Reading list for economics of education and know-how. The following reading listing comes from a Harvard course on the economics of education and know-how supplied by assistant professor Samuel S. Bowles in the spring semester of the 1967-sixty eight tutorial year. Bowles was 28 years younger then. Here is a hyperlink to his Santa Fe Institute webpage. Only the pages of the syllabus with the studying lists were submitted to the Harvard library for the purpose of placing books on reserve. Not included have been the couple of paragraphs of motivation/description for each of the seven sections of the course. I had to insert approximate titles for sections IV and VII and have put those words between square brackets. Samuel Bowles, Planning Educational Systems for Economic Growth. Half course (spring term). Attention will probably be given to the economics of the training process, Mind Guard the idea and implications of innovation, the effects of education and technological change on the distribution of revenue and the function of schooling and technological change in economic growth.
Relevant case studies and current policy issues associated to the United States and underdeveloped nations might be thought of. Source: Harvard University. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Courses of Instruction, Harvard and Radcliffe, 1967-68, p. I. THE DISTRIBUTION OF Income - Recent U.S. A. Batchelder, "Decline in the Relative Income of Negro Men," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November, 1964, pp. H. Miller, Rich Man, Poor Man, chapters 1, 2, 4-6, pp. I. Kravis, "Relative Income Shares the truth is and Theory," American Economic Review, 1959, pp. R. Lampman, The Share of Top Wealth-Holders in National Wealth, chapter 1, pp. 1-26