Professor Mary S. Morgan

LSE, University of Amsterdam and Visiting Fellow U.Penn;

Vice President (Publications), British Academy

See Mary's Keynes Lecture at the British Academy here:

http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2013/Models_Fact_and_Fiction_in_Economics.cfm

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From: Societies for the History of Economics [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Matias Vernengo [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 December 2014 21:28
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Subject: Re: [SHOE] Early 20th Century Principles of Economics Texts

Hi Dan:
Not sure I can help. But part of the problem of finding intro textbooks in the period you are looking is that they were not common, and certainly were different than the modern ones. Samuelson and Tarshis (link here http://www.archive.org/stream/elementsofeconom030865mbp#page/n23/mode/2up) were among the first modern textbooks. Unless you consider Marshall's Principles as an intro textbook. Maurice Dobb had an Intro book, but it wasn't'a textbook in the modern sense (here http://books.google.com/books/about/An_Introduction_to_Economics.html?id=qnN6QgAACAAJ).
Best,
Matías

Matías Vernengo
Associate Professor
Bucknell University
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From: Societies for the History of Economics [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Dan Hirschman [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 1:20 PM
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Subject: [SHOE] Early 20th Century Principles of Economics Texts

Dear SHOE,

I'm working on an analysis of introductory economics textbooks published in the United States between about 1890 and 1950 (the period between Marshall and Samuelson, roughly). I've accumulated an ad hoc collection of texts based on the holdings of my library and scattered references in the secondary literature (Elzinga 1992, Walstad et al 1998, and Giraud 2013 in particular), but I was hoping that there might be some more systematic way to generate a universe of texts from which to sample. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good source that discusses principles texts in this period, perhaps with information on relative influence (number of editions, course adoptions, or sales)? Does such a source exist?

Thanks very much!
Dan Hirschman
PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
University of Michigan

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