Edward Chamberlin was a member of the graduate examination committee of the Harvard economics department in the early 1960s and in his files I have found copies of the theory exams from 1961, 1962, and 1963 along with a few memos that  circulated among members of the committee that together provide a description of the […] The post Harvard. Graduate Economic Theory Exam. April 1963 appeared first on Economics in the Rear-View Mirror ..read more

Questions from the November 1962 written examination in graduate economic theory from Harvard along with a matrix of grades by student by question and by grader. The post Harvard. Graduate Economic Theory Exam. November 1962 appeared first on Economics in the Rear-View Mirror ..read more

Edward Chamberlin was a member of the graduate examination committee of the Harvard economics department in the early 1960s and in his files I have found copies of the theory exams from 1961, 1962, and 1963 along with a few memos that  circulated among members of the committee that together provide a description of the […] The post Harvard. Graduate Economic Theory Exam. April 1961 appeared first on Economics in the Rear-View Mirror ..read more

One of the 2010 Nobel prize laureates in economics, Dale T. Mortensen, was still a year short of his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University when he taught advanced price theory at Northwestern University. I recently found a copy of his course reading list in the Robert Clower papers at Duke’s Economists’ Papers archive. _________________________ NORTHWESTERN […] The post Northwestern. Reading list for advanced price theory. Mortensen, 1966 appeared first on Economics in the Rear-View Mirror ..read more

William Morse Cole, his life, career, and publications. The essence of Cole’s accounting course is to be found in his textbook: Accounts. Their Construction and Interpretation for Business Men and Students of Affairs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. “The first issue of this book was brought out at a time when no general, non-technical, non-professional […] The post Harvard. Exams for principles of accounting. W. M. Cole, 1907-1908 appeared first on Economics in the Rear-View Mirror ..read more

Having a fresh Ph.D. in hand and starting his first year at the rank of assistant professor of economics at Harvard in the Fall term of 1955-56, John R. Meyer offered a graduate course in applied econometrics based largely on his Ph.D. thesis work. A course description, outline, and reading list for “Quantitative Research on […] The post Harvard. Course Outline and Reading List for Quantitative Research on the Behavior of the Firm. John R. Meyer, 1955-56 appeared first on Economics in the Rear-View Mirror ..read more

In William Baumol’s papers in Duke University’s Economists’ Papers Archive I came upon a cache of six Ph.D. exams for the field of industrial organization at Princeton from the late 1970s. This is definitely a collection worth the effort of transcribing and presenting in a single post. _______________________________ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Department of Economics General Examination […] The post Princeton. General PhD Exams in Industrial Organisation, 1975-1979 appeared first on Economics in the Rear-View Mirror ..read more

Before one gets too smug about the modest level of mathematical sophistication revealed in the following examination that was taken in 1960 by ten Princeton economics graduate students and only passed by half of them, it is important to keep in mind that the purpose of the examination appears only to have been to permit […] The post Princeton. Mathematics for Economics Grad Students Exam. 1960 appeared first on Economics in the Rear-View Mirror ..read more

Having just spent nearly a month travelling along the East Coast of the U.S., it is great to get back to posting new content. On this trip I was able to get in three fine days of work in the Economists’ Papers Archive at Duke. While there I found much useful material for Economics in […] The post UCLA. Monetary Economics, PhD qualifying exam. 1971 appeared first on Economics in the Rear-View Mirror ..read more

Eighteen exams constituted the 1923 Economics Tripos at Cambridge University. This post adds them to the collection of transcribed artifacts that constitute the content of Economics in the Rear-view Mirror. ______________________________ Links to the 1923 Exams Part I English Economic History Industry and Labour Economic Theory (Value and Distribution) Essay on one of seven subjects […] The post Cambridge. Economics Tripos Examination Questions, 1923 appeared first on Economics in the Rear-View Mirror ..read more