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WAR'S ECONOMIC PHASES STUDIED IN NEW COURSE
Will Analyze Changes in Economics Incurred by War, With Emphasis on Present Conflict
Plans for a course on "Economic Aspects of War" to be given in the second semester were revealed yesterday by Seymour E. Harris '20, associate professor of Economics, following approval by the Faculty Committee on Instruction.
Harris said, "This course will analyze the rapid dislocation of economic variables that occur in war times, and during the transition to peace. War economics is a branch of economics like Industrial Organization or Money and Banking, giving the department a chance to use Economics in the treatment of problems that face the world today."
Contents of the Course
The course will use the tools of economic analysis, applying them to the present problem. Economics of past wars; market organization, price control and rationing; money and banking in war times; the relation of money and public and private capital markets; and the relation of war to economic fluctuations will be dealt with in the lectures and reading.
Included in the discussion will be a study of the effects of war on international balance of payments, on the distribution of gold and on commercial policy; repercussions on agriculture; methods of finance in the war and post-war periods; effects of war upon the distribution of income and wealth; trade unionism, money and real wages and employment in war times; and, finally, transition to peace.
Harris will be in charge of the course. Professor Harold H. Burbank, Professor William L. Crum, Professor Alvin H. Hansen, Professor Edward S. Mason, Professor Joseph H. Schumpeter, Professor Sumner H. Slichter, Professor John H. Williams, and Paul M. Sweezy '32, instructor in Economics, will share in the teaching.
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