Lecture Notes on Types of Economic Theory, Volume I

Lecture Notes on Types of Economic Theory, Volume I
by Wesley C. Mitchell

Book Description: Augustus M. Kelley, New York, 1949. Wrappers. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Softcover, Blue card wrappers with black title to cover and spine, First Edition published 1949, Lecture Notes on Types of Economic Theory As delivered by Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, Volume I, The Lectures were taken down down stenographically by a student at Columbia University 1934-1935. Professor Mitchell has no responsibility whatever for the accuracy of the transcript.

Book Condition: Good, covers heavily rubbed and soiled, top of spine cover torn, previous owner name in pen to top of front cover, spine and title page, slight bio-damage to title page, pages tanned but otherwise clean, no marks, no dust jacket.

Contents: Professor Wesley C. Mitchell (1847-1948) delivered his famous course of "Lectures on Types of Economic Theory" at Columbia University during the 1930's. An extremely popular course, it attracted students from all over the world. It was not unusual to find all the seats occupied in the old lecture room of Fayerweather Hall, as students crowded in to hear Professor Mitchell's lucid and penetrating analysis of the contributions of the great economists to development of economic thought.

Professor Mitchell discussed each leading figure with a characteristic dry humor and warm sympathy that served to bring their ideas to life in a truly remarkable degree. But what he was most deeply concerned with was the dependence of these ideas of the great theorist on the major social and economic issues which "troubled their generations."

It is fortunate then, that the lectures were stenographically transcribed by John Myers, a student attending the course delivered at Columbia in the fall of 1934 and the spring of 1935. -- 261 pp. Extremely entertaining read, especially considering the period in the 1930's when this was written. (We also carry several of Mitchell's other works).

Status: SOLD, 14 October 2012 to Private Collector in Tennessee.




Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874-1948)