At Chicago it took another thirty years or so. They had
a) Theory or Price Theory
b) Money
for years.
Professor M June Flanders
The Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv Israel 69978
Tel: +972.3.549.5625
Fax +972.3.547.7316
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Subject: Re: [SHOE] Question about micro vs macro classes
Thanks, Peter.
If John Womack is correct, then his was at least the first to refer to
"microeconomics". But, for me, I am interested in the curricular issue of
when
some department decided to name their courses with micro and macro. Any
ideas on
that?
LB
Peter J Boettke wrote:
> Larry,
>
> I don't know if this is accurate. But when I studied with him, Kenneth
> Boulding told me that his textbook was the first textbook that made the
> micro/macro split. I believe that book came out in the late 1940s prior
to
> Sameulson's book. If Boulding had the split in Economic Analysis, then it
> must have been the emerging practice. I would look around the date of
those
> publications in the 1940s.
>
> But the first edition of Samuelson's book, has the macro chapters upfront
> prior to the microeconomics chapters. I believe that became the standard
> practice for years.
>
> Alchian and Allen fought against that trend of macro first, but it was not
a
> successful text in terms of wide-scale adoption in the 1960s. But it did
> become a standard reference text for a generation of the
> counter-revolutionaries to the Neo-Keynesian synthesis --- property
rights,
> public choice, new economic history, etc.
>
> I believe Gwartney and Stroup is the first text that has some success that
> moved micro prior to macro once again. And that is in the 1970s.
>
> Peter J. Boettke BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the
Mercatus
> Center, George Mason University & University Professor & Professor of
> Economics Department of Economics, MSN 3G4 George Mason University
Fairfax,
> VA 22030 Phone: 703-993-1149 FAX: 703-993-1133 Email: [log in to unmask]
> http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/pboettke
> http://www.coordinationproblem.org
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Lawrence Boland <[log in to unmask]> Date:
> Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:15 pm Subject: Re: [SHOE] Question about micro
vs
> macro classes
>
>> Several have suggested that I look at catalogs.
>>
>> Actually, I have looked at the calendars for my undergraduate and
>> graduateuniversities -- 1957 and '61 for the former, and '61 and '65 for
>> the latter. In none of them were there micro or macro courses by title.
In
>> '57 and '61undergraduate calendars there were none even by description.
>> However, in both, there was classes in intermediate "price theory" and
>> intermediate "nationalincome analysis". For graduate school in '61, there
>> were two classes in "general economic theory", neither of which mentions
>> micro or macro as they have the same description. When it came to '65 the
>> titles were the same but one mentions"general micro-economic theory" and
>> the other "a review of Keynesianmacro-economics".
>>
>> I have the fourth edition (1958) of Samuelson's textbook (which I used in
>> '61). He mentions micro vs macro on only two pages, the first of which he
>> promoted the neoclassical synthesis to say the "cleavage between [them]
has
>> been closed" (p. 360).
>>
>> Does anyone have the first edition? My school is too new to have a
library
>> copy.
>>
>> LB
>>
>> -- Lawrence A. Boland, FRSC Department of Economics, Simon Fraser
>> University Burnaby BC Canada V5A-1S6 ph: 778-782-4487, web:
>> http://www.sfu.ca/~boland
>>
>
--
Lawrence A. Boland, FRSC
Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby BC Canada V5A-1S6
ph: 778-782-4487, web: http://www.sfu.ca/~boland
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