Harvard notebook, with notes from courses taught by Prof. F.W. Taussig and Prof. Joseph Schumpeter

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Steiner's class notebook with his notes from two Harvard courses: Ec. 11, pages 5-58 (Prof. Taussig, economic theory, dated 1927 Sept.-Oct.) and Ec. 15, pages 215-265 (Prof. Schumpeter, dated 1927 Oct.).

Topics in Taussig's course (as captured by Steiner's notes) include: capitalism, business profits, wages, wage-fund doctrine. Individual historic figures mentioned include David Ricardo and John Elliott Cairnes.

Topics in Schumpeter's course (as captured by Steiner's notes) include: history of economic thought; psychology and social motives of economics; Schumpeter's opinions about contemporary economic theories, including the German Historical School, New Economic Theorists, Institutionalists, Austrian School, and American and Swedish developments; rationalism; materialistic individualism ("it does not exist"); capitalism; and many other topics. Individual historic figures mentioned include Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Alfred Marshall, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Franz Oppenheimer, and others.

Volume's interior cover records "This book belongs to Joseph Steiner, 42 Dunster Hall, Cambridge, Class of '28".

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