==================== HES POSTING ==================== The following queries were received from a doctoral student in Italy. Responses will be distributed on the list and posted to the student.--RBE 1) which handbooks of "standard" (i.e. non truly mathematical) political economy were commonly used in U.S. universities during the late 1910s - early 1920s ? (especially at Columbia, Harvard, Chicago, Yale) 2) Are the lectures held by G.C. Evans at the University of Chicago around 1925 the first example of a full-fledged course in mathematical economics in a U.S.university? 3) If not, who was the first American teacher to hold such a course? With which handbook? ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]