Harvard. Reading List for Economics of Education and Technology. Bowles, 1967-68

Reading record for economics of training and know-how. The following studying list comes from a Harvard course on the economics of education and technology offered by assistant professor Samuel S. Bowles in the spring semester of the 1967-68 educational year. Bowles was 28 years young then. Here is a hyperlink to his Santa Fe Institute webpage. Only the pages of the syllabus with the reading lists were submitted to the Harvard library for the purpose of putting books on reserve. Not included had been the couple of paragraphs of motivation/description for every of the seven sections of the course. I needed to insert approximate titles for sections IV and VII and have put those words between sq. brackets. Samuel Bowles, Planning Educational Systems for Economic Growth. Half course (spring time period). Attention shall be given to the economics of the training course of, the speculation and implications of innovation, the consequences of education and technological change on the distribution of revenue and the role of education and technological change in economic development.

Relevant case research and present policy points associated to the United States and underdeveloped countries might be considered. Source: Harvard University. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Courses of Instruction, Harvard and Radcliffe, 1967-68, p. I. THE DISTRIBUTION OF Income - Recent U.S. A. Batchelder, "Decline within the Relative Income of Negro Men," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November, 1964, pp. H. Miller, Rich Man, Poor Man, chapters 1, 2, 4-6, pp. I. Kravis, "Relative Income Shares in truth and Theory," American Economic Neuro Surge Review, 1959, pp. R. Lampman, The Share of Top Wealth-Holders in National Wealth, chapter 1, pp. 1-26; also Table 97, p. G. Kolko, Wealth and Power in America. H. Miller, Distribution of Income in the United States. H. Miller, Rich Man, Poor Man, Chapters 8 and 9, pp. I. Fisher, The idea of Interest, Chapters 4, 7, 10, and 11, pp. T. Ribich, Poverty and Education, Chapter I, pp. 1-17 and 23-32, mimeo. G. Becker, Human Capital, Chapters 1-5; 7 and 8, pp.

J. Coleman, "Equal Schools or Equal Students," in The general public Interest, Summer, 1966, pp. P. Sexton, Education and Income, pp. P. Sexton, "City Schools," within the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 1964, reprinted in L. Ferman, et al., eds., Poverty in America. G. Becker, "Human Capital and the non-public Distribution of Income: An Analytical Approach," mimeo, fifty nine pp. Measuring the benefits of Government Investments, pp. J. K. Folger and C. B. Nam, Education of the American Population (U.S. O. Lewis, "The Culture of Poverty," Scientific American, October, 1966, pp. Education Economy and Society. M. Brown, Neuro Surge Review On the idea and Measurement of Technological Change, chapter 2, pp. J. Meade, Efficiency, Equality and the Ownership of Property, Chapter 1, pp. J. Hicks, Theory of Wages, Chapter VI, pp. K. Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter XV, sections 3, 5 and 6, pp. P. Sweezy, The speculation of Capitalist Development, Chapter 5, pp.

R. Solow, "Technology and Unemployment," The general public Interest, Fall, 1965, pp. The Economics of Underdevelopment, pp. J. Meade, Efficiency, Equality and the Ownership of Property, Chapters 2-7, pp. National Commission on Technology, Automation, and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Vol. 1, chapters 1-4, pp. S. Kuznets, Postwar Economic Growth, Lecture II, "Characteristics of Modern Economic Growth," pp. C. Cipolla, The Economic History of World Population, Chapters 1 and 2, pp. E. Denison, The Sources of Economic Growth within the United States, Chapters 1, 2, and 3, pp. M. Abramovitz, "The Welfare Interpretation of Secular Trends in National Income and Product," Abramovitz, et al. The Allocation of Economic Resources, pp. S. Kuznets, Modern Economic Growth. G. Winston, "The Power Growth Model," mimeo, 18 pp. J. Schumpeter, The theory of Economic Development, Chapters 1 to 4, pp. J. Meade, A Neoclassical Theory of Economic Growth, Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 1. The Advance of Productivity in the U.S. J. Kendrick, Productivity Trends in the United States, pp.