Together Frank Hyneman Knight (Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of the Social Sciences) and Charner Marquis Perry (Associate Professor of Philosophy) taught a course at mid-century on institutional economics with the title “Economics and Social Institutions”. The course was a joint graduate offering of the departments of economics and philosophy at the University of Chicago. This post provides a transcription of a bibliography of books for the course that was found filed among Milton Friedman’s papers at the Hoover Institution Archives. One presumes from the title “Bibliography A: Books” that there must have been a “Bibliography B: articles and chapters”, but to find a copy of that B-Bibliography, we will need to go elsewhere and have a bit of luck.
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Course Announcement
[Economics] 305. Economics and Social Institutions (identical with Philosophy 305). The relations between the classical mathematical and the institutional historical views of economic phenomena; institutional factors as the framework and much of the content of the price economy; late nineteenth-century economic society as a complex of structural forms. Prereq: Econ 301 and some European economic history. Win: M 3:30-5:30; Knight, Perry.
Source: University of Chicago. Announcements, Sessions of 1950-1951. Volume L, No. 3 (June 1, 1950), p. 29.
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ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
(ECON. 305; Philos. 305)
BIBLIOGRAPHY—A: BOOKS.
(WINTER, 1949)
Ardzrooni, L. (Ed.)—Essays in our Changing Order (Veblen)
Ayres, C.E.—The Theory of Economic Progress
Ibid.—The Economic Order
Ibid.—The Divine Right of Capital
Ballard, L.V.—Social Institutions
Barnes, Harry E.—History and Prospects of the Social Sciences
Ibid.—Intellectual and Cultural His. Of the Western World
Barth, Paul,—Die Philosophie der Geschichte als Sociologie
Barnes, H.E. and Becker,—Social Thought from Lore to Science
Beard, Miriam,—History of the Business Man
Bucher, Karl,–Industrial Evolution
Bury, J.B.—The idea of Progress
Ibid.—History of Freedom of Thought
Ibid.—Evolution and History (in Evolution in Modern Thought)
Clark, John M.—Essays in Social Economics
Commons, John R.—Institutional Economics
Ibid.—Legal Foundations of Capitalism
Dewey, John,–Influence of Darwin on Philosophy
Dickinson, H.D.—Institutional Revenue
Dorfman, Joseph—Thorstein Veblen and His America
Engel-Janozi, Fr.—Growth of German Historicism
Einstein, Lewis,–Historical Change
Evolution in Modern Thought, (Mod. Lib.—Various authors)
Gambs, John S.—Beyond Supply and Demand (Bibliog., short)
Gras, N.S.B.—Introduction to Economic History
Ibid.—Business and Capitalism
Gruchy, Allan L.—Modern Economic Thought; The American Contribution
Hamilton, Walton H.—The Pattern of Competition
Hayes, E.C. (Ed.)—Recent Developments in the Social Sciences (J.M. Clark)
Hertzler, J.O.—Social Institutions
Herskovits, J.M.—The Economic Life of Primitive Peoples
Homan, Paul T.—Contemporary Economic Thought
Hook, Sidney,—From Hegel to Marx
Ibid.—Toward the Understanding of Karl Marx
Huxley, Julian,—Evolution
Jones, Richard,—Introductory Lecture on Political Economy
Keynes, J.N.—Scope and Method of Pol. Econ. (Esp. Chaps. IX, X)
Korsch, Karl,—Karl Marx
Miller, Hugh,—History and Science
Mitchell, Wesley C.—The Backward Art of Spending Money, etc.
Mitchell, William,—The Early History of the Law Merchant
Morgan, C. Lloyd,—Emergent Evolution
Ibid.—The Emergence of Novelty
Mukerjee, R.—The Institutional Theory of Economics
Mumford, Lewis,—Technics and Civilization
Müller-Lyer,—A History of Social Development (Econ. Stages)
Murchison, C. (Ed.)—Psychologies of 1925
Ogburn, William F.—Social Change
Ibid., and Goldenweiser, E.A.—Social Sciences in Interrelations
Parsons, Talcott,—The Structure of Social Action
Pound, Roscoe,—Interpretations of Legal History
Rice, Stuart A. (Ed.)—Methods in Social Science
Robertson, H.M.—The Rise of Economic Individualism
Sapir, Edward—Language (Chs. 7-8 on linguistic change)
Sée, Henri,—The Economic Interpretation of History
Ibid.—Modern Capitalism (Les origins de cap. modern)
Seligman, E.R.A.—The Economic Interpretation of History
Shotwell, J.T.—Introduction to History of History (Introduction and last chapter)
Simiand, François,—La méthode positive en économie politique
Small, A.W.—The Origins of Sociology (Historism and Methodenstreit)
Sombart, Werner,—The Quintessence of Capitalism
Ibid.—Die drei Nationalökonomien; Der moderne Kapitalismus
Spengler, O.—Decline of the West
Sumner, William G.—Folkways
Tawney, R.H.—Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Teggart, F.J.—The Theory of History
Teggart, R.V.—Thorstein Veblen
Toynbee, A.—The Study of History
Troeltsch, Ernst,—Der Historismus; Other works
Tugwell, R.G. (Ed.)—The Trend of Economics
Veblen, Thorstein B.—The Place of Science in Civilization, etc.
Ibid.—(W.C. Mitchell, Ed.)—What Veblen Taught
Ibid.—(L. Ardzrooni, Ed.)—Essays in our Changing Order
Weber, Max,—Protestantism and the Spirit of Capitalism (Tr. Parsons)
Ibid.—General Economic History (Tr. Knight)
Ibid.—Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Tr. in part, Parsons, Anderson)
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Economic History. Heaton; Knight, Barnes and Fluegel, etc.
Histories of Economic Thought, on “schools”; on the substance, esp. Edmund Whittaker, History of Economic Ideas, first 7 Chaps.
Encyclopedias, especially Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences. Especially articles on Economics, Secs. on Historical and Institutional Schools and on Economic History; also on Institutions, etc., etc.
Source: Hoover Institution Archives. Papers of Milton Friedman. Box 77, Folder 5 “University of Chicago, Econ. 305”.
Image Source: Frank H. Knight from University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-03513, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.