Department of Economics records,
- Author:
- State University of New York at Albany. Department of Economics.
- Call Number:
- MSS UA-613 local
- Abstract:
- This collection includes publications on econometrics and a proposal for a D.A. program in economics, 1971-1985.
- Historical Note:
- The current Department of Economics was created in 1966 in the Division of Social Sciences. By that date, however, economics had been taught at the University for almost 100 years, and a department of economics has existed in one form or another for fifty-five years. In 1909 the Normal College adopted a departmental structure and economics became part of the joint Department of Government and Economics. Its first chairman was Professor Adam A. Walker. Economics was listed in the course catalogues from 1914 to 1934, but it is unclear whether it existed as an independent Department of Economics or as joint Department of Economics and Government. Dr. Walker was chairman of the Department of Economics and Sociology from 1934 to 1936. In 1966, Dr. Louis R. Salkever was made acting chair of the Department of Economics, his post became permanent in 1967, and he stayed on as chair until 1971. Graduate degrees were first mentioned in 1967 when the department offered a program leading to a Master's Degree. The Ph. D. was first offered in the fall of 1969. The aim of this program was "to prepare productive research scholars competent to teach in a college or university and to conduct economic research for private or public agencies." Concentrations were offered in many fields, including economic theory and doctrine, quantitative economics, economic history, development economics, monetary and fiscal economics, international economics, labor economics, economic organization and social control, and regional economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1.0 cu. ft
- Access Terms:
- Access to the collection is unrestricted.
- Notes:
- Part of the University Archives. local
- Subjects:
- Economics Study and teaching New York (State), Universities and colleges Departments, Econometrics, Econometrics, Economics Study and teaching, Education Curricula, Universities and colleges Departments, and Universities and colleges Graduate work
- Genres/Forms:
- Publications. aat and Proposal. aat
- Corporate Names:
- State University of New York at Albany. Department of Economics, State University of New York at Albany Curricula, State University of New York at Albany Graduate work, and State University of New York at Albany
- Geographic Terms:
- New York (State)
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