At the beginning of the 1980s, Ed Tower, an economics professor at Duke University, began publishing with the Eno River Press volumes of syllabuses from economics courses around the world. Each volume contained syllabuses from a particular field—history of economics, development economics, urban and regional economics, and so on. Professor Tower continued his project into the mid-1990s. In 2020, he donated his collection of volumes to the HOPE Center.
Four of the volumes covered the history of economics. The four volumes have now been digitized and are available for use. The syllabuses are from courses taught by a number of prominent figures in the field.
William Baumol, History of Economic Thought, Princeton University, 1978
George Stigler, History of Economic Thought, University of Chicago, 1989–90
Selected syllabuses from non-history courses have also been digitized.
Orley Ashenfelter, Econometrics: A Mathematical Approach, Princeton University, Fall 1994
Orley Ashenfelter and John Di Nardo, Economics of Labor, Princeton University, Fall 1994–95
Olivier Blanchard, Macroeconomic Theory III, MIT, Fall 1992
Olivier Blanchard, Macroeconomics I, MIT, Spring 1995
James Buchanan and Viktor Vanberg, Economic Philosophy, George Mason University, Spring 1990
Peter A. Diamond, Social Insurance, MIT, Spring 1981
Martin Feldstein and Alan Auerbach, Public Finance II, Harvard University, Spring 1981
Duncan Foley, Marxist Economic Theory, Barnard College, 1979
Benjamin Friedman, Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, Harvard University, Fall 1994
Daniel Hamermesh, Introduction to Labor Economics, University of Texas, Fall 1994
Arnold Harberger and Robert Topel, Graduate Price Theory II, University of Chicago, Winter 1980
Milton Harris, Game Theory, Information, and Uncertainty, University of Chicago, Spring 1995
James Heckman, Analysis of Discrete and Longitudinal Data, University of Chicago, Spring 1981
Hendrik Houthakker, Securities, Options, and Futures, Harvard University, Fall 1992
Paul Krugman, International Economics I (reading list), MIT, c.1980
N. Gregory Mankiw, Macroeconomics, Harvard University, Spring 1995
Debra Meyerson, Work in the 1990s: The Organization of Women and Men, Stanford University, c.1995
Thomas Schelling, Economic Principles and Public Policy, Harvard University, Spring 1981
George Stigler, Public Control of Economic Activity, University of Chicago, Fall 1989
Joseph Stiglitz, Theory of Information, Princeton University, January 1980
Arthur M. Sullivan, Urban Economics, University of California–Davis, c.1990
James Tobin, Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, Yale University, Spring 1994
Arnold Zellner, Introduction to Econometrics, University of Chicago, Fall 1994
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