Economics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on economics as a branch of learning. This heading may be divided geographically for works on this branch of learning in a specific place. Works on the economic conditions of particular countries, regions, cities, etc., are entered under the name of the place subdivided by Economic conditions.
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas Sewall Adams papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 31
Overview:
The papers, relating almost exclusively to matters of taxation, consist of material collected and written for a survey for the American Gas Association; material for a survey of the cement industry in the case United States v. Atlas Portland Cement Company, et al.; material concerning the Committee on Double Taxation of the International Chamber of Commerce and of the League of Nations; papers relating to the Wisconsin Tax Commission; papers relating to the President's Conference on Home...
Dates:
1900-1936
Found in:
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Thomas Sewall Adams papers
Board of Research Associates in American Economic History papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 88
Overview:
Correspondence, reports, studies, minutes of meetings, circular letters, financial reports, outlines of proposed surveys, annual reports, departmental reports, and monographs relative to the established purpose of the Board, which was sponsored by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Economics and Sociology. Included are interviews (ca. 1906-1907) with Southern farmers, professionals, government officials, and merchants on the economics of agriculture in the South. Also a...
Dates:
1902-1933
Henry Crosby Emery papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 966
Overview:
The papers center on two aspects of Emery's activities: his teaching career at Yale and his service as chairman of the U.S. Tariff Board (1909-1913). Papers relating to the Board include correspondence, reports, statistics, and cloth samples collected in connection with the board's investigation of the carpet, wool, and cotton manufacturing industries, ca.1911-1912. Principal correspondents are members of the board, among them Alvin H. Sanders, James B. Reynolds, L. M. Spier, N. I. Stone, R. B....
Dates:
1887-1912
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Henry Crosby Emery papers
Fred Rogers Fairchild papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 202
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes, research files, and printed material which document Fred Rogers Fairchild's career as an economist, consultant, and author. Fairchild's work as a tax adviser to Connecticut, the territory of Hawaii, and Santo Domingo are represented, along with his studies of finance and taxation in the Northeastern states, the insurance and forestry industries, and post-World War I Europe. Fairchild's activities as a teacher of economics and a member of...
Dates:
1901-1965
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Fred Rogers Fairchild papers
Farnam family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 203
Overview:
Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, financial papers, writings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia of the Farnam family of New Haven, Connecticut, 1721-1929. The papers of Henry Farnam (1803-1883), and two of his sons, Henry Walcott Farnam (1853-1933) and William Whitman Farnam (1844-1929) form this collection. The papers of Henry Farnam include personal and professional correspondence concerning his family, life in New Haven, and the building of several canals and railroads in Connecticut and the...
Dates:
1721-1941
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Farnam family papers
Irving Fisher papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 212
Summary:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, teaching files, and memorabilia documenting the professional career and personal life of Irving Fisher, a mathematician, political economist, author, inventor, and activist in social causes. The materials reflect Fisher's interests in economics, the League of Nations, monetary theory and policy, national politics, health reform, prohibition, nutrition, and other topics. Major correspondents include politicians, economists, members of the...
Dates:
1861-1976, bulk 1894-1947
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Irving Fisher papers
Kent Tenney Healy papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 653
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, subject files, teaching materials, minutes, reports, and memoranda relating to various Yale University committees and departments with which Kent Healy was connected. As a specialist in transportation he was a member of a number of government committees, among them the National Resources Planning Board, the New England Council Transportation Committee, and the New Haven Traffic Commission. His subject files contain extensive printed and mimeographed...
Dates:
1918-1969
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Kent Tenney Healy papers
Alfred Eggleston Holcomb papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1007
Overview:
The Alfred Eggleston Holcomb Papers include correspondence, writings, and printed matter related to tax reform. Principal correspondents are Charles J. Bullock and Edwin R. A. Seligman, who write about their work as officers of the National Tax Association. The writing and printed matter are also concerned with questions of taxation, particularly the single tax.
Dates:
1909-1939
Alvin Saunders Johnson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 615
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes, clippings and photographs of Alvin Saunders Johnson. Although records relating to his career are relatively scanty, two manuscript drafts of his autobiography, Pioneer Progress, are among the writings. The correspondence of some 1,700 letters includes: Max Ascoli, Jacob Billikopf, Gerhard Colm, Agnes DeLima, Thomas E. Dewey, Eduard Heinmann, Edith Johnson, Corliss Lamont, Adolphe Lowe, Thomas Mann, Harry Scherman.
Dates:
1902-1969
Tjalling Charles Koopmans papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1439
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, subject files, and material which document Tjalling Koopmans's professional career as an economist, author, and educator. The papers include files relating to his research, professional affiliations, and writings.
Dates:
1954-1984
Mailliard Family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 341
Overview:
The major part of these papers consist of correspondence, business papers and memorabilia relating to Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king of Naples and Spain. These were accumulated by Louis Hypolite Mailliard who acted as secretary to Bonaparte and was later executor of his estate. Most of these papers related to the affairs of the estate, including property in Bordentown, New Jersey, where Napoleon lived in exile from 1816 to 1839. A small amount of the correspondence as well as journals kept by Louis...
Dates:
1785-1896
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Mailliard Family papers
Frank Parsons papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 11
Overview:
Correspondence, notes and manuscripts for books and articles, and other documents and papers of Frank Parsons, lawyer, educator, and lecturer and writer on economics and social reform. There is very little material of a personal nature. Included is a file of correspondence with Ralph Albertson, a close friend of Parsons, mainly concerned with the cooperative movement.
Dates:
1888-1908
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Frank Parsons papers
Philosophy and social science manuscripts collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 644
Overview:
An artificial collection of notes, lectures, student papers, scrapbooks, and writings relating to the study and teaching of the academic disciplines in the social sciences including economics, education, psychology, political science, philosophy, and sociology, 1866-1967. The papers of Charles Andrews Armstrong Bennett, Albert Bushnell Hart, Wilmon Henry Sheldon, Wilbur Marshall Urban, and Alfred North Whitehead are included.
Dates:
1866-1967
Lloyd G. Reynolds papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1943
Overview:
The materials consist of personal and professional files of Lloyd G. Reynolds, economist, educator, and author, and to a lesser extent, his wife, Mary T. Reynolds, noted authority on James Joyce. Included are correspondence, subject files, teaching files, and publications.
Dates:
Circa 1937-1988
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Lloyd G. Reynolds papers
Charles Robinson Smith papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 455
Overview:
Correspondence, writings and miscellanea relating to the issue of the allied nations payment of war debts incurred during World War I, and U.S. tax laws.
Dates:
1890-1930
William Graham Sumner papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 291
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes and research materials, clippings, memorabilia, photographs and financial records of William Graham Sumner, a sociologist, professor at Yale University, and advocate of free trade and the gold standard. The correspondence (over 13,000 items) documents many of Sumner's interests including the Yale College curriculum and economic and political issues. It also includes substantive accounts from friends in the South about Reconstruction, the...
Dates:
1863-1946
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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William Graham Sumner papers
James Tobin papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1746
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, subject files, and writings, primarily documenting the professional career and personal life of James Tobin as an economist and educator.
Dates:
1930-2002
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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James Tobin papers