Contains five sets of lectures taken by Glenn Johnson as a doctoral student in economics at the University of Chicago during 1946-7. This volume includes notes by Mark Ladenson at Northwestern and from a faculty seminar at MSU on comparative method.
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Contains five sets of lectures taken by Glenn Johnson as a doctoral student in economics at the University of Chicago during 1946-7. This volume includes notes by Mark Ladenson at Northwestern and from a faculty seminar at MSU on comparative method.
Volume 26C contains five sets of lectures taken by Glenn Johnson as a doctoral student in economics at the University of Chicago during 1946-7. Johnson went on to become a leading professor of agricultural economics at Michigan State University. At Chicago his professors were am…
1. The origins of Douglas's production function research program and his initial time series studies -- 2. The Douglas-Mendershausen debate and the cross-section studies -- 3. Theoretical and econometric challenges of the early 1940s, and Douglas's final word -- 4. Three importa…
The Cobb-Douglas regression, a statistical technique developed to estimate what economists called a 'production function', was introduced in the late 1920s. For several years, only economist Paul Douglas and a few collaborators used the technique, while vigorously defending it a…
"At the 1927 meetings of the American Economic Association, Paul Douglas presented a paper entitled "A Theory of Production", which he had coauthored with Charles Cobb. The paper proposed the now familiar Cobb-Douglas function as a general mathematical representation of the rela…
"At the 1927 meetings of the American Economic Association, Paul Douglas presented a paper entitled "A Theory of Production", which he had coauthored with Charles Cobb. The paper proposed the now familiar Cobb-Douglas function as a general mathematical representation of the rela…
The Cobb-Douglas regression, a statistical technique developed to estimate what economists called a 'production function', was introduced in the late 1920s. For several years, only economist Paul Douglas and a few collaborators used the technique, while vigorously defending it a…
The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays. The articles highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution (Paul Trescott), John Ryan on minimum wage legislation, a symposium on Clement Juglar, and a compar…
