Robert J. Bigg
Lavington's Cat
Uncertain thoughts on the history of economic thought:
we have been seduced by the maths, not convinced by the poets.
we have been seduced by the maths, not convinced by the poets.
The Littauer Center of Public Administration, at the top of Kirkland Street, overlooking Harvard Square, was variously dubbed the white elephant or great white hope. As well as workspaces, an auditorium and library, it included what the Harvard Crimson described as luxurious conference rooms for each of the school’s distinctive seminars. The lounge, on the top floor of the building, was used for informal evening seminar discussion sessions and other gatherings.
Hansen’s and Williams’ Fiscal Policy Seminar had two parts a general session on Friday afternoons addressed by a visiting guest speaker, followed by dinner and further discussion. The second part was the working seminar group on Monday afternoons, crowded with additional ‘auditing’ graduates and junior faculty members. By the end of the 1930s the Friday sessions became less frequent.
| Date | Topic | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-10-15 Fri | F.J. Bailey | The Work of the Federal Bureau of the Budget | |
| 1937-10-18 Mon | R.A. Musgrave | The Twentieth Century Fund Report on Facing the Tax Problem | |
| 1937-10-22 Fri | Carl Shoup | General Over-All View of the American Tax System | |
| 1937-10-25 Mon | G.G. Johnson | The Capital Gains Tax | |
| 1937-11-01 Mon | R.V. Gilbert | The Price of Common Stock as an Element in the Interest Price Structure | |
| 1937-11-08 Mon | Emile Despres | The Effect of the Capital Gains Tax upon Capital Formation | |
| 1937-11-12 Fri | Eustace Seligman | The Effect of the Capital Gains Tax on the Investment Market | |
| 1937-11-15 Mon | Dr Heinrich Bruening | Harvard University | Monetary and Fiscal Policies in Germany during the Depression |
| 1937-11-22 Mon | Walter Salant | The Effect of Securities Market Regulation upon Capital Formation | |
| 1937-11-26 Fri | George C. Haas, Joseph S. Zucker, L.H. Seltzer & A.F. O'Donnell | The Federal Tax Structure | |
| 1937-11-29 Mon | K.E. Poole | Tax Remission as a Compensatory Device | |
| 1937-12-03 Fri | Gerhard Colm | Economic Consequences of Recent American Tax Policy | |
| 1937-12-06 Mon | E.P. Herring | Administrative Problems in the Formulation and Execution of Fiscal Policy | |
| 1937-12-10 Fri | George O. May | The 1936 Federal Tax Legislation | |
| 1937-12-13 Mon | E.N. Griswold | Legal Aspects of the Undistributed Profits Tax | |
| 1937-12-17 Fri | Jacob Viner | The General Relations between Fiscal Policy and the Business Cycle | |
| 1938-02-11 Fri | Daniel W. Bell | Treasury Financing | |
| W.R. Burgess | Relations of the Reserve Banks and the Treasury | ||
| 1938-02-14 Mon | Robert Frase | Economic Effects of Social Insurance Reserves, with particular reference to Unemployment Insurance Reserves | |
| 1938-02-18 Fri | E.A. Goldenweiser | Relations of Deficit Financing to the Banking System | |
| 1938-02-18 Fri | Woodlief Thomas | Fiscal Policy and the Money Market | |
| 1938-02-21 Mon | D.W. Lusher | The Relation of the Structure of Interest Rates to Investment | |
| 1938-02-28 Mon | R.A. Musgrave | Limits in Public Debt and Taxation | |
| 1938-03-04 Fri | Lauchlin Currie | Federal Income - Creating Expenditures | |
| 1938-03-07 Mon | Walter Salant | Effects of Fiscal Policy on Business Stability | |
| 1938-03-14 Mon | Herman M. Somers | Future Fiscal Burdens Arising from the Social Security Program | |
| 1938-03-18 Fri | A.J. Altmeyer & Wilbur J. Cohen | Old Age Insurance and Old Age Assistance: Current and Future Prospects | |
| 1938-03-21 Mon | Martin Krost | Tax Variability as a Compensatory Stabilizing Device | |
| 1938-03-25 Fri | Merrill G. Murray & John J. Corson | The Social Security Taxes | |
| 1938-03-28 Mon | Norton Long | Some Aspects of Fiscal Planning under Democratic Government | |
| 1938-04-01 Fri | Ernest M. Fisher | The Federal Housing Administration | |
| 1938-04-11 Mon | S.J. Dennis | The Relation of Undistributed Profits Tax and the Soldiers' Bonus to the 1937 Depression | |
| 1938-04-15 Fri | Arthur R. Gayer | Compensatory Spending | |
| 1938-04-22 Fri | Corrington Gill | Administrative and Fiscal Problems of the Relief Administration | |
| 1938-04-25 Mon | Emile Despres | Ezekiel's Proposal to Secure Full Employment | |
| 1938-04-29 Fri | Lewis Douglas | Government Fiscal Policy | |
| 1938-05-02 Mon | G.G. Johnson | The Trend Toward Treasury Control of Credit in the United States | |
| 1938-05-06 Fri | Gunnar Myrdal | University of Stockholm | Fiscal Policy in Sweden |
| 1938-05-09 Mon | Gunnar Myrdal | Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Sweden | |
| 1938-10-03 Mon | An Over-all View of the Current United States Tax System: Federal, State and Local | ||
| 1938-10-07 Fri | J. Roy Blough | Director of Tax Research, US Treasury Dept. | Tax Policy in the United States Today |
| 1938-10-10 Mon | An Over-all View of Governmental Expenditures, 1913-1938: Federal, State and Local | ||
| An Over-all View of the Rise of Public Debt, 1913-1938: Federal, State and Local | |||
| 1938-10-17 Mon | The 1938 Revenue Act | ||
| 1938-10-24 Mon | Issues Raised by the Colm-Lehmann Pamphlets | ||
| 1938-10-28 Fri | Lawrence H. Seltzer | Assistant Director, Division of Research & Statistics, US Treasury Dept. | Tax Policy with Reference to Capital Accumulation |
| 1938-10-31 Mon | The Economic Consequences of Retirement of the Public Debt | ||
| 1938-11-07 Fri | Fritz Lehmann | New School for Social Research | The German Situation |
| 1938-11-14 Mon | The Theoretical and Practical Implications of Separating the Investment Budget from the Current Budget | ||
| 1938-11-18 Fri (Joint meeting with the Administrative Process Seminar) | Charles W. Eliot, 2nd | Executive Officer, National Resources Committee | Current and Capital Budgets |
| Gunnar Myrdal | University of Stockholm | Swedish Budgetary Procedure | |
| 1938-11-21 Mon | New York City's Expenses | ||
| 1938-11-25 | Roswell Magill | former Under Secretary of the Treasury | The Formulation of a Revenue Bill |
| 1938-11-28 Mon | A Re-examination of the Stabilization of Consumer Income | ||
| 1938-12-02 Fri | Preview of American Economic Association Round Table on The Role of Public Investment and Consumer Capital Formation | ||
| Gerhard Colm | New School for Social Research | The Government as Investor | |
| Benjamin W. Lewis | Oberlin College | The Government as Competitor | |
| G. Griffith Johnson | US Treasury Dept. | The Effect of the Social Security Taxes on Consumption and Investment | |
| 1938-12-05 Mon | A Program for the Cyclical Stabilization of Investment and Current Expenditures | ||
| 1938-12-09 Fri | Preview of American Economic Association Round Table on Divergencies in the Development of Recovery in Various Countries | ||
| Gottfried Haberler | Harvard University | Recovery Policies in Democratic Countries | |
| George N. Halm | Tufts College | Recovery Policies in Totalitarian States | |
| Emil Lederer | New School for Social Research | Is There a World-wide Drift Toward Regimented Control of Industry? | |
| 1938-12-12 Mon | Public Investment: History and Program for Future | ||
| 1938-12-16 Fri | Preview of American Economic Association Round Table on the Workability of Compensatory Devices | ||
| Paul T. Ellsworth | University of Cincinnati | The Efficacy of Central Bank Policy | |
| Paul A. Samuelson | Junior Fellow, Harvard University | The Theory of Pump-Priming Re-examined | |
| Emile Despres | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | The Proposal to Tax Hoarding | |
| 1938-12-19 Mon | An Analysis of Governmental Expenditures with a View to Showing the Effects of the Volume and Types of Different Expenditures on Consumption, Saving and Investment | ||
| 1939-02-06 Mon | Canadian Fiscal Relations | ||
| 1939-02-13 Mon | Japanese Monetary and Fiscal Recovery Policies | ||
| 1939-02-17 Fri | Lauchlin Currie | Assistant Director, Division of Research & Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | The Problem of the Multiplier and the Propensities to Save and Consume and the Outlook for Capital Expenditures |
| 1939-02-20 Mon | The Development of Budgetary Organization | ||
| 1939-02-27 Mon | Balkan Credit and Fiscal Policy | ||
| 1939-03-06 Mon | The Economic Implications of a Rising Public Debt | ||
| 1939-03-10 Fri | Gardiner Means | Director, Industrial Section, National Resources Committee | Discussion of preliminary edition of "Patterns of Resource Use" by the National Resources Committee |
| 1939-03-13 Mon | Consumption, Saving and Investment and Relief and Social Security | ||
| 1939-03-17 Fri | E.A. Goldenweiser | Director, Division of Research & Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | The Problems of the Quantity and Quality of Money from the Point of View of Monetary Regulation |
| 1939-03-20 Mon | A Re-examination of the Stabilization of Consumer Income | ||
| 1939-03-27 Mon | Deficit Financing and the Banking System | ||
| 1939-04-10 Mon | Government Loans and Subsidies as a Stimulus to Private Investment | ||
| 1939-04-14 Fri | Ewan Clague | Director, Bureau of Research & Statistics, Social Security Board | Federal Grants to States |
| 1939-04-17 Mon | The Economic Effects of the Income Tax | ||
| 1939-04-21 Fri | J. Douglas Brown | Princeton University | A Survey of the Social Security Program in the United States |
| 1939-04-24 Mon | Federal Aid to the States | ||
| 1939-04-28 Fri | Marriner Eccles | Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | Financial and Fiscal Problems Faced by Capitalistic Democracies Today |
| 1939-05-01 Mon | Some Attempts at the Statistical Determination of the Multiplier and the Propensity to Consume | ||
| 1939-10-02? Mon | 5 sessions | Discussion on the manuscript of Fiscal Policy in Relation to the Business Cycle | |
| 1939-10-02? Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | The Consumption Function | |
| 1939-10-06 Fri | Isador Lubin | Commissioner of Labor Statistics, US Dept. of Labor | |
| 1939-10-09? Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | Current Trends in Economic Theory with Special Reference to the Business Cycle | |
| 1939-10-16? Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | Secular Trends in Investment and Saving | |
| 1939-10-20 Fri | Harry D. White | Director, Division of Monetary Research, US Treasury Dept. | Gold and Foreign Exchange |
| 1939-10-23? Mon | John H. Williams | Shifts in Control of Depressions | |
| 1939-10-30 Mon (joint meeting with the Administrative Process Seminar) | Robert H. Rawson | Junior Administrative Analyst, Bureau of the Budget | Organization and Methods of the Federal Bureau of the Budget |
| 1939-11-13 Mon(joint meeting with the Price Policies Seminar) | Leon Henderson | Commissioner, Securities & Exchange Commission | Price Rigidities in the American Economy |
| 1939-12-08 Fri | Raymond W. Goldsmith | Assistant Director, Research & Statistical Section, Securities & Exchange Commission | The Volume and Components of Saving in the United States |
| 1940-02-26 Mon | Richard V. Gilbert | Chief, Industrial Economics Division, US Department of Commerce | War Inventories and the Current Economic Outlook |
| 1940-03-01 Fri | Ward Shepard | Bureau of Agricultural Economics | A Proposed Forest Policy of the United States |
| 1940-03-08 Fri | Emile Despres | Senior Economist, Division of Research & Statistics, Board of Governors or the Federal Reserve System | Internal Expansion and the International Position of the United States |
| 1940-03-29 Fri | Gardiner Means | Economic Adviser, National Resources Planning Board | The Structure of the American Economy |
| 1940-04-12 Fri | M.A. Heilperin | Institute for Higher International Studies, Geneva | The International Monetary System and the Business Cycle |
| 1940-05-03 Fri | Gerhard Colm | Economist, Division of Industrial Economics, US Department of Commerce | Some Problems of Long-Run Tax Policy |
| 1939-40 | Other Monday Meetings | ||
| ? | Theories of Compensatory Spending | ||
| ? | Budgeting and Fiscal Policy | ||
| ? | The Marginal Propensity to Import | ||
| ? | The Australian Multiplier | ||
| ? | Investment in the American Economy, 1850-1949 | ||
| ? | Fiscal Aspects of Ireland's Economic Nationalism | ||
| ? | The Power of the Federal Reserve System to Restrict Expansion | ||
| ? | Wartime Corporation Finance | ||
| ? | Wartime Finance in Great Britain | ||
| ? | Unemployment Insurance Funds | ||
| ? | The Effect of Deficit Financing on the Banking System | ||
| ? | Public Health | ||
| ? | The Capital Budget | ||
| ? | The Implications of the Growth of Life Insurance for Full Employment | ||
| ? | Taxation in the Business Cycle | ||
| ? | Public Investment | ||
| ? | Redistribution of Income as a Result of Federal Expenditures | ||
| 1940-09-30 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | - | |
| 1940-10-07 Mon | John H. Williams | - | |
| 1940-10-11 Fri (joint meeting with International Economic Relations Seminar | Svend Laursen | Student, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard | International Trade and the Multiplier |
| 1940-10-21 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen & John H. Williams | - | |
| 1940-10-25 Fri | Martin Krost | Senior Economist, Division of Research & Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | The Excess Profits Tax |
| 1940-10-28 Mon | Richard A. Musgrave | Instructor, Dept. of Economics, Harvard | Report of the Canadian Royal Commission on Dominion Provincial Fiscal Relations |
| 1940-11-04 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | - | |
| 1940-11-08 Fri | George Terborgh | Senior Economist, Division of Research & Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | Prospective Accumulated Backlog in Capital Goods and Durable Consumers' Goods Industries in the Post-Defense Period |
| 1940-11-18 Mon | Elizabeth B. Schumpeter | Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Japan | |
| 1940-11-25 Mon | Benjamin H. Higgins & R.A. Musgrave | Instructors, Dept. Of Economics, Harvard | The Savings-Investment Problem Re-examined |
| 1940-12-02 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | - | |
| 1940-12-09 Mon | Dan T. Smith | Associate Professor of Finance & Taxation, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard | The Role of Borrowing in the Defense Program |
| 1940-12-16 Mon | Alvin H.Hansen | - | |
| 1940-12-20 Fri | Guy Greer | Federal Housing Administration | The Organization of the Federal Housing Program |
| 1941-02-03 Mon | Student Report | National Income and Military Effort | |
| 1941-02-10 Mon | Student Report | United States Housing Program During and After the Defense Program | |
| 1941-02-17 Mon (joint meeting with Agricultural, Forestry and Land Seminar) | Eric Englund | Assistant Chief, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, US Dept. Of Agriculture | Alternatives in Financing of the Agricultural Programs |
| 1941-02-21 Fri (joint meeting with International Economic Relations Seminar) | Harry D. White | Director, Division of Monetary Research, US Treasury Dept. | Blocked Balances |
| 1941-02-24 Mon | J. Keith Butters | Instructor, Dept. Of Economics, Harvard | Discriminatory Features in Federal Corporation Income Taxes |
| 1941-03-03 Mon (joint meeting with Agricultural, Forestry and Land Seminar | J. Kenneth Galbraith | National Defense Advisory Commission | The Farm Credit Administration and Related Farm Credit Problems |
| 1941-03-10 Mon | Student Report | Trends in the Fiscal Incapacity of State and Local Governments and Their Impact on Defense and Post-Defense Policy | |
| 1941-03-17 Mon | Student Report | The Effect of the Tax Structure on Economic Activity in the United States and Great Britain, 1929-1937 | |
| 1941-03-21 Fri (joint meeting with International Economic Relations Seminar) | Richard V. Gilbert | National Defense Advisory Commission | The American Defense Program |
| 1941-03-24 Mon | Student Report | Essays on Fiscal Policy and the Building Cycle: I. Transport Development and Building Cycles, II. Monetary Control of the Building Cycle | |
| 1941-04-07 Mon | Student Report | The Monetary Powers of Some Federal Agencies outside the Federal Reserve System | |
| 1941-04-14 Mon | Student Report | Incentive Taxation | |
| 1941-04-18 Fri (joint meeting with the Agricultural, Forestry and Land Seminar) | Student Reports | The Use of Credit as an Instrument of Social Amelioration in Agriculture; Credit for a Solvent Agriculture | |
| 1941-04-25 Fri | Carl Shoup | Professor of Economics, Columbia University | Defense Financing |
| 1941-04-28 Mon | Student Report | The Economic Development of a War Economy | |
| 1941-05-02 Mon(joint meeting with International Economic Relations Seminar) | Gustav Stolper | Financial Adviser | Financing the American Defense Program |
| 1941-09-29 Mon | The Development of Fiscal Policy | ||
| 1941-10-06 Mon | Defense Financing | ||
| 1941-10-17 Fri | The Relation Between Fiscal Policy and Inflation | ||
| 1941-10-20 Mon | Harvey S. Perloff | Associate Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | The Problem of Federal, State and Local Relationships |
| 1941-10-24 Fri | Nathan Straus | Administration, US Housing Authority | The United States Housing Authority |
| 1941-10-27 Mon | Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles | ||
| 1941-10-31 Fri | Guy Greer | Senior Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | Urban Redevelopment |
| 1941-11-03 Mon | Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles | ||
| 1941-11-10 Mon | The Present State of Fiscal Policy | ||
| 1941-11-17 Mon | The Multiplier | ||
| 1941-11-21 Fri | Walter Lichtenstein | Vice-President, First National Bank of Chicago | The Federal Advisory Council |
| 1941-11-24 Mon | Paul Samuelson and Professor Haberler | Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard | The Multiplier |
| 1941-11-28 Fri | Noel Hall | British Embassy | Economic Warfare |
| 1941-12-01 Mon | Paul Samuelson | MIT | The Multiplier |
| 1941-12-05 Fri | Robert Bryce | Dept. Of Finance, Canada | International Economic Relations with Special Reference to the Post-War Situation |
| 1941-12-08 Mon | Professors Haberler and Harris as well as Professors Williams and Hansen | Post-War Problems | |
| 1941-12-12 Fri | J. Keith Butters | Dept of Economics, Harvard | The Revenue Act of 1941 |
| 1941-12-15 Mon | Professor Harris | Harvard | The Theory of Public Investment |
| 1941-12-19 Fri | Roy Blough | Director of Tax Research, US Treasury Dept. | The 1942 Revenue Act |
| 1942-01-26 Mon | Per Jacobssen | Economist, Bank for International Settlements | The Problem of Post-War Reconstruction |
| 1942-02-02 Mon | Alejandro Shaw | Argentina | Economic Philosophy and Post-War Fiscal Policy |
| 1942-02-09 Mon | Student Report | Equalization Grants and Their Role in Fiscal Policy | |
| 1942-02-13 Fri | Jacob Viner | Chicago University | Monopolistic Trading and International Relations |
| 1942-02-16 Mon | Student Report | War Finance and Inflation | |
| 1942-02-20 Fri | Luther Gulick | National Resources Planning Board | The Effect of Federalism on Fiscal Policy |
| 1942-03-02 Mon | Leonard Elmhirst | Elmhirst Foundation | Agriculture in the Post-War Period |
| 1942-03-09 Mon | Student Report | War Finance and Direct Taxation | |
| 1942-03-13 Fri | Richard M. Bissell | Dept. of Commerce | Post-War Domestic and International Investments |
| 1942-03-16 Mon | Monetary Implications of Fiscal Policy | ||
| 1942-03-20 Fri | Albert Gaylord Hart | Iowa State College | The Present Fiscal Situation |
| 1942-03-23 Mon | Robert V. Rosa and Peter L. Bernstein | MIT and Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Problems of Monetary Control |
| 1942-03-27 Fri | Benjamin H. Higgins | Economic Consultant, Public Work Reserve | The Public Work Reserve |
| 1942-04-06 Mon | Student Report | A High-Consumption vs. a High-Savings Economy | |
| 1924-04-10 Fri | George Terborgh | Senior Economist, Division of Research & Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | Post-War Surpluses and Shortages in Plant and Equipment |
| 1942-04-17 Fri | David C. Prince | Vice-President, General Electric Company | Private Industry Post-War Planning |
| 1942-04-24 Fri | Robert V. Rosa & Peter L. Bernsetein | MIT & Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Government Lending Agencies |
| 1942-04-27 Mon | Student Report | The Impact of War Expenditures on State and Local Government | |
| 1942-05-01 Fri | Walter Salant | Chief, Price and Economic Policy Section, Division of Research, Office of Price Administration | The Inflationary Gap |
| 1942-05-21 Thu | E.M.H. Lloyd | Chairman, British Food Mission | The Problem of Britain's Food Supply |
| 1942-10-05 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | A Survey of the Fiscal War Picture | |
| 1942-10-09 Fri | Milton Gilbert | Director of National Income Division, Dept. Of Commerce | Concepts of National Income and Its Statistical Measurement |
| 1942-10-19 Mon | John H Williams | The Present Status of Fiscal Policy | |
| 1942-10-23 Fri | Paul Samuelson | MIT | Consumption Function |
| 1942-10-26 Mon | John H. Williams | Changes in the Banking System | |
| 1942-10-30 Fri | Lawrence H. Seltzer | Wayne University | Possible Techniques for the Working of the Post-War Economic System |
| 1942-11-02 Mon | A.P. Lerner | Amherst College | Rate of Interest |
| 1942-11-09 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | War Financing in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom | |
| 1942-11-13 Fri(joint meeting with International Economic Relations Seminar) | Fritz Machlup | Buffalo University | National Income, Employment, and International Relations |
| 1942-11-16 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | Federal, State, Local Fiscal Relations | |
| 1942-11-20 Fri | David E. Lilienthal | Director, Tennessee Valley Authority | The Tennessee Valley Authority |
| 1942-11-23 Mon | John Keith Butters | Harvard | Revenue Act of 1942 |
| 1942-11-27 Fit (joint meeting with International Economic Relations Seminar) | Graham F. Towers | Governor, Bank of Canada | Canadian War Economic Measures |
| 1942-11-30 Mon | John H. Williams | Basic Issues of Fiscal Policy | |
| 1942-12-04 Fri (joint meeting with International Economic Relations Seminar) | Lynn R. Edminster | Vice-Chairman, US Tariff Commission | The Reconstruction of World Trade After War |
| 1942-12-07 Mon | John H. Williams | Basic Issues of Fiscal Policy | |
| 1942-12-11 Fri (joint meeting with International Economic Relations Seminar) | Seymour E. Harris | Harvard University | War Problems of International Trade |
| 1942-12-14 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | The Beveridge Report | |
| 1943-02-01 Fri | Harold Stassen | Governor of Minnesota | Decentralized Government |
| 1943-02-08 Fri | Harvey S. Perloff | Federal Reserve Board | State-Local Fiscal Relations |
| 1943-02-12 Fri | Thomas McKittrick | President of the Bank for International Settlements | The Bank for International Settlements |
| 1943-02-15 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | The Beveridge Plan and a Post-War Minimum Budget | |
| 1943-02-24 Wed (joint meeting with International Economic Relations Seminar) | Leo Pasvolsky | US State Dept. | Post-War Problems in International Trade |
| 1943-03-01 Mon | Hans Staehle | Harvard University | Consumption and National Income in Post-War |
| 1943-03-12 Fri | Richard Musgrave | Federal Reserve Board | Revenue Bill - 1943 |
| 1943-03-26 Fri | Paul Studenski | Professor of Economics, New York University | State-Local Fiscal Policies in New York in War-Time |
| 1943-04-12 Mon (joint meeting with International Economic Relations Seminar) | Emile Despres | US Office of Strategic Services | The Transfer Problem and the Over-Saving Problem in the Pre-War and Post-War Worlds |
| 1943-04-16 Fri (joint meeting with International Economic Relations Seminar) | Albert Hahn | Planned to Adjusted Post-War Economy | |
| 1943-05-08 Sat | Guy Greer | Editor of Fortune Magazine | Urban Redevelopment |
| 1943-11-08 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | General Survey of Fiscal Policy | |
| 1943-11-15 Mon | John H. Williams | General Survey of Fiscal Policy (cont.) | |
| 1943-11-19 Fri | J. Roy Blough | Director of Tax Research, US Treasury Dept. | Some Administrative Aspects of Taxation |
| 1943-11-22 Mon | G. Neil Perry | Director, Bureau of Economics & Statistics, British Columbia | Fiscal Policy and the Canadian Economy |
| 1943-11-29 Mon | John H. Williams | Problems of International Monetary Stabilization | |
| 1943-12-06 Mon | Hans Adler | Population Growth and Fiscal Policy | |
| 1943-12-13 Mon | John H. Williams | Problems of International Monetary Stabilization | |
| 1943-12-17 Fri | Harry While | Director of Monetary Research, US Treasury Dept. | Problems of International Stabilization |
| 1943-12-20 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | Consumption and Saving during the War | |
| 1944-01-03 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | Consumption and Saving in the Postwar | |
| 1944-01-10 Mon | Gottfried Haberler | Harvard University | Reparations |
| 1944-01-14 Fri | N. Ness | Member of Mexican-US Economic Committee | Mexico |
| 1944-01-17 Mon | Beardsley Ruml | Federal Reserve Bank, New York | Economic Budget and Fiscal Budget |
| 1944-01-21 Fri | P.T. Ellsworth | Economic Studies Division, US Dept. of State | Chile |
| 1944-01-24 Mon | Don Humphrey | Special Adviser on Price Control to Haitian Government | Haiti |
| 1944-01-31 Mon | Robert Triffin | Member of US Economic Commission to Paraguay | Money, Banking, and Foreign Exchanges in Latin America |
| 1944-02-04 Fri | Miron Burgin | Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs | Argentina |
| 1944-03-31 Fri | Henry Wallich | Fiscal Policy and International Equilibrium | |
| 1944-04-14 Fri | Evsey Domar | Federal Reserve Board | Limitation of Public Debt in Relation to National Income |
| 1944-05-05 Fri | J. Keith Butters & Charles Abbott | Harvard Business School | Business Taxes |
| 1944-05-19 Fri | Guy Greer | Board of Editors, Fortune | Urban Redevelopment |
| 1944-09-11 Mon | J.W. Beyen | former president of the International Bank at Basle, Chairman of Netherlands Delegation at Bretton Woods | Bretton Woods Conference |
| 1944-09-18 Mon | Ragnar Nurske | Economic & Financial Section of League of Nations | Bretton Woods Conference |
| 1944-10-30 Mon | Douglas Copland | University of Melbourne | Australian Problems in Transition from War to Peace |
| 1944-11-06 Mon | John H. Williams | Estimates of Postwar National Income and Employment | |
| 1944-11-13 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | Wartime Fiscal Problems | |
| 1944-11-15 Wed | Randolph Paul | formerly with US Treasury | Postwar Federal Taxation |
| 1944-11-20 Mon | Frederick Lutz | Princeton University | Corporate Cash Balances, 1914-1943 |
| 1944-12-04 Mon | John H. Williams | The Bretton Woods Agreements | |
| 1944-12-11 Mon | Edward M. Bernstein | Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, US Treasury Dept. | The Scarcity of Dollars (published in JPE March 1945) |
| 1944-12-15 Fri | Francis McIntyre | Representative of the Foreign Economic Exchange on Requirements Board of the War Production Board | International Distribution of Supplies in Wartime |
| 1945-01-08 Mon | David E. Lilienthal | Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| 1945-01-15 Mon | Oliver M.W. Sprague | Professor Emeritus, Harvard University | Postwar Corporate Taxation |
| 1945-01-22 Mon | Walter Gardner | Federal Reserve Board | Some Aspects of the Bretton Woods Program |
| 1945-01-26 Fri | William Fellner | University of California | Types of Expansionary Policies and the Rate of Interest |
| 1945-01-29 Mon | Walter F. Bogner, Charles R. Cherington, Carl J. Friedrich, Seymour E. Harris, Talcott Parsons, Alfred D Simpson, & George B. Walker | The Boston Urban Development Plan | |
| 1945-03-05 Mon | Robert Triffin | Federal Reserve Board | International Economic Problems of South America |
| 1945-03-09 Fri | Paul J. Raver | Bonneville Power Administration | Bonneville Power Administration |
| 1945-03-12 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | Murray Employment Bill | |
| 1945-03-16 Fri | H.L. Seligman | Bank Earnings and Taxation of Bank Profits | |
| 1945-03-19 Mon | Louis Rasminsky | Foreign Exchange Control Board, Ottawa, Canada | British-American Trade Problems from the Canadian Point of View (published in EJ September 1945) |
| 1945-03-26 Mon | Herbert Furth | Federal Reserve Board | Monetary and Financial Problems of the Liberated Countries |
| 1945-04-02 Mon | Lloyd Metzler | Federal Reserve Board | Postwar Economic Policies of the United Kingdom (joint article with Randall Hinshaw based on this paper published in The Review of Economic Statistics, November 1945) |
| 1945-04-13 Fri | S.S. Pu | Fiscal Policies and Income Generation | |
| 1945-04-16 Mon | Edward S. Mason | US State Dept. | Commodity Agreements |
| 1945-04-20 Fri | Héctor Tassara | The Role of the Central Bank in the Argentine Economy | |
| 1945-04-23 Mon | Abba P. Lerner | New School for Social Research | Postwar Policies |
| 1945-04-27 Fri | John Van Sickle | Vanderbilt University | Wages and Employment: A Regional Approach |
| 1945-04-30 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | Postwar Wage Policy | |
| 1945-05-14 Mon | E.M.H. Lloyd | United Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, British Treasury | Inflation in Europe |
| 1945-05-21 Mon | Axel Iveroth | Swedish Legation, Washington DC | Postwar Plans in Sweden |
| 1945-05-28 Mon | Leon Dupriez | University of Louvain, Belgium | Problem of Full Employment in View of Recent European Experience |
| 1945-05-29 Tue | Seymour E. Harris, Wassily W. Leontief, Gottfried Haberler & Alvin H. Hansen | Harvard University | The Shorter Work Week and Full Employment |
| 1946-02-11 Mon | Richard A. Musgrave | Federal Tax Economy | |
| 1947-03-24 Mon | Richard A. Mugrave | Debt Management | |
| 1947-12-01 Mon | Richard A. Musgrave | Built-in Budget Flexibility | |
| 1949-50 | The Seminar was only held in the second semester | ||
| 1950-02-13 Mon | Gerhard Colm | Chairman of the Committee which prepared the Organization for European Economic Cooperation Second Interim Report1 | The O.E.E.C. Second Interim Report |
| 1950-02-27 Mon | John H. Williams | The O.E.E.C. Report with Special Reference to the European Payments Union | |
| 1950-03-06 Mon | Arthur Smithies | The United Nations Experts' Report on Full Employment | |
| 1950-03-13 Mon | John H. Williams | The Present Stage of the Marshall Plan, Particularly Trade Patterns | |
| 1950-03-20 Mon | A.J. Brown | Leeds University, UK | Interest Rates and Liquidity in Inflation |
| 1950-03-27 Mon | Alvin H. Hansen | "Trade Cycles" by J.R. Hicks | |
| 1950-04-10 Mon | J. Kenneth Galbraith | Fiscal Policy Aspects of the Brannan Farm Program | |
| 1950-04-14 Fri | Broader Investment Channels for Life Insurance Companies | The 1949 Recession and Budgetary Flexibility | |
| 1950-04-17 Mon | H. Christian Sonne | Chairman of the National Planning Association | The Princeton Conference on Anti-Deflation Policy |
| 1950-04-24 Mon | Bond vs. Stock Issues by U.S. Corporations for Financing New Capital Investment | Monetary Effects from Government Credit Activity | |
| 1950-04-28 Fri | Input-Output as an Aid in Near Future Forecasting | Britain's Sterling Balances | |
| 1950-05-01 Mon | An Inquiry into the Economics of the Steel Industry Since 1945 | The Case for a Counter-Cyclical Public Housing Policy | |
| 1950-05-06 Sat | Some Considerations of the Housing Problems of America's Middle Income Families | Some Reflections on the British Budget and Its Implications for Fiscal Policy | |
| 1951-10-15 Mon | Richard A. Musgrave | Current German Fiscal Problems | |
| 1953-03-02 Mon | Richard A. Musgrave | Multiple Budget Theory | |
Sources: Harvard University Reports of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments; Desmarais-Tremblay, M. and Johnson, M. (2019), ""The fiscal policy seminar: its early stages" by Richard A. Musgrave", Including a symposium on Robert Heilbroner at 100: Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, 15 Oct., Vol. 37C pp. 147-179. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0743-41542019000037C007
First published online July 2023
February 1950, the OEEC, formed in 1948, became the OECD, in 1961, with the addition of the US and Canada to the original 18 European participants ↩︎