Dept. of Economics records, 1938-2005

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Dept. of Economics records, 1938-2005

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The study of economics has a long history at Duke University. Economics classes were taught at Trinity College, the forerunner of Duke University, as early as the 1899-1900 academic year. Several individuals particularly important to the Department's development and programming: include Calvin Bryce Hoover; Joseph J. Spengler; H. Gregg Lewis; and Martin Bronfenbrenner. The collection contains miscellaneous office files associated with the daily operations of the Department of Economics including: correspondence, memoranda, class schedules, faculty rosters and files, reports, and undergraduate honors theses. Also present are the Working Papers in Economics produced by the Department of Economics, Duke University dating 1981-1990, 1992.

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Economics classes were taught at Trinity College, the forerunner of Duke University, as early as the 1899-1900 academic year, but it was not a distinct discipline until 1902 when William Henry Glasson, Ph.D. from Columbia University, came to Durham as Professor of Political Economy and Social Science. In 1908 he became Head of the Department of Economics and Social Science. The Department of Economics and Social Science was represented in Duke University's first bulletin...