Word: fogel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this presented some problems for the Economics Department, particularly because there was no way to recreate a general exam comparable to the one Fogel would have taken 50 years ago. "Most of what he studied was pre-Keynesian economics," David G. Hartman, assistant professor of Economics and Fogel's tutor, said this week. "It was impossible to write a fair general exam, so he wrote a senior paper instead...
...Fogel sat in on some lectures, including Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," which was Economics A in 1928. He read the standard Ec 10 textbooks and readings...
Tutorials were an important part of Fogel's program. "President Lowell had just introduced tutorials in the '20s," Fogel observed, adding that he was glad to see they were still part of the curriculum...
...guru of that day was Albert Marshall, who was the teacher of Keynes, the patron saint of liberal economics," Fogel said. "There weren't any liberals in those days, they were all conservatives...
...Marxism was hardly a college subject at that time," Fogel recalls. "No one in Economics was interested in it." It was not until the New Deal years that Marxism began attracting attention as an economic theory, Fogel said...