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This is what economic discourse look like in 1954. Letter from my dad who was a professor at Harvard at the time to Charles Kindleberger. 
Who is an acceptance letter in the journal Economic Development. The editor apologises that although the manuscript is accepted in July 1955 the paper not may not be published before May 1956.
My dad writing the Dean of Harvard in 1955 asking if they could set up a “program of study in the field of economic development.”
When face-to-face failed, they wrote a letter in 1952.
Gerald Meier (coauthor with my Love, Dad of a 1957 textbook on trade & development) writing about how different Oxford (Univ. College) was to Harvard. Took courses with Hicks, Jewkes,Henderson, Toynbee, Balogh
Chit chat between the two hot shot young things - mentions Straffa,Meade, Hayak, Harriet Taylor, cost of living and the Tories. @kevinhorourke
REStud 1950 acknowledgement of my dad’s submission of his eventually famous article “the new welfare economics and gains in international trade”
Acceptance letter QJE 1959
My Dad, being a good Catholic, sought & received permission to read Marx’s Works from archdiocese of Boston!
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But note that it is time-limited to the academic year of 1953 1954!
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But note that it is time-limited to the academic year of 1953 1954!
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@kevinhorourke @D_A_Irwin
My father wrote the archbishop about the difficulties that Catholic students had at Harvard in the early 1950s.
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@AdamPosen @kevinhorourke
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HARVARD scholarship in 1946.
AER rejection letter, 1953 style
Getting published in the 1950s.
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Draft of my father’s letter to Paul Samuelson asking him if the review of economic studies would be interested in his article
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Draft of my father’s letter to Paul Samuelson asking him if the review of economic studies would be interested in his article
Here Paul Samuelson letter to my Dad 1954; very familiar! About His Principles text revision.
ARR rejection 1965
