Alvin Harvey Hansen writings and publications
Overview
Alvin Harvey Hansen (1887-1975), an economist, was the Littauer Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. His work focused on Keynesian economics in the United States. Writings, publications, and related records in this collection document Alvin Harvey Hansen's academic contributions to economics from 1918 to 1957.
Dates
- Creation: [circa 1918-1957]
Creator
Researcher Access
Open for research.
Extent
1.66 cubic feet (5 document boxes, 1 flat box, 1 volume, 1 pamphlet binder)The writings and publications in this collection document Alvin Harvey Hansen's academic contributions to economics from 1918 to 1957 including his discussions of Keynesian economics, business cycles and economic stabilization, fiscal policy, economic stagnation, interest rates, monetary policy, and inflation control through changes in tax rates, the money supply, and wage-price controls. Additionally, the collection contains a scrapbook documenting Hansen's involvement with and work of the Commission of Inquiry on National Policy in International Economic Relations. An autographed copy of John Kenneth Galbraith's work on the American economy in the 1950s, Economics and the Art of Controversy, is also found in the collection.
Biographical note on Alvin Harvey Hansen
Alvin Harvey Hansen (1887-1975), an economist, was the Littauer Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. His work focused on Keynesian economics in the United States. Hansen was an advisor to the government on economic policy, and he helped create the Council of Economic Advisors and the Social Security system. Hansen taught at the University of Wisconsin (1915-1916), Brown University (1916-1919), the University of Minnesota (1919-1937). He joined the Harvard faculty in 1937 as the Littauer Professor of Political Economy, retiring from Harvard in 1957. Hansen wrote fifteen books covering a wide range of topics on economics, including an account of the Bretton Woods Conference, which established the World Bank. Hansen taught at the University of Bombay and various American universities after leaving Harvard. He died in 1975.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into four series:
- General folder, [circa 1918-1957]
- Reprints, pamphlets, biographies, and book reviews, [circa 1918-1957]
- Scrapbook on Commission of Inquiry on National Policy in International Economic Relations, 1933-1934
- Economics and the Art of Controversy, by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1955
Acquisition Information
Specific acquisition information is not available.
Processing Information
This finding aid was created in January 2022 by Dominic P. Grandinetti.
Information for this finding aid was assembled from legacy paper inventories, reference sources, and container management data. The collection was not re-examined.
Dates supplied by the archivist appear in brackets.
Alma ID
99155868882503941
Creator
- Title
- Hansen, Alvin H. (Alvin Harvey), 1887-1975. Alvin Harvey Hansen writings and publications, [circa 1918-1957]: an inventory
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hua02022
Repository Details
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