Economics in the Rear-View Mirror

The scope of this interdisciplinary course from the mid-1960s is genuinely breathtaking.

He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches; he who cannot do or teach, teaches methodology.

The following manuscript was fished from Abba Lerner’s papers.

A highly popular vocational course offering for Harvard undergraduates was William M.

The Harvard economics department’s rocky relationship with its visiting committee chairman in 1950 has been documented in earlier posts.

Artifacts displayed in museums, especially ancient artifacts, are perhaps more often as not, flawed.

While trawling through old issues of the MIT alumni magazine, Technology Review, I came across this vintage 1961 piece by Robert Solow that was distilled from a presentation he made to “principal officers of companies participating in M.I.T.’s Industrial…

As was the case for Charles Jesse Bullock’s two semester sequence of public finance and taxation courses being merged into a single two semester course, two of Thomas Nixon Carvers’s semester courses were merged into a single one year course starting in t…

In 1903 Alfred Marshal, the first Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University, established what was to become the Economics Tripos as an undergraduate degree course at the Faculty of Economics and Politics.

I confess to being rather tired of re-using portraits of Professor Thomas Nixon Carver so I decided to look for another face of sociology for this post.