JAMES WILSON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS.
Professor Thomas Walker Page.
Adjunct Professor Bardin.
Adjunct Professor Rogers.
Mr. Hyde.
Mr. Hart.
Students are advised not to take Economics or Commercial Geography
before their second session in the College.
For Undergraduates.
Economics B1: The Principles of Economics.—A survey of the principles
of economics in the first and second terms is followed in the third term by
a study of the bearing of these principles upon present American conditions.
Instruction will be given by lectures, assigned readings, reports, and discussions.—(B.A.
or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
9.30-10.30. Cabell Hall. Professor
Page and Mr.
Hart.
Government B1: Constitutional Government.—A description and comparison
of the theories and essential features of the governments of the United
States, England, France, Germany, and Switzerland, with the greatest stress on
the government of the United States and the work of Congress. Instruction
by lectures, textbook study, assigned readings, written reports, and conferences
with the instructor.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday, 12.30-1.30. Minor Hall. Adjunct Professor Rogers and Mr.
Hart.
Commercial Geography B1: General Survey.—The agricultural, industrial
and artistic production of the various nations of the world, the conditions
governing the markets, the laws of international exchange, the development of
trade relations and a summary of the history of commerce and the shifting,
with time, of trade routes.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours of electives-at-large.)
Adjunct Professor Bardin. Omitted in 1918-1919.
Commercial Geography B2: Economics Geography of Latin America.—
Will be given if as many as thirty men apply for it at registration. No one
will be admitted after the first term. A general survey of the civilization, past
and present, of the republics of South and Central America and Mexico. First
term: A study of the physical geography and climate of the region, with
map-making and parallel reading; the history and ethnology of the native races.
Second term: The Spanish Conquest and Colonial Empire, and the South
American Revolution; the growth of the modern states, the origins of republicanism,
and the consequences of the economic and political anarchy of this
epoch. Third term: The economic and racial status of the present-day republics,
and the tendencies of their growth and development, as predicated by
history and economic conditions.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours of
electives-at-large.) Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10.30-11.30. Rotunda, S. E.
Adjunct Professor Bardin.
Commercial Law B1: Not Open to First-Year Students.—A detailed study
of the fundamental and important, rather than the technical, principles of those
subjects of which some knowledge is necessary in ordinary commercial transactions,
including contracts, negotiable instruments, agency, partnerships, bailments
and carriers, sales of personal property, insurance. Instruction is given
in the practical drafting of business documents, such as simple contracts, powers
of attorney, articles of copartnership, mortgages, deeds of trust and bills of
sale.—(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours of electives-at-large.) Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, 12.30-1.30. Cabell Hall. Mr. Hyde.
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Economics C1: The Growth of American Industry and Commerce:
Economics B1 and any other B course in Group IV, prerequisite.—Economic
principles as illustrated by American experience, with a study of the influence
of economic conditions upon American social and political development. The
work is mainly topical, and the topics receiving chief emphasis vary from year
to year.—Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10.30-11.30. Cabell Hall. Professor
Page.
Economics C2: Public Finance: Economics B1 and one other B course
in Group IV, prerequisite.—First and second terms: The general principles of
public finance, with a detailed investigation of state and local taxation. Third
term: The financial institutions and methods of the federal government.
Professor Page. Offered in alternate years with Economics C1. Omitted in
1918-1919.
Government C1: International Relations: Government B1, and one B
course in economics, commercial law, or commercial geography, prerequisite
(but with the permission of the instructor, this course and Government B1 may
be taken together).—The nature, sources, and development of international law;
the scope of existing international government; the causes of modern wars;
the problem of preserving peace (peace projects of the past, the adequacy of
arbitral machinery, recent proposals); international economic relations; the
problem of backward peoples; the foreign policy of the United States.—Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday, 11.30-12.30. Minor Hall. Adjunct Professor Rogers
and Mr. Hart.
Government C2: State and Municipal Government: Government B1
and one B course in economics, commercial law, or commercial geography, prerequisite.—The
problems of reconstructing state government, the trend of constitutional
development, and the political theories involved; the causes and
characteristics of urban growth and a description of municipal government in
the United States and Europe. Adjunct Professor Rogers and Mr. Hart
Omitted in 1918-1919.
For Graduates.
Government D1: Politics and Jurisprudence.—Various concepts of the
state, of sovereignty, and of political obligation; American political theories;
the nature, sources, and forms of law, and its philosophical and sociological
aspect.—Hours by appointment. Adjunct Professor Rogers.
Government D2: Constitutional Aspects of Social and Economic Problems.—The
constitutional limitations on governmental action with respect to
property and industry; labor problems, the regulation of corporations, interstate
commerce, social legislation, the extension of federal authority, etc.—
Hours by appointment. Adjunct Professor Rogers. Omitted in 1918-1919.
The following are courses of research. Competent students are guided in
the intensive and methodical investigation of selected topics, and the results
are presented for discussion. The members of the teaching staff of the School
will combine to give guidance and instruction. Hours by appointment.
Economics D1. Professor Page.
Government D3. Adjunct Professor Rogers.
Commercial Geography D1. Adjunct Professor Bardin.
For summer-school courses in government on which college credit is
allowed, see page 217.
