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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 14h

#EconSky #HarvardEconomics Course descriptions, enrollments, and exams for the seven courses offered in the borderlands department of "Social Ethics" at Harvard 1912-13. The department was an amalgam of social work, sociology, and the economics of social policy. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-soci...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#EconSky #HarvardEconomics One doesn't associate macroeconomics with Robert Dorfman. Harvard didn't actually teach "macroeconomics" to its grad students even as late as 1962-63, instead "aggregate economic theory" was the name of the game. His course final exam. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-fina...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#EconSky Robert Gordon's 1979-80 ranking of the top eighteen U.S. economics departments and his methodology. Something for the department chairs and college deans to chew on. www.irwincollier.com/northwestern...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#EconSky #HarvardEconomics In 1935 the Harvard economics department was able to offer Gottfried Haberler a five-year appointment. The support material has been transcribed. However, John Maynard Keynes cast some serious shade. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-five...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#EconSky #HarvardEconomics From the Abigail Wozniak collection of 1990s Harvard General Exams, the Spring 1993 microeconomic and macroeconomic theory exams. Most of those pictured below from 2025 weren't even born yet. I'm not shuddering, you're shuddering. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-grad...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#EconSky #MITEconomics A two page Visiting Committee Report on the Dept of Economics and Statistics at MIT from 1924. Fun fact (for me): one of the founders of the Thom McAn shoe company was a member of the Visiting Committee (I worked at Thom McAn as a teenager) www.irwincollier.com/m-i-t-report...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#EconSky #OperationsResearch Economics in the Rear-view Mirror is delighted when we can share the story of one of the early footsoldiers in applied mathematical economics. Julian L. Holley, Harvard math PhD (1924). Now a footnote in the history of economics. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-care...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#EconSky #MITeconomics Peter Diamond and Eric Maskin co-taught the economics of uncertainty at MIT in the Fall of 1978. Their five page course reading list has been transcribed and posted. www.irwincollier.com/m-i-t-readin...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#EconSky #JohnsHopkinsEconomics Course offerings in undergraduate economics at Johns Hopkins in 1911-12 amounted to a total of six semester courses taught by Jacob Hollander and George Ernest Barnett. Exams from December, March and June. www.irwincollier.com/johns-hopkin...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#EconSky #ColumbiaEconomics Memo to entering economics graduate students for the 1965-66 year regarding course planning. Written by the chairman of the department William S. Vickrey. www.irwincollier.com/columbia-mem...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#EconSky #HarvardEconomics. 1912-13 course materials for Thomas Nixon Carver's Harvard course on agricultural economics. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-agri...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#EconSky #HarvardEconomics Ewan Clague was a long serving Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. His son, Christopher K. Clague, went on to get a Harvard Ph.D. Syllabus, Reading List, and Final Exam for Christopher's course Economy of Latin America 1966. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-econ...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#EconSky #HarvardEconomics Adam Smith's shadow certainly extended to the subject of taxation as taught at Harvard in 1912-13 by Charles J. Bullock. Course description, enrollment and final exam questions. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-adva...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#EconSky #HarvardEconomics The first term course on Public Investment taught by Stephen Marglin and colleagues in political science and civil engineering at Harvard in 1966-67. Syllabus, reading list and final examination. Quite an ambitious course! www.irwincollier.com/harvard-publ...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#EconSky #HarvardEconomics Graduate course on the scope and methods of economic research taught by Thomas N. Carver at Harvard 1912-13. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-grad...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#EconSky #KeynesianEconomics McGovern's economic policies through a Keynesian lens. Hyman Minsky's 1972 talk, revealing his inner-Joan-Robinson. www.irwincollier.com/washington-u...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#EconSky #Accounting Harvard's principles of accounting course in 1912-13. A description, its enrollment, and final exam questions. Arithmetic without the glitter. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-prin...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#HarvardEconomics The Harvard Economics department was nagged by its visiting committee’s chairman to put more free-enterprise friendly doctrine into its teaching. His 1961 report. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-repo...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#EconSky #ChicagoEconomics The True-False-Uncertain questions for the economic theory preliminary exam from the winter quarter of 1956 at the University of Chicago. www.irwincollier.com/chicago-grad...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#EconSky #MITEconomics For many economists Bob Solow will always be the GOAT. Economics in the Rear-view Mirror has lifted his own 1961 popularization of the importance of productivity growth from the obscurity of MIT's alumni magazine for you. www.irwincollier.com/mit-popular-...

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1/n We've just put a new (long) paper online: osf.io/preprints/so... It's a new history of macroeconomics, and it's been one very, very important for me to write It summarizes what historians of macro have been up to in the 10 years, but more importantly...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#EconSky #HarvardEconomics Income distribution and "schemes" of social reform were merged into a single year-long course in 1912-13 at Harvard. Taught by Thomas N. Carver. Semester exams, course description and enrollment. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-dist...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#EconSky #CambridgeEconomics From "the other Cambridge" we have the questions for the papers of the Economic Tripos from 1924. www.irwincollier.com/cambridge-th...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#HarvardEcon #EconSky The 1912-13 sociology course taught by Harvard economics professor Thomas N. Carver. Course description, enrollment, and final exams. The picture is of Mary Boyle O'Reilly, a journalist/social working sociologist, gratuitously added here. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-prin...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#HarvardEcon Charles Jesse Bullock covered the field of public finance, with emphasis on taxation at the beginning of the 20th century. The end of semester exams along with a course description and enrollment figures for the 1912-13 academic year. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-publ...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#EconSky #ChicagoEconomics Another gap in Economics in the Rear-view Mirror’s collection for economic prelim questions at the University of Chicago. Today’s post from the summer quarter of 1953. www.irwincollier.com/chicago-econ...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#HarvardEconomics Exam questions, course description, and enrollment figures for the Harvard 1912-13 season of the economics of corporations taught by William Z. Ripley. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-econ...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#GDR #Korea Nine years ago today, the official donation ceremony for the Collier Collection of East German economic books and papers to Seoul National University's Graduate School of Public Administration took place.

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#HarvardEconomics #Unions William Z. Ripley was interested in the problems of non-competitive structures (trusts) and organized labor facing organized capital. A course description, enrollment numbers, and the final exam for his Harvard labor course. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-trad...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#EconSky #Swarthmore #EconomicTheory Joseph David Coppock, a PhD alumnus from Columbia, served as external examiner for honors economic theory at Swarthmore in 1947. The exam questions are posted… www.irwincollier.com/swarthmore-h...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#EconSky Transportation economics. Final exam with course description and enrollment from Harvard, 1912-13, taught by William Z. Ripley. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-tran...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#EconSky Money, banking, and financial crises were merged into a two semester course at Harvard in 1912-13. Edmund Ezra Day‘s final exams as well as a course description and enrollment are transcribed and posted. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-mone...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#EconSky European economic history of 19th century as reflected in exam questions at Harvard, 1912-13. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-19th...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#EconSky Economics in the Rear-view Mirror has crossed the 2000th artifact threshold. Presenting the Univ of Chicago’s economic theory prelim from the Winter quarter of 1953. www.irwincollier.com/chicago-grad...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#EconSky Department chair at Columbia in 1924 wants to know whether statistics is a distinct discipline or (just?) a method. So his young colleague Frederick C. Mills answers. www.irwincollier.com/columbia-sta...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#EconSky Economics in the Rear-view Mirror begins Harvard‘s academic year 1912-13 with the course description, enrollment, exams and short biographies of the teaching assistants of the instructors Frank Taussig and Edmund E. Day. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-prin...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#EconSky From Paul Samuelson‘s papers, a copy of the graduate general examination questions for economic theory. May, 1956. www.irwincollier.com/m-i-t-genera...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#EconSky From Milton Friedman‘s papers, the autumn quarter 1946 PhD exam in economics at the University of Chicago. www.irwincollier.com/chicago-phd-...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#EconSky Meet an economics PhD alumna from Illinois (1960), Janet M. Hooks. Earlier training at Mount Holyoke and Bryn Mawr, experience as statistician in the Women‘s Bureau of the Department of Labor, awarded a PhD at age 48. www.irwincollier.com/illinois-eco...

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Illinois. Economics PhD alumna. Janet Montgomery Hooks. 1960

Life and career of University of Illinois economics PhD alumna Janet M Hooks who worked on women's labor market issues and family production

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#EconSky The social ethics course offerings at Harvard 1911-12 by Peabody and his staff. Labor market and social policies in this bridge field between economics, sociology, and social work. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-soci...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#EconSky Description, enrollment and final exam for Arthur Dewing's course on corporate finance at Harvard in 1911-12 www.irwincollier.com/harvard-corp...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#EconSky Harvard economics professor Thomas Nixon Carver grew up on a farm so it was natural for him to teach the field of agricultural economics. Course description, enrollment, and final exam from 1911-12. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-agri...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

#EconSky Edwin Gay had no qualms about inflicting German economic history in German on his Harvard students. Besides the final exams for the course, this fine portrait of young bewhiskered Gustav von Schmoller for your viewing pleasure. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-germ...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#EconSky Don't let the box label fool you, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. The course description, enrollment and final exam for Rappard's course on socialism and social movements at Harvard 1911-12. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-soci...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#EconSky John Maurice Clark was consulted by the Rockefeller Foundation about providing a new line of social funding for ethical issues in economic life. His response and the list of resulting volumes. Knight, Boulding, Vickrey wrote chapters for the series. www.irwincollier.com/columbia-eth...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#EconSky Before getting his professorship in economics at Columbia, John Maurice Clark was the subject of a discrete bit of due diligence by E.R.A. Seligman regarding potential shortcomings as instructor and administrative team-player. Nov 1925 letter. www.irwincollier.com/columbia-bac...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

#EconSky Harvard undergraduate economics concentrators had this as one of two vocational courses for preparation to work in business. Wyman's course 1911-12 on business law, esp. competition and combinations. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-law-...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#EconSky Memo written by Seymour Harris summarizing survey responses by 211 top economics concentrators at Harvard during 1925-55. Also includes extended quotes from the former undergraduates regarding their Harvard economics education. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-surv...

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Irwin (Bud) Collier @irwincollier.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#EconSky William M. Cole's accounting course in 1911-12 at Harvard was well-attended. Going into business was (was?) a major default employment for Harvard graduates. Accounting was the sort of course that visiting committees thought particularly important. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-prin...

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