“The Division of Administration is limited by the Extent of the Department” might have been a chapter title in a history of economics written by Adam Smith were he to have lived two centuries after the publication of the Wealth of Nations. I transcribed and now post the following list of administrative committees/tasks and the names of members of the Harvard economics department belonging to each during the 1972-73 academic year. The list comes from the economic historian Alexander Gerschenkron’s papers at the Harvard Archives. I have paired this artifact with the printed list of economics faculty teaching economics courses in 1972-73 from the annual Harvard course catalogue.
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Committee Assignments for 1972-73
- Undergraduate Instruction
Otto Eckstein, Chairman
Elisabeth Allison
Abram Bergson
James Duesenberry
Jerry Green
William Raduchel
Martin Spechler
Francois Wilkinson
- Examing Committee
Benjamin Friedman, Chairman
Richard Caves
Abram Bergson
Robert Dorfman
Jerry Greene
Martin Spechler
Graduate Instruction
Robert Dorfman, Chairman
Truman Bewley
Hendrik Houthakker
Gregory Ingram
Richard Musgrave
Thomas Schelling
Gail Pierson
Mathematics Examination
Truman Bewley
David Starrett
Theory Examination
Arthur Smithies, Chairman
Zvi Griliches
Glenn Jenkins
John Lintner
Stephen Marglin
Janet Yellen
Tsuneo Ishikawa (Spring)
Quantitative Methods Examination
Lance Taylor, Chairman
Edward Leamer
William Raduchel
Howard Raiffa
T. N. Tideman
Thomas Horst (Spring)
Economic History Examination
Alexander Gerschenkron
Paul David
Ph.D. in Business Economics
John Lintner
Fellowships and Admissions
Zvi Griliches, Chairman
Elisabeth Allison
Hendrik Houthakker
T. N. Tidema
Marcelo Selowsky
Less Developed Countries Recruitment
Richard Mallon
Recruitment of Black Students
T. N. Tideman
- Non-Tenure Personnel
John Kain, Chairman
Richard Caves
James Duesenberry
Harvey Leibenstein
Marc Roberts
David Starrett
Janet Yellen
Placement Officer
Dwight Perkins
- Publications
Harvard Economic Studies
Richard Caves, Chairman
Edward Leamer
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Richard Musgrave, Editor
Review of Economics & Statistics
Hendrik Houthakker, Editor
- Wells Prize
Harvey Leibenstein, Chair
Alexander Geschenkron
Jerry Green
- Political Economy Lectures
Wassily Leontief, Chairman
Stephen Marglin
- Schumpeter Prize
Arthur Smithies, Chairman
Wassily Leontief
- Goldsmith Prize
Gregory Ingram, Chairman
Richard Musgrave
- Department Minutes
Martin Spechler
- Harvard Computing Center
William Raduchel
- Universities-National Bureau Committee
John Lintner
- Administrative Committee, Harvard Institute for Economic Research
William Raduchel, Acting Chairman
James Duesenberry
John T. Dunlop
Zvi Griliches
Dale Jorgenson (fall)
Dwight Perkins
Source: Harvard University Archives. Papers of Alexander Gerschenkron, Box 3, Folder “Economics (General) 1973/74, 1 of 2”.
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1972-73
Faculty of the Department of Economics
James S. Duesenberry, William Joseph Maier Professor of Money and Banking (Chairman)
Elisabeth S. Allison, Assistant Professor of Economics
Kenneth J. Arrow, Professor of Economics (on leave 1972-73)
Abram Bergson, George F. Baker Professor of Economics
Truman F. Bewley, Assistant Professor of Economics and of Mathematics
Samuel S. Bowles, Associate Professor of Economics (on leave 1972-73)
Richard E. Caves, Professor of Economics
Hollis B. Chenery, Lecturer on Economics
David C. Cole, Lecturer on Economics
Paul A. David, Visiting Professor of Economics (Stanford University)
Kenneth M. Deitch, Assistant Professor of Economics (on leave 1972-73)
Robert Dorfman, David A. Wells Professor of Economics
John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Otto Eckstein, Professor of Economics
Martin S. Feldstein, Professor of Economics (on leave 1972-73)
Benjamin M. Friedman, Assistant Professor of Economics
John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics (on leave spring term)
James D. Gavan, Lecturer on Population Sciences (Public Health) Lecturer on Economics (spring term only)
Alexander Gerschenkron, Walter S. Barker Professor of Economics
Richard T. Gill, Lecturer on Economics
Carl H. Gotsch, Lecturer on Economics
Jerry Green, Assistant Professor of Economics
Zvi Griliches, Professor of Economics
Albert O. Hirschman, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy (on leave 1972-73)
Thomas Horst, Assistant Professor of Economics (on leave fall term)
Hendrik S. Houthakker, Professor of Economics
Gregory Ingram, Assistant Professor of Economics
Dale W. Jorgenson, Professor of Economics (on leave spring term)
John F. Kain, Professor of Economics
Leonard Kopelman, Lecturer on Economics
Edward Leamer, Assistant Professor of Economics
Harvey Leibenstein, Andelot Professor of Economics and Population
Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics
John Lintner, George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration (Business)
Arthur MacEwan, Assistant Professor of Economics (on leave 1972-73)
George F. Mair, Visiting Professor of Population Economics (Smith College)
Richard D. Mallon, Lecturer on Economics
Stephen A. Marglin, Professor of Economics
Albert J. Meyer, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Lecturer on Economics
Richard A. Musgrave, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy; Professor of Economics (Law)
Gustav Papanek, Lecturer on Economics (on leave 1972-73)
Dwight H. Perkins, Professor of Modern China Studies and of Economics
Gail Pierson, Assistant Professor of Economics
William J. Raduchel, Assistant Professor of Economics
Howard Raiffa, Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics (Business)
Marc J. Roberts, Associate Professor of Economics
Sherwin Rosen, Visiting Professor of Economics (University of Rochester)
Henry Rosovsky, Frank W. Taussig Research Professor of Economics
Michael Rothschild, Assistant Professor of Economics (on leave 1972-73)
Thomas C. Schelling, Professor of Economics
Marcelo Selowsky, Assistant Professor of Economics
Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy
Martin C. Spechler, Lecturer on Economics and Social Studies
David A. Starrett, Associate Professor of Economics
Joseph J. Stern, Lecturer on Economics
Carl M. Stevens, Visiting Professor of Economics (Reed College)
Lance Taylor, Assistant Professor of Economics
T. Nicolaus Tideman, Assistant Professor of Economics (on leave fall term)
Thomas A. Wilson, Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies (University of Toronto)
Janet Yellen, Assistant Professor of Economics
Other Faculty Offering Instruction in the Department of Economics
Francis M. Bator, Professor of Political Economy (Kennedy School) (Public Policy, West European Studies)
Ralph E. Berry, Jr., Associate Professor of Economics (Public Health)
William M. Capron, Lecturer on Political Economy (Kennedy School) (Political Economy and Government)
Peter B. Doeringer, Associate Professor of Political Economy (Kennedy School)
Rashi Fein, Professor of Economics of Medicine at the Center for Community Health and Medical Care (Medicine)
Sherwood Frey, Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Business)
Herbert M. Gintis, Lecturer on Education (Education)
Joseph J. Harrington, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Engineering (Public Health)
Henry D. Jacoby, Associate Professor of Political Economy (Kennedy School)
James R. Kurth, Associate Professor of Government (Government)
Walter J. McCann, Jr., Associate Professor of Education (Education)
Harold A. Thomas, Jr., Gordon McKay Professor of Civil and Sanitary Engineering (Engineering and Applied Physics)
Richard J. Zeckhauser, Professor of Political Economy (Kennedy School)
Source: Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Courses of Instruction for Harvard & Radcliffe, 1972-73, pp. 183-185.
Image Source: Littauer Center (July 1970). Harvard University Archives.