Policies of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, Money, Credit, and Fiscal Policies, No. 2 in Gramp and Weiler, Readings in Political Economy.

United Nations, National and International Measures for Full Employment.

Viner, “Full Employment at Whatever Cost,” Q.J.E., August, 1950.

Wright, The Impact of the Union, Ch. 8, 10.

Source: Harvard University Archives. Syllabi, course outlines and reading lists in Economics, 1895-2003. Box 6, Folder: “Economics, 1955-1956 (2 of 2).

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics

Economics 206
Final Examination
June, 1956

Answer four (4) of the following seven questions:

  1. What are the major problems facing American agriculture? Analyze the economic forces behind these problems, and suggest the kind of policies you would favor in order to mitigate the difficulties.
  2. “The strained relations between the Federal Reserve and Treasury since the end of World War II clearly indicate the undesirability of the existence of a semi-autonomous monetary authority in this country.” Discuss.
  3. Domar’s condition for the maintenance of continuous full employment is not unlike the Queen’s observation in Through the Looking Glass; “A slow sort of country. Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.”
    Explain and evaluate the requirements for full employment in Domar’s model.
  4. “The traditional view of anti-trust policy is based on a static conception of economic activity. What is needed is a revision of anti-trust policy which recognizes the dynamic nature of the American economy.” Discuss.
  5. Carefully explain and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of monetary policy versus fiscal policy as counter-cyclical weapons.
  6. Discuss the causes and attempted cures of the post-war dollar shortage.
  7. “The economist must attempt to formulate a compromise among various, and possibly conflicting, economic objectives. He must attempt to discuss the economic objectives of society, to remove contradictions among them, and to harmonize economic objectives with those that lie outside the economic field.” Do you agree? What are some of the possible conflicts among various economic objectives? Are there any policy changes which you would recommend “to remove contradictions” among various economic objectives?

Source: Harvard University Archives. Final examinations, 1853-2001. Box 24, Volume: Papers Printed for Final Examinations [in] History, History of Religions, …, Economics, …, Naval Science, Air Science, June 1956.

Image Source: Selection from photograph (ca. 1975) of Robert E. Baldwin from the University of Wisconsin Archives/The University of Wisconsin Collection/The UW-Madison Collection/UW-Madison Archives Images.

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Harvard. Exams for Economic Analysis and Public Policy. Smithies, 1949-1950

Arthur Smithies’ 1949-50 graduate course “Economic Analysis and Public Policy” was the subject of an earlier post. There I transcribed the course syllabus, provided enrollment figures, and added the Harvard Crimson’s 1981 obituary for him.

Several years after that post, I was able to copy the course examinations during a research visit to the Harvard University archives. Transcriptions of those exams are included below.

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1949-50
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

ECONOMICS 206
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND PUBLIC POLICY
[Mid-year Examination, January 1950]

(Three Hours)

Answer all questions.

  1. Characterize various types of economic organization according to the degree of central planning and control and the methods by which control is exercised.
  2. Discuss the wage-price question that seems to confront most private enterprise economies. Is a wage-price spiral inherent in a full employment economy? Could it be eliminated by allowing a sufficiently large pool of unemployment? Are compulsory and widespread wage and price controls consistent with democratic government?
  3. Compare the relative merits of a free price system and a controlled price system from the point of view of optimum allocation of resources and optimum rate of economic progress. What, if anything, is meant by these terms?
  4. Define the multiplier with numerical illustrations.
  5. From your reading of the Reports of the Council of Economic Advisers, what do you conclude about the type of stabilization policy they favor?

Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University Final Examinations, 1853-2001. Box 27. Papers Printed for Final Examinations [in] History, History of Religions, …, Economics, …, Military Science, Naval Science, February 1950.

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1949-50
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

ECONOMICS 206
[Final Examination, June 1950]

  1. Discuss Schumpeter’s concept of the entrepreneur and innovation from the point of view of its value (a) in explaining capitalistic development in the past, (b) in explaining the present in the U.S.
  2. Discuss “functional finance” from the point of view of its feasibility and desirability as a guide to policy in the U.S. How do you think Marshall, Schumpeter, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Anti-Trust Division would react to Lerner’s ideas?
  3. Is there a monopoly problem in the U.S.? If so, what ought to be done about it?
  4. The statement was made in class that the more we know about the operation of the economy the more difficult it becomes to operate it. How much nonsense and how much truth is there to this statement?

Source: Harvard University Archives. Harvard University Final Examinations, 1853-2001. Box 27. Papers Printed for Final Examinations [in] History, History of Religions, …, Economics, …, Military Science, Naval Science, June 1950.

Image Source: Arthur Smithies, Harvard Album 1952.

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M.I.T. Washington Post op-ed by Samuelson on Sound Debt Policy, 1963

 

Source: Paul A. Samuelson, “We can have sound debt policy” from the Washington Post, included with Extention of remarks of Hon. Jeffery Cohelan of California in the House of Representatives, Friday, May 31, 1963 in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates. Volume 109, part 25—Appendix, May 31, 1963, p. A3510

Also found as a mimeographed copy in Harvard University Archives. Papers of Alvin Harvey Hansen, Box 1, Folder “Business Cycles.”

Image Source:  Samuelson Memorial Information Page/Photos from Memorial Service.  Accessed via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

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Chicago. Laughlin’s anti-bank-deposit-insurance talk, 1908

 

There are two things that I have not been able to figure out about the following report of a talk given by the founding head of the University of Chicago’s Department of Political Economy, J. Laurence Laughlin, against the bank-deposit guarantees promised in the 1908 Democratic Party Platform: (1) what was the point of his joke about the black man and the razor and (2) does “Shivers” refer to a person’s name or does it refer to the physical “shivers” of nervous bank depositors? William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate in the Presidential election of 1908, is clearly Laughlin’s target.

Image Source: From the election of 1908.  Davenport, Homer, 1867-1912, “William Jennings Bryan, bank deposits, political cartoon,” Nebraska U, accessed December 16, 2019.

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Shivers Bryan Bank Plank
Chicago University Financial Expert Declares It Chimerical.
Points Out Its Injustice

Guaranty of Deposits Is Described as a Socialistic Scheme.

Prof. J. Laurence Laughlin, head of the department of political economy of the University of Chicago, who is a national authority on monetary matters, took another hard rap yesterday at the democratic plank for the guaranty of bank deposits.

In concluding his statements, which were made in Cobb hall at the university, the economist declared his opinion about the democratic plank was epitomized by the story of a negro who went into a shop to buy a razor.

“The negro,” said Prof. Laughlin, “was asked if he wished a common razor or a safety razor. “

‘No, sah,’ returned the negro, ‘I just want one for social purposes.’ There you have the bank deposits guaranty idea.

“No one,” continued the speaker, “is so senseless to promote an immediate fund to secure all deposits. It is purely chimerical. Immediate redemption in cash is impossible, especially in any serious crisis since there is no ready money.

Would Work in Insane Asylum.

“The 1907 panic would have spread far and wide if this guaranty of deposits had been in effect then. This guaranty would have been a mere bagatelle. The proposal shows mere ignorance in asking absolute security—just as if any one in this world could give absolute security.

“It is just as well to ask a clergyman on becoming a pastor of a church to guarantee that every member of his flock will not tell a lie, be guilty of any misconduct or go to everlasting damnation,

“It is like A robbing B and going up on the hill to rob C so that B could be reimbursed. In this way C would have to pay for all the deviltry in town. Yes; the bank deposits guaranty would work perfectly-in an insane asylum.

Safety in Bank’s Integrity.

“Do these advocates really know what they are talking about? Good banks can’t prevent bad banks from making poor loans. They can’t stop the initial loans. Why, it would be worse than a disease.”

 

Source: Chicago Tribune, 7 October 1908, p. 5.

Image Source:  Caricature of J. Laurence Laughlin in the University of Chicago yearbook, Cap and Gown, 1907.

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Wisconsin. Richard Ely, series editor of Social Science Textbooks for Macmillan

 

Following his series Citizen’s Library of Economics, Political Science and Sociology, Richard Ely of the University of Wisconsin then served as general editor for the series of social science textbooks published by Macmillan into the 1930s. I have been able to provide links to all but two of the titles (and the 1937 edition of Ely’s own economics textbook).

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SOCIAL SCIENCE TEXT-BOOKS
Edited by Richard T. Ely
New York: Macmillan

OUTLINES OF ECONOMICS [Third revised edition, 1916]
By Richard T. Ely, Ph.D., LL.D. Revised and enlarged by the Author and Thomas S. Adams, Ph.D., Max O. Lorenz, Ph.D., Allyn A. Young, Ph.D.

OUTLINES OF ECONOMICS [Sixth edition, 1937]
By Richard T. Ely and Ralph H. Hess

OUTLINES OF SOCIOLOGY [1919]
By Frank W. Blackmar, Ph.D., and John Lewis Gillin, Ph.D.

THE NEW AMERICAN GOVERNMENT [1915]
By James T. Young, Ph.D.

SOCIAL PROBLEMS [1917]
By Ezra T. Towne, Ph.D.

PROBLEMS OF CHILD WELFARE [1919]
By George B. Mangold, Ph.D.

COMPARATIVE FREE GOVERNMENT [1915]
By Jesse Macy, LL.D., and John W. Gannaway, M.A.

AMERICAN MUNICIPAL PROGRESS [New and revised edition, 1916]
By Charles Zueblin.

BUSINESS ORGANIZATION AND COMBINATION [1913]
By Lewis H. Haney, Ph.D.

HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT (Revised Edition) [1922]
By Lewis H. Haney, Ph.D.

APPLIED EUGENICS [1922]
By Paul Popenoe and Roswell H. Johnson, M.S.

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS [1920]
By Henry C. Taylor, M.S. Agr., Ph.D.

THE LABOR MARKET [1919]
By Don D. Lescohier.

EFFICIENT MARKETING FOR AGRICULTURE [1921]
By Theodore Macklin, Ph.D.

A HISTORY OF TRADE UNIONISM IN THE UNITED STATES [1922]
By Selig Perlman, Ph.D.

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL POLICIES [1923]
By George M. Fisk, Ph.D., and Paul S. Peirce, Ph.D.

WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION [1924]
By E. H. Downey

INTRODUCTION TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS [1927]
By Lewis Cecil Gray, Ph.D.

GENERAL SOCIAL SCIENCE [1926]
By Ross L. Finney, Ph.D.

OUTLINES OF PUBLIC UTILITY ECONOMICS [1927]
By Martin C. Glaeser, Ph.D.

MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF PUBLIC UTILITY ECONOMICS [1930]
By Herbert B. Dorau

AN OUTLINE OF ADVERTISING [1933]
By G. B. Hotchkiss, M.A.

 

Image: From the portrait of Richard Theodore Ely painted during the summer of 1923. Wisconsin Historical Society.

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Policy Debates. 109 book titles and links from the “Questions of the Day” series 1880-1910

 

The line between economics as a science and economics as a policy art is extremely fuzzy. Once we venture anywhere near popular economics or economic policy debates, we find ourselves confronting the complaint of  the great comedian, Jimmy Durante, “Everybody wants to get into the act.”  I saw that a few of the books on tariff policy by Harvard economist, Frank W. Taussig, were published in the P. Putnam’s Sons series “Questions of the Day” and was curious what other books were published in that series. 

Below I provide links to about one hundred titles published between 1880 and 1910 in the series “Questions of the Day”.

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QUESTIONS OF THE DAY.
P. PUTNAM’S SONS, Publishers, New York and London.

1 — The Independent Movement in New York, as an Element in the next Elections and a Problem in Party Government. By Junius [Eaton, Dorman Bridgman]. 1880. https://archive.org/details/independentmovem00eatouoft

2 — Free Land and Free Trade. The Lessons of the English Corn-Laws Applied to the United States. By Samuel S. Cox. 1880. https://archive.org/details/freelandandfree00coxgoog

3 — Our Merchant Marine. How it rose, increased, became great, declined, and decayed; with an inquiry into the conditions essential to its resuscitation and prosperity. By David A. Wells. 1890. https://archive.org/details/ourmerchantmari00unkngoog

4 — The Elective Franchise in the United States; A Review of the Effects of the Caucus System upon the Civil Service and upon the Principles and Policies of Political Parties. By Duncan Cameron McMillan. 1880. https://archive.org/details/electivefranchi00mcmi

5 — The American Citizen’s Manual Part I. Edited by Worthington C. Ford. — Governments (National, State, and Local), the Electorate, and the Civil Service. 1882. https://archive.org/details/americancitizens01ford

6 — The American Citizen’s Manual. Part II. — The Functions of Government, considered with special reference to taxation and expenditure, the regulation of commerce and industry, provision for the poor and insane, the management of the public lands, etc. 1883. https://archive.org/details/americancitizen00fordgoog [1887 two parts in one: https://archive.org/details/americancitizens00ford]

7 — Spoiling the Egyptians. A Tale of Shame. Told from the British Blue-Books. By J. Seymour Keay. [Original, 1882]. https://archive.org/details/spoilingegyptia00keaygoog]

8 — The Taxation of the Elevated Railroads in the City of New York. By Roger Foster.

9 — The Destructive Influence of the Tariff upon Manufacture and Commerce, and the Facts and Figures Relating Thereto (Second Edition) By J. Schoenhof. https://archive.org/details/destructiveinflu00schouoft

10 — Of Work and Wealth. A Summary of Economics. By R. R. Bowker. 1883. https://archive.org/details/ofworkwealthsumm00bowk

11 — Protection to Young Industries as Applied in the United States. A Study in Economic History. By F. W. Taussig. 1884. https://archive.org/details/cu31924026430995

12 — Terminal Facilities. By W. N. Black.

13 — Public Relief and Private Charity. By Josephine Shaw Lowell. 1884. https://archive.org/details/publicreliefpriv00loweuoft

14 — “The Jukes.” A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease, and Heredity (Fourth Edition). By R. L. Dugdale. 1888. https://archive.org/details/thejukesstudyin00dugd

15 — Protection and Communism; A Consideration of the Effects of the American Tariff upon Wages. By William Rathbone. 1884. https://archive.org/details/protectioncommun00rath

16 — The True Issue; Industrial Depression and Political Corruption Caused by Tariff Monopolies; Reform Demanded in the Interest of Manufacturers, Farmers and Workingmen. By E. J. Donnell. 1884. https://archive.org/details/cu31924013819853

17 — Heavy Ordnance for National Defence. By Wm. H. Jaques, Lieut. U. S. Navy. 1885. https://archive.org/details/heavyordnancefor00jaquuoft

18 — The Spanish Treaty Opposed to Tariff Reform. By D. H. Chamberlain, Jno. Dewitt Warner, Graham McAdam, and J. Schoenhof. 1885. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnf2jn

19 — The History of the Present Tariff, 1860-1883. By Frank W. Taussig. 1885. https://archive.org/details/historyofpresent00tausrich

20 — The Progress of the Working Classes in the Last Half Century. By Robert Giffen. 1884. https://archive.org/details/theprogressofwor00giff

21 — A Solution of the Mormon Problem. By Capt. John Codman. 1885.

22 — Defective and Corrupt Legislation; the Cause and the Remedy. By Simon Sterne. 1885. https://archive.org/details/defectiveandcor00stergoog

23 — Social Economy. By J. E. Thorold Rogers. 1885. https://archive.org/details/socialeconomy01roge

24 — The History of the Surplus Revenue of 1837 being an Account of its Origin, its Distribution among the States, and the Uses to which it was Applied. By Edward G. Bourne. 1885. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032544755

25 — The American Caucus System; Its Origin, Purpose and Utility. By George W. Lawton. 1885. https://archive.org/details/americancaucussy00lawtuoft

26 — The Science of Business; A Study of the Principles Controlling the Laws of Exchange. By Roderick H. Smith. 1885. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030151660

27 — The Evolution of Revelation; A Critique of Opinions concerning the Old Testament. By James Morris Whiton, Ph.D. 1885.

28 — The Postulates of English Political Economy. By Walter Bagehot. 1885. https://archive.org/details/postulatesofeng00bage

29 — Lincoln and Stanton. By Hon. W. D. Keeley. 1885. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032776829

30 — The Industrial Situation and the Question of Wages; A Study in Social Physiology. By J. Schoenhof. 1885. https://archive.org/details/industrialsituat01scho

31 — Ericsson’s Destroyer and Submarine Gun. By Wm. H. Jaques, Lieut. U. S. Navy. 1885. https://archive.org/details/ericssonsdestro00jaqugoog

32 — Modern Armor for National Defence. By Wm. H. Jaques, Lieut. U. S. Navy. 1886. https://archive.org/details/modernarmorforn00jaqugoog

33 — The Physics and Metaphysics of Money; A Sketch of Events Relating to Money in the Early History of California. By Rodmond Gibbons. 1886. https://archive.org/details/physicsmetaphys00gibb

34 — Torpedoes for National Defence. By Wm. H. Jaques, Lieut. U. S. Navy.

35 — Unwise Laws; A Consideration of the Operations of a Protective Tariff Upon Industry, Commerce, and Society. By Lewis H. Blair. 1886. https://archive.org/details/unwiselawsconsid00blaiuoft

36 — Railway Practice; Its Principles and Suggested Reforms Reviewed. By E. Porter Alexander. 1887. https://archive.org/details/cu31924017148853

37 — American State Constitutions: A Study of their Growth. By Henry Hitchcock, LL.D. 1887. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030487932

38 — The Inter-State Commerce Act: An Analysis of Its Provisions. By John R. Dos Passos. 1887. https://archive.org/details/cu31924020340232

39 — Federal Taxation and State Expenses; or, The Public Good, as Distinct from the General Welfare of the United States (Second edition, revised). By William Hiter Jones. 1890. https://archive.org/details/federaltaxesstat00jonerich [First Edition, 1887. https://archive.org/details/federaltaxesstat00joneuoft]

40 — The Margin of Profits: How It is now Divided; What Part of the Present Hours of Labor can Now be Spared. By Edward Atkinson. 1887. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030078269

41 — The Fishery Question; Its Origin, History and Present Situation. By Charles Isham. 1887. https://archive.org/details/fisheryquestioni00ishauoft

42 — Bodyke: A Chapter in the History of Irish Landlordism. By Henry Norman. 1887. https://archive.org/details/bodykechapterinh00normuoft

43 — Slav or Saxon: A Study of the Growth and Tendencies of Russian Civilization (Second edition, revised). By William Dudley Foulke, A.M. 1899. https://archive.org/details/slavorsaxonstudy02foul

44 — The Present Condition of Economic Science, and the Demand for a Radical Change in Its Methods and Aims. By Edward Clark Lunt. 1888. https://archive.org/details/presentcondition00lunt

45 — The Old South and The New; A Series of Letters. By Hon. W. D. Kelley. 1888. https://archive.org/details/oldsouthnewserie00kell

46 — Property in Land. An essay on the New Crusade. By Henry Winn. 1888. https://archive.org/details/propertyinlandes00winnuoft

47 — The Tariff History of the United States. By Frank W. Taussig. 1888. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030184836

4th edition 1899: https://archive.org/details/tariffhistoryofu00taus
5th edition 1910: https://archive.org/details/cu31924032519336
6th edition 1914: https://archive.org/details/tariffhistoryofu00tausrich
8th edition 1931: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.46434

48 — The President’s Message, 1887. With Illustrations by Thomas Nast and Annotations by R. R. Bowker. 1888. https://archive.org/details/messagpresidents00unitrich

49 — Essays on Practical Politics. By Theodore Roosevelt. 1888. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032462487

50 — The Champion Tariff Swindle of the World; Friendly Letters to American Farmers and Others. By J. S. Moore. 1888. https://archive.org/details/friendlyletterst00moor

51 — American Prisons in the Tenth United States Census. By Frederick Howard Wines. 1888. https://archive.org/details/americanprisonsi00wineuoft

52 — Tariff Chats. By Henry J. Philpott. 1888. https://archive.org/details/tariffchats00philrich

53 — The Tariff and its Evils; or, Protection which does not Protect. By John H. Allen. 1888. https://archive.org/details/tariffitsevilsor00alleuoft

54 — Relation of the Tariff to Wages. By David A. Wells. 1888. https://archive.org/details/relationoftariff00well

55 — True or False Finance. The Issue of 1888. By A Tax-payer. 1888 https://archive.org/details/cu31924031232725

56 — Outlines of a New Science. By E. J. Donnell. 1889. https://archive.org/details/outlinesofnewsc00donn

57 — The Plantation Negro as a Freeman. By Philip A. Bruce. 1889. https://archive.org/details/plantationnegroa00bruc

58 — Politics as a Duty and as a Career. By Moorfield Storey. 1889. https://archive.org/details/politicsasdutyas00stor

59 — Monopolies and the People. By Charles Whiting Baker. 1890. https://archive.org/details/monopoliespeople00bakeuoft

60 — Public Regulation of Railways. By W. D. Dabney. 1889. https://archive.org/details/cu31924070674100

61 — Railway Secrecy and Trusts; Its Relation to Interstate Legislation. An Analysis of the Chief Evils of Railway Management in the United States, and Influence of Existing Legislation upon these Evils, and Suggestions for their Reform. By John M. Bonham, author of “Industrial Liberty.” 1890. https://archive.org/details/cu31924017064886

62 — American Farms: Their Condition and Future. By J. R. Elliott. 1890. https://archive.org/details/cu31924013992536

63 — Want and Wealth. A Discussion of Certain Economic Dangers of the Day. An Essay. By Edward J. Shriver, Secretary N. Y. Metal Exchange. 1890. https://archive.org/details/wantwealthdiscu00shri

64 — The Question of Ships. Comprising I. The Decay of Our Ocean Mercantile Marine; Its Cause and its Cure. By David A. Wells; and II. Shipping Subsidies and Bounties. By Captain John Codman. 1890. https://archive.org/details/questionofshipsi00wellrich

65 — A Tariff Primer. The Effects of Protection upon the Farmer and Laborer. By Hon. Porter Sherman, M.A. 1891. https://archive.org/details/atariffprimeref00shergoog

66 — The Death Penalty. A Consideration of the Objections to Capital Punishment; with a Chapter on War. By Andrew J. Palm

67 — The Question of Copyright; A Summary of the Copyright Laws at Present in Force in the Chief Countries of the World. Edited by G. H. Putnam. 1891. https://archive.org/details/cu31924022607455

68 — Parties and Patronage in the United States. By Lyon Gardiner Tyler, President William and Mary College. 1891. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030471423

69 — Money, Silver and Finance. By J. H. Cowperthwait. 1892. https://archive.org/details/cu31924013984947

70 — The Question of Silver; Comprising a Brief Summary of Legislation in the United States, Together with a Practical Analysis of the Present Situation, and of the Arguments of the Advocates of Unlimited Silver Coinage. By Louis R. Ehrich. 1892. https://archive.org/details/questionofsilver00ehri

71 — Who Pays Your Taxes? By David A. Wells, Thomas G. Sherman, and others. Edited by Bolton Hall. 1892. https://archive.org/details/whopaysyourtaxes00hall

72 — The Farmers’ Tariff Manual by a Farmer. By Daniel Strange. 1892. https://archive.org/details/farmerstariffman00stra

73 — The Economy of High Wages. By J. Schoenhof, author of “The Industrial Situation,” etc., etc. 1893. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032403564

74 — The Silver Situation in the United States. By Prof. F. W. Taussig. 2nd edition 1896:

https://archive.org/details/silversituationi00taus ; (3rd edition, 1898). By Frank W. Taussig https://archive.org/details/cu31924030194207 ; Originally AEA publication Vol. VII, No. 1 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044081946527

75 — A Brief History of Panics, and their Periodical Occurrence in the United States. By Clement Juglar. Translated by DeCourcey W. Thom. 1893. https://archive.org/details/abriefhistorypa00juglgoog

76 — Industrial Arbitration and Conciliation. By Josephine Shaw Lowell. 1894. https://archive.org/details/industrialarbitr00loweuoft

77 — Primary Elections. A Study of Methods for Improving the Basis of Party Organization (Second edition). By Daniel S. Remsen. 1895. https://archive.org/details/primaryelection00remsgoog

78 — Canadian Independence, Annexation and British Imperial Federation. By James Douglas. 1894. https://archive.org/details/canadianindepend00douguoft

79 — Joint-Metallism; A Plan by which Gold and Silver Together, at Ratios Always Based on their Relative Market Values, May Be Made the Metallic Basis of a Sound, Honest, Self-Regulating, and Permanent Currency, Without Frequent Recoinings, and without Danger of One Metal Driving Out the Other. By Anson Phelps Stokes; 5th edition. 1896. https://archive.org/details/cu31924031493376

80 — “Common Sense” Applied to Woman Suffrage. By Mary Putnam-Jacobi, M.D. 1894. https://archive.org/details/commonsenseappl00jacogoog

81 — The Problem of Police Legislation; A Consideration of the Best Means of Dealing with It. By Dorman B. Eaton. 1895. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89101022507

82 — A Sound Currency and Banking System. How it may be Secured. By Allen Ripley Foote. 1895. https://archive.org/details/asoundcurrencya00riplgoog

83 — Natural Taxation; An Inquiry into the Practicability, Justice and Effects of a Scientific and Natural Method of Taxation. By Thomas G. Shearman. 1895. https://archive.org/details/cu31924030263903

84 — Real Bi-Metallism; or True Coin versus False Coin; A Lesson for “Coin’s Financial School”. By Everett P. Wheeler.1895. https://archive.org/details/realbimetallism00wheegoog

85 — Congressional Currency; An Outline of the Federal Money System. By Armistead C. Gordon. 1895. https://archive.org/details/congressionalcu00gordgoog

86 — A History of Money and Prices. By J. Schoenhof, author of “Economy of High Wages,” etc. 1896. https://archive.org/details/historyofmoneypr00schoiala

87 — America and Europe; A Study of International Relations. I. The United States and Great Britain by David A. Wells; II. The Monroe Doctrine by Edward J. Phelps; and III. Arbitration in International Disputes by Carl Schurz. 1896. https://archive.org/details/cu31924007480894

88 — The War of the Standards; Coin and Credit versus Coin without Credit. By Judge Albion W. Tourgée. 1896. https://archive.org/details/warofstandardsco00tourrich

89 — A General Freight and Passenger Post. By James L. Cowles. Third edition. 1902. https://archive.org/details/generalfreightpa00cowlrich

90 — Municipal Reform. By Thomas C. Devlin. 1896. https://archive.org/details/municipalreform01devlgoog

91 — Monetary Problems and Reform. By Charles H. Swan, Jr. 1897. https://archive.org/details/monetaryproblems00swan

92 — The Proposed Anglo-American Alliance. By Charles Alexander Gardiner. 1898.

93 — Our Right to Acquire and Hold Foreign Territory. By Charles A. Gardiner. 1899. https://archive.org/details/ourrighttoacqui00gardgoog

94 — The Wheat Problem; Based on Remarks Made in the Presidential Address to the British Association at Bristol in 1898; Revised, with an Answer to Various Critics. By Sir William Crookes. 1900. https://archive.org/details/wheatproblembas00davigoog

95 — The Regeneration of the United States; A Forecast of its Industrial Evolution. By William Morton Grinnell. 1899. https://archive.org/details/regenerationuni00gringoog

96 — Railway Control by Commissions. By Frank Hendrick. 1900. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032483277

97 — Commercial Trusts; The Growth and Rights of Aggregated Capital. An Argument Delivered Before the Industrial Commission at Washington, D.C. December 12, 1899, Corrected and Revised. By John R. Dos Passos. 1901. https://archive.org/details/cu31924020755231

98 — Labor and Capital; A Discussion of the Relations of Employer and Employed. Edited by John P. Peters. 1902. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032467098

99 — The Social Evil [i.e., prostitution] with Special Reference to Conditions Existing in the City of New York. A Report Prepared under the Direction of the Committee of Fifteen. 1902. https://archive.org/details/socialevil01newy

100 — German Ambitions as They Affect Britain and the United States. By “Vigilans sed AEquus.” (reprinted 1908). https://archive.org/details/germanambitionsa00vigiuoft

101 — Industrial Conciliation; Report of the Proceedings of the Conference held under the Auspices of the National Civic Federation in New York, December 16 and 17, 1901. Published 1902. https://archive.org/details/industrialconcil00natirich

102 — Political Parties and Party Policies in Germany. By James H. Gore. 1903. https://archive.org/details/cu31924031439387

103 — The Liquor Tax Law in New York. By William Travers Jerome. 1905. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112066901437

104 — Social Theories and Social Facts. By William Morton Grinnell. 1905. https://archive.org/details/socialtheoriesso00grin

105 — The Congo. A Report of the Commission of Enquiry Appointed by the Congo Free State Government. A Complete and Accurate Translation. 1906. https://archive.org/details/congoreportofcom00cong

106 — Janus in Modern Life.—By Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie. 1907. https://archive.org/details/janusinmodernlif00petruoft

107 — The Elimination of the Tramp by the Introduction into America of the Labour Colony System Already Proved effective in Holland, Belgium, and Switzerland, with the Modification thereof Necessary to Adapt this System to American Conditions.—By Edmond Kelly. 1908. https://archive.org/details/eliminationoftra00kellrich

Vital American Problems; An Attempt to Solve the “Trust”, “Labor” and “Negro” Problems. By Harry Earl Montgomery. 1908. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032570479

Strikes: When to Strike, How to Strike; A Book of Suggestions for the Buyers and Sellers of Labour. By Oscar T. Crosby. 1910. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433008277620

 

Image Source: The Tariff Commission, 1916 (Left to Right, seated: D. J. Lewis; F. W. Taussig, chairman; E. P. Costigan. Standing: William Kent; W. S. Culberstone; D. C. Roper). The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860 – 1920..