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Guide to the Frank Whitson Fetter Papers, 1902-1992

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Descriptive Summary

Title

Frank Whitson Fetter Papers, 1902-1992

Creator

Fetter, Frank Whitson (1889-1992)

Extent

114 Linear Feet
68,400 Items

Repository

Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

Language

English.

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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

A portion of the Publications Series is restricted.

In addition, patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.

Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.

Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.

Use Restrictions

The copyright interests in the Fetter papers have been transferred to Duke University. For further information, see the section on copyright in the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library or consult a reference archivist.

Provenance

The professional papers of Frank Whitson Fetter (1889-1992), economist, university professor and government advisor, were bequeathed to the Duke University Library by Frank Whitson Fetter in his will in 1991.

Processing Information

Processed by: Tara Tappert, Denise Dolan, and John Gribble

Completed in 1992

Encoded by Stephen D. Miller

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

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Biographical Note

1899, May 22	Born, San Francisco, Calif.
1916	Graduate of Princeton High School, Princeton, NJ
1920	A.B., Political Science, Swarthmore College (Phi Beta Kappa)
1922	A.M., Princeton University
1924	A.M., Harvard University
1926	Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University
1928-1934	Assistant Professor and Professor of Economics, Princeton University
1929, Jan. 14	Married Elizabeth Pollard (d. 1977)
1934	Member of Commission on Cuban Affairs, organized by the Foreign Policy Association
1934-1948	Associate Professor and Professor of Economics, Haverford College
1937-1938	Guggenheim fellowship (Research on banking in Great Britain)
1939, summer	Economist for the Export-Import Bank of Washington
1940, summer	Economic Advisor to the Central Bank of Ecuador
1943-1946	Economic Advisor with the Lend-Lease Administration and the Department of State; ten months spent in India
1948-1967	Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
1950, summer	Advisor to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
1951, summer	Advisor to the Department of State, Division of German Affairs, and member of the American Delegation to London for the Preliminary Conference on German Debts
1967-1968	Visiting Haney Professor, Dartmouth College
1978, Apr.	Married Elizabeth Miller Stabler (d. 1985)
1991	Died

Frank Whitson Fetter served as a member of the following organizations: American Economic Association (Executive Committee, 1944-1946), Midwest Economic Association (President, 1952), and National Bureau of Economic Research (Director, 1950, 1973; Chairman, 1965-1967).

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Collection Overview

The papers of Frank Whitson Fetter span the years 1902-1992, with the bulk occurring from the 1920s through 1980. Included are correspondence, diaries and journals, college and university course materials, published books, articles and book reviews, and all the supporting research for these publications. There is also printed material, as well as additional research materials on index cards and microfilm. The files contain fellowship and grant applications, conference and seminar programs, notes and texts of lectures and speeches, as well as financial papers, a scrapbook and pictures. The collection highlights the academic and consulting experiences (particularly the Kemmerer Commission) of a twentieth-century American economist, and documents his intellectual development as an historian of economic thought. Centering on Fetter's publications and research, and to a lesser extent his teaching, the largest series in the collection are the Publications Series and the General Research Series. His publications and research focused on the study of the history of economics, in particular inflation and international economic thought. As reflected in the Correspondence Series, he corresponded with economists, academics, and writers. There is a relatively small amount of material concerning Fetter's personal life.

Fetter's research interests and publications were wide-ranging, and are documented in both the Publications and General Research Series. His articles and pamphlets from 1921-1990 address such topics as Irish and Latin American currency, economists and their relationship to politics, as well as trade, tariff and hard money issues. The articles focus mainly on the economic history of Great Britain in the 19th century, including the rise and fall of various economic trends and theories in the British financial system. One of the Kemmerer missions provided the basis for Fetter's first book, Monetary Inflation in Chile (1931), which foreshadowed his enduring interest in the causes of monetary instability. When later interests changed his focus to classical economics, and in particular to British economic thought from Adam Smith to John Stuart Mill, he illuminated the classic controversies over money and banking which at the time of the Napoleonic Wars shaped the economic theories and institutional structures that served Britain and the world before 1914. Such ideas are illustrated in Fetter's Development of British Monetary Orthodoxy 1797-1875 (1965) and The Economist in Parliament: 1780-1868 (1980). These are just two of the books for which the Publications Series holds drafts and final copies of manuscripts, revision notes, English and foreign language editions, background research, and correspondence. Manuscripts, research and correspondence are also available for Fetter's unpublished books, one dealing with the role of foreign capital in assisting developing countries, and the other concerning the rise of England's Overend, Gurney bank, and its subsequent financial collapse in 1866.

The General Research Series is a complement to the Publications Series, as Fetter used these research files for many different projects. The Alphabetical Files Sub-Series, organized by topic, reflect Fetter's personal and professional interests, and holds the body of reference material Fetter collected throughout his career. Much of this material deals with English banking history, and includes files on Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, the bullion controversy, and tariff issues. Examples of other interests are also in these files, including documents of Fetter's debunking efforts concerning the inscriptions on the Christ of the Andes monument and on the Jefferson Memorial. Other materials of interest are the de Tocqueville files, and his efforts at cataloging the economic references in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. A second alphabetical series of index cards and microfilm contain research on many topics of interest to Fetter. The Research on Published Articles and Pamphlets Sub-Series complements the Published Articles and Pamphlets Sub-Series in the Publications Series and contains correspondence and background research for the articles and book reviews.

In addition to research, Fetter's career involved a great deal of international consulting outside academia. He eagerly accepted commissions for projects throughout the world, and in the 1920s participated in the missions led by the Princeton economist, E.W. Kemmerer (known as the “money doctor”), advising numerous Latin American governments and others on their monetary problems. The Commissions, Consulting and Government Services Series includes the materials used to produce various economic reports for the foreign governments of Guatemala, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Poland, and China. Other files contain Fetter's personal diaries, detailing how he spent his time while commissioned abroad. Photographs taken during consulting visits are in the Pictures Series. He worked collaboratively with the US. government and the government of India, Cuba, and Germany to secure economic stability for each of these countries. In the early 1950s Fetter was a State Department advisor on the German Debt Settlement. Fetter also testified before United States Congressional and Governmental Committees in the 1950s. In 1974, an oral history interview conducted by someone from the Harry S. Truman Library detailed Fetter's years of consulting and government service regarding international monetary issues.

Not only was Fetter a consultant, he also taught economics at Princeton, Haverford College, Northwestern University, and, upon his retirement, at Dartmouth College, where he adapted his Northwestern University course material for his classes. Fetter occasionally taught or advised at institutions such as Swarthmore College, the School for Advanced International Studies, and the University of Wisconsin. Both the Northwestern University Series and the Teaching Sub-Series of the Professional Files Series highlight such Fetter courses as “Money and Banking,” “History of Economic Thought,” “International Investment,” and “Latin American Culture and Civilization.” Also of interest are the files on the Ford Foundation Faculty Research Summer Seminar in 1957, where Fetter taught “International Economic Problems and Economic Development” to faculty from various colleges and universities throughout the Midwest. Fetter served on various Northwestern University committees such as the Budget Committee (1954) and the Honor System Committee (1963-1964).

His Student Papers Sub-Series in the Personal Files Series and Teaching Files Sub-Series in the Professional Files Series describe his educational experiences both as a student and teacher. The Teaching Sub-Series chiefly covers Fetter's teaching experiences before his appointment to Northwestern University, with just a few files during and after the Northwestern years. Fetter applied for and received a number of fellowships and grants throughout his career including a grant from the American Philosophical Society in the 1980s for research on the Overend, Burney Bank. These files are found in the Fellowships and Grants Sub-Series of the Professional Files Series.

Letters to and from colleagues with whom Fetter was closely associated, as well as correspondence with friends and family members including his father, the Princeton economist, Frank Albert Fetter, can be found in the General Correspondence Series. Among his correspondents were J. Garner Anthony, Robert D.C. Black, J. Chester Bradley, R.C. Brooks, Colin Campbell, Lino Castillejo, S.G. Checkland, (Chick) Eagen, Luther Evans, Max Farrand, Milton Friedman, Craufurd Goodwin, Barry Gordon, Frank Graham, Keith Horsefield, Hollard (Ho) Hunter, Per Jacobsson, E.W. Kemmerer, John Maynard Keynes, Charles Kindleberger, Samuel Loescher, Vernon Mund, Leslie Pressnell, Lord Robbins, Richard Sayers, Franklin Scott, Joseph B. Shane, Frederick Jackson Turner, F.W. Taussig, Alan Valentine, Jacob Viner, C.R. Whittlesey and Harold Williamson. Other letter writers of note are E.M. Forster, Upton Sinclair, and Gore Vidal. The Midwest Economics Association Sub-Series consists of correspondence documenting Fetter's involvement with the association and his term as president in 1952. The References and Recommendations Sub-Series, the last in the series, include letters written by Fetter, as well as letters requesting recommendations, and letters thanking him for writing.

Varying aspects of Fetter's personal and professional life are reflected in this collection in both the Personal Files Series and the Professional Files Series. The Alphabetical Files Sub-Series in both series highlight his personal and professional interests. An enthusiastic sportsman, Fetter's canoe and cross-country ski trips are represented, as is his involvement in forestry and conservation through such groups as the Hanover Conservation Council and the Izaak Walton League of America. An active member of the Religious Society of Friends, Fetter's interest in peace concerns is evident throughout his life. He participated in the Institute of International Relations sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, held at Haverford College in 1934 and 1935. These files are located in the Teaching Sub-Series of the Professional Files Series. During the 1970s, Fetter also supported peace efforts during the Vietnam conflict, participating in letter writing efforts to the U.S. Congress. His associations with a number of professional organizations are represented in the files of the American Economic Association, the Midwest Economic Association, the History of Political Economy, and the National Bureau of Economic Research. During the 1930s, he also wrote a number of editorials (primarily on gold issues) for the St. Louis Dispatch, which are also included here. Other complementing sub-series in the Personal and Professional Files Series are the Travel files and the Conference and Seminars files and the Lectures and Speeches files. Fetter traveled widely, sometimes to attend language school courses, and other times to attend conferences or deliver lectures throughout the world. Personal information, including his marriage to Elizabeth Pollard in 1929, and his second marriage to Elizabeth Stabler in 1978, are a part of the Biographical Material Sub-Series in the Personal Files Series. Financial information is found in the Financial Papers Sub-Series of the same series.

Fetter was a consistent diarist, and the Calendars, Diaries and Journals Series records many events of the author's life. The earliest diaries document Fetter's 1917-1918 work with the New York Shipbuilding Yard, and his 1920 trip and work throughout the Western United States. There are other miscellaneous travel journals, including those of Elizabeth (Polly) P. Fetter from her 1929 trip to China and her 1937 trip to England. There is also a straight run of calendars from 1967-1989, and an Address Book Sub-Series containing the addresses of friends and colleagues throughout the United States and abroad.

The Pictures Series contains personal images as well as documentary photographs of Fetter's consulting work. Included are images from the commissions in South and Central America, in Poland and China, from his consulting work in Cuba for the Commission of Cuban Affairs (1934), in Ecuador for the Export-Import Bank (1939), and in India for the Lend-Lease Administration (1943-1944). Yet the majority of photographs are from Fetter's trip to Russia in 1930, taken mainly in Kazan and Moscow. Other travel photographs include those taken at the Economic History meeting in Switzerland in 1965, the Economic History meeting in Switzerland in 1965, several canoe trips, and a Colorado ski trip in 1976. There are also photographs taken at Northwestern University in 1956 and Dartmouth College in 1968.

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Subject Headings

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.

Fetter, Frank Whitson, 1899-
Economists--Correspondence.
Commerce.
International trade.
World politics.
International economic relations.
Monetary policy--Great Britain.
Monetary policy--South America.
Finance.
Banks and banking, Central.
Economic policy.
Economics--Study and teaching.
United States--Economic policy.
Europe--Economic policy.
United States--Politics and government.
Diaries

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Detailed Description of Collection

Correspondence, 1902-1992, undated (bulk 1950-1973).

Arranged chronologically.

Box 1

1902-1948
(28 folders)

Box 2

1949-1960, Nov.
(23 folders)

Box 3

1960, Dec.- 1970, Sept.
(38 folders)

Box 4

1970, Oct.- 1992 and undated

Christmas cards and letters, 1926-1969

Box 5

Christmas cards and letters, 1970-1991 and undated
(4 folders)

Christmas cards correspondence list, undated
(2 folders)

Frank Albert Fetter Estate, 1949-1963
(2 folders)

Midwest Economics Association:

1951-1971 (5 folders)

Woody Thompson Fund, 1956-1966

References and recommendations, 1937-1988
(6 folders)

Calendars, Diaries and Journals, 1917-1989.

1917-1921
(2 folders)

Box 6

1920-1968
(31 folders)

Box 7

1969-1989 and undated
(14 folders)

Address books:

Europe, undated

undated (2 folders)

Commissions, Consulting and Government Services, 1924-1974 (bulk 1924-1930).

Documents Fetter's work as an economic advisor to countries throughout the world, as well as his United States government service. Includes charts, clippings, correspondence, diaries and journals, graphs, printed material, reports, and research notes. Consists of fourteen subseries, each divided by country and topic. See the Pictures Series for photographs taken on missions.

Kemmerer Commission, 1924-1930

Bolivia:

Clippings, 1927

Correspondence, 1927, Mar.-June

Printed material, misc., 1927

Report, 1927

Brazil:

Correspondence, 1926, Jan.

Diaries and journals, 1926, Jan.

Chile:

Banking laws, 1855-1923 (2 folders)

Business cards, 1927

Charts/graphs, 1900-1925

Clippings and clipping translations, 1876-1927 (3 folders)

Conference notes/memorandum, 1926-1927, Aug. (2 folders)

Correspondence, 1925, July- 1927, Sept. (3 folders)

Diaries and journals, 1925 (2 folders)

Miscellaneous, 1927

Notes:

Banks and banking, 1919-1925

Government reports, 1876-1900

Research, 1895-1925

Printed material, 1914-1923

Box 8

Printed material, 1924-1927 (2 folders)

Reports, 1925, Oct. 5

China:

Address book, 1929

Clippings, 1929-1930 (3 folders)

Correspondence, 1929

Diaries and journals, 1929

Financial papers, 1929

Maps, 1929

Miscellaneous, 1929-1930 (2 folders)

Notes, 1929-1930 (2 folders)

Press releases, 1929

Printed material, 1925-1935 (1 folder, 3 vols.)

Box 9

Chile:

Printed material, 1925-1935 (1 vol.)

Reports, 1929

Kemmerer Commission

Ecuador:

Address book, 1927

Clippings, 1926

Correspondence, 1926, Oct.- 1927, Feb. (2 folders)

Printed material, 1923-1927 (9 folders)

Writings and speeches, 1926

Guatemala:

Banking laws, 1925

Correspondence, 1924, July-Aug.

Diaries and journals, 1924, June-Sept. (2 folders)

Poland:

Clippings, miscellaneous, 1926

Correspondence, 1926, June-Sept. (2 folders)

Box 10

Poland:

Printed material, 1926

Writings and speeches, 1926, Aug.-Oct.

South Africa:

Miscellaneous, 1920s

Scrapbook, 1925-1927 (1 vol.)

South America:

Visa, 1925

A. M. Lamport Commission, 1928

Latvia:

Address books, clipping, 1928

Correspondence, 1928, Aug.

Diaries and journals, 1928

Report, 1928, Aug.

Commission on Cuban Affairs, 1934

Cuba:

Business cards, 1934

Correspondence, 1934, June-July

Miscellaneous, 1934

Export/Import Bank, 1939

Ecuador:

Correspondence, 1939-1940, Sept. (2 folders)

Diaries and journals, 1939

Notes, 1939

Printed material, 1939 (2 folders)

Reports, 1939

Import/Export Bank/Central Bank of Ecuador, 1940

Ecuador:

Clippings, 1939-1940

Notes, miscellaneous, 1939

Printed material, 1928-1940 (6 folders)

Box 11

Ecuador: Printed material, 1940

Central Bank of Ecuador

Ecuador:

Clippings, 1940

Diaries and journals, 1940

Printed material, notes, 1940 (2 folders)

Miscellaneous, 1940

Reports, notes, 1940 (3 folders)

American Hemisphere Office, 1941-1942

Ecuador:

Correspondence, 1942, Feb.-Apr.

Map, 1937

Miscellaneous, clipping, 1941-1942

Reports, memoranda, notes, 1942

Lend/Lease Administration, 1943-1946

India:

Application and permit for employment, 1943-1944

Clippings, 1943-1944, 1953

Correspondence, 1943-1944

Diaries and journals, 1943

Miscellaneous, 1944-1946

Notes, miscellaneous, 1944

Printed material, undated

Poetry, notes, 1943-1944

Reports, notes, 1941-1943 (2 folders)

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1948-1950

Correspondence, 1950, May-Sept.

Notes, 1948-1950

Report:

Development Corporations--Their Origin, Structure and Operation, 1950 (2 folders)

1951, Apr. 10

State Department: German Debt Settlement, 1950-1953

Correspondence, 1950, Oct.-1953, Apr. (4 folders)

Miscellaneous, 1951-1952

Reports, memoranda, 1951

Statement before House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Searle Bills 101 and 102, Springfield, Illinois, 1953, May 19

Statement before Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, 1955, Nov. 9

National Defense Executive Reserve, Department of State: Correspondence, miscellaneous, 1957-1961

Oral History interview: Government service, 1974

U.S. Department of State: Correspondence: Employment, 1941-1942, 1946

Northwestern University, 1947-1968.

Arranged in three subseries: Courses (1947-1967), Committees (1954-1964), and Miscellaneous (1960-1966). Courses, arranged alphabetically, include assignments, bibliographies, syllabi, exams, grade books, handwritten and typed research notes, as well as correspondence and memos regarding his classes. Files documenting Fetter's committee work and other university activities contain correspondence, research notes, reports, and programs.

Courses

Ford Summer Seminar:

Correspondence:

1957-1961

Seminar attendees, 1957-1958

Memos, 1957-1958

Notes: miscellaneous, 1957

Grade books, 1948-1951

Box 12

Grade books, 1965-1965 (5 folders)

History of Economic Theory (ECD18):

Bibliography:

History of Economic Analysis, 1958, undated

International Economic papers, 1963, undated

Exams, grades, miscellaneous, syllabus, 1962-1967, undated (4 folders)

Notes:

Economic growth, 1958-1967, undated

History of Economics, 1955-1966, undated

Manderville and Hume, 1953-1963, undated

Mathematical Economics, Cournot, Gossen, Jevons, 1963, 1967

Miscellaneous, 1935-1980s, undated

Petty, 1956-1967, undated

Ricardo, 1921-1967, undated

Ruskin, etc., 1934, 1966, undated

Young, Arthur

Reading lists, miscellaneous, 1966, 1967

History of Economic Thought (EcC20):

Class records, 1949-1963, undated

Notes: Karl Marx, 1953-1967, undated

History of Economic Thought/Theory (EcC20, EcD18)

Clippings, miscellaneous, 1962, undated

Notes:

Cantillion, 1953-1954, 1967, undated

Medieval economic thought, 1953, 1967

Physiocrats, 1931-1956, undated

International Economic Policy (EcD61)

Bibliography:

Doctoral thesis in International Relations and Economic Development, 1946-1956, 1957

Economic development, undated

Clippings: Reparations and War Debt, undated

Exams, assignments, miscellaneous, 1961-1963, 1966, undated

Notes:

Adjustment to tariff reductions, 1962-1963, 1965, undated

Alliance for Progress, 1962-1963, undated

Balance of payments, 1961, 1966, undated

Brookings BOP study, reading lists, 1963-1965

Commercial treaties, 1950-1966, undated

International Economic Policy (EcD61)

Notes:

The Economic “Miracles”: Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, 1966-1967, undated

General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1965-1966, undated

Import Reducing and Export Increasing proposals, 1959

International Income Comparisons, 1957-1963, undated

Measuring Height of Tariff, 1965, undated

Rise of the New Lending Agencies, 1947-1965, undated

South American and Central American Common Market, 1965

Stabilization of Export Earnings, 1962-1963, undated

Terms of Trade, 1956-1965, undated

Trade Expansion Act of 1962, 1962-1968

Opening lecture, 1963, 1966

Readings: European Free Trade area, 1955-1965, undated

International Economic Problems (Dartmouth) (EC49): Assignments, exams, grade book, readings, 1925-1949, undated

International Economic Problems (Dartmouth)/Policy (EC49, EcD61):

Clippings, Common Market, 1964, undated

Notes and readings: East-West Trade, 1960-1968

International Economic Problems (Dartmouth)/Policy (EC49, EcD61):

Notes:

European Common Market, 1959-1968, undated

Good tariff, infant industry, Argument, 1963, undated

Miscellaneous, readings, 1966-1968, undated

Preferential tariffs, 1963-1968, undated

Private boycotts on International Trade, local legislation, 1946-1968, undated

Tariff classification, 1963-1968, undated

Tariff Commission investigation, 1967-1968, undated

Box 13

International Economic Problems (Dartmouth)/Policy (EC49, EcD61):

Notes: Theory of Customs Unions, 1962-1968, undated

International Economic Relations (EcC10): Photograph, readings, 1948

International Economic Relations/Value and Distribution (EcC10, EcD1):

Assignments, syllabi, 1947,summer

International Investment (EcC60, EcC51):

Exams, 1952-1961

Miscellaneous, 1948-1951, undated

Notes:

America's Experience as a Debtor and Creditor Country, 1949-1961, undated

Capital Intensity and Foreign Investment, 1935-1960, undated

Economic theory, 1923, undated

Export Industries and Debt Payment, typing of loan proceeds, 1951-1958, undated

Foreign language, 1962, undated

The Forms of Foreign Investment, 1953-1956

Foreign Investment,

International Finance, 1922-1956, undated

Keynes, 1932-1950, undated

The Motives for Foreign Investment, 1936-1958, undated

International Investment (EcC60, EcC51):

Notes:

Adam Smith on Foreign Trade, undated

Transfer of Foreign Loans, 1949-1961, undated

Opening Lectures, 1953-1960, undated

Readings, Foreign Investments in relation to Capital Industry, 1943-1946

International Trade and Finance (EcB60, EcC06):

Assignments, Miscellaneous, 1962, 1965-1966

Clippings, Foreign Investment (Private), 1927-1937, undated

Exams:

Notes: Sources of information on International Economic Relations, 1962

Readings, miscellaneous, 1957-1966

Notes:

Alternative Methods of Adjustment in Balance of Payments, 1949-1966, undated

Bullion Reports, undated

Customs Valuation, undated

Dumping, undated

The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill, 1959, 1962

Effect on Tariff on Prices, 1962-1966, undated

European Trade Areas, 1959-1966

Foreign Exchange, 1956-1968, undated

International Competitive Situation of Steel, 1933-1966, undated

Main features of U.S. Foreign Trade, 1965-1968

Main features of International World Trade, 1965

Miscellaneous, 1952

Price of Gold, 1960, 1962

Reciprocal Trade Agreements program, 1961-1966, undated

Silver, undated

Steel Imports, 1962-1968, undated

Sterling area: Rise of Imperial Preference, 1956-1960

Trade Agreements program, 1960

Opening lecture: Special Features of International Trade and Finance, 1933-1966, undated

Latin American Culture and Civilization (C1): Notes, syllabus, 1949-1950 undated

Medill School of Journalism: Editorial Operations (E02): Notes for talk: European Common Market, 1958-1965, undated

Monetary Institutions and Policies (EcD31):

Exam, readings, syllabus, 1964-19677 (2 folders)

Notes:

American Controversy and the Federal Reserve, 1962-1964, undated

Bagehot Principle, 1962--1963, 1966, undated

The Bank Act of 1844, 1962-1966, undated

Committee on Money and Credit, 1958, 1960-1965, undated

Credit Cards and new forms of Consumer Credit, 1966, undated

Details on Coins and Bank Notes--Counterfeiting, 1963, 1965, undated

Gold Production and Prices, 1964, 1968

Macmillan Report, 1936-1962, undated

Miscellaneous, 1964-1966

Monetary Policy of World War I and the 1920s and 1930s, 1962

Price of Silver, 1962-1967, undated

National Income Distribution (EcC85, EcC23, Ec83,):

Assignments, exams, readings, syllabus, 1950-1960 (2 folders)

Exams, syllabus, 1948-1949

Notes:

Definition of Income, 1948-1954, undated

Government Operations and Transfer Payments, 1952, undated

Miscellaneous, 1948-1954, undated (2 folders)

Sources of Data, 1950-1953

Opening lecture: National Income, 1950-1960

Ph.D. Exams:

History of Theory, 1952-1959

International Economics, 1949-1963, undated

Miscellaneous, 1948-1967

Money and Banking, 1962-1963

Box 14

Problems in Money and Banking (Dartmouth)/Monetary Institutions and Policies (Ec46, EcC31):

Notes:

American Treasure and its consequences, 1963, undated

Aspects of Policies and Institutions, 1962, 1964, undated

The Bullion Controversy, 1932-1967, undated

Bimentalism and the Gold and Silver Commission, 1962-1966, undated

British Experience in World War I and Interwar Years, 1962-1967, undated

The Gold Standard for the Bagehot Principle to 1914, 1966-1967, undated

International Monetary Fund and the Aftermath of World War II, 1962-1967

Monetary Theory and Policy, 1962-1967, undated

Proposals for International Monetary Reform, 1959, 1962-1967, undated (2 folders)

Radcliff Report, 1959-1967, undated

Problems in Money and Banking (Dartmouth) (Ec46):

Assignments, syllabi, 1967-1968

Exams and grades, 1967-1968

Miscellaneous, 1967, undated

Notes:

British Devaluation, 1963, 1967

Book lists, exams, notes, 1962-1968, undated

Problem of Economic Instability (ECB01, B03): Notes: Miscellaneous, 1959

Research Seminar in International Economic Relations and Development:

Miscellaneous, readings, 1952-1966, undated

Scrittori Classici Italiani, undated

Seminar on Methods of Economic Research (Ec83): Readings, syllabus, 1967-1968, undated

Seminar on Methods of Economic Research/Seniors Honor Seminar (Ec83, EcC98):

Notes:

Economic Prediction, 1964-1968, undated

Interpretation of Data, 1966-1968, undated

Senior Honors Seminar (EcC98):

Assignments, readings, syllabus, 1964-1967, undated (2 folders)

Automation, 1962-1964, undated

Bibliography: Spatial studies, 1966

Notes:

Miscellaneous, 1958-1966, undated

Poverty in the United States, 1960-1967, undated (2 folders)

Research Techniques (examples), undated

Significance of Data, 1963-1968, undated

Sources of data, 1963, 1967-1968, undated

Statistical pitfalls, 1964, undated

Unemployment: Aggregate Demand Deficiency--or other causes, 1961-1965, undated

Readings, 1962-1964, undated

Student papers, 1965, 1967

Theory of International Trade (EcD5, EcD60):

Exams, articles, syllabus, 1938-1959, undated (2 folders)

Notes:

Adjustment in balance of payments, 1941-1960, undated

Comparative advantage, 1924-1960, undated

Dependent economy, 1947-1956, undated

Dotlar “Problem,” 1952-1960, undated

Elasticities in international trade, 1950-1957, undated

The Future of Our Trade with Europe, 1949, 1953

Hume on foreign trade, 1931-1932, 1960, undated

Income distribution and International trade, also Heckscher and Ohlin material, 1949-1960, undated

International and inter-regional adjustment (Paish material), 1959-1960, undated

Lecture, correspondence: Comparative Advantage (Leontief Thesis), 1953-1960, undated

Mercantilism and foreign trade, 1932-1960, undated

Terms of trade, 1931-1963, undated

Thornton, Mill, Bastable, Iverson on financial adjustment, 1949-1957, undated

Transfer problem (in particular Ohlin, Keynes, Metzler), 1932-1960, undated

Opening lecture, 1951-1960

Records of course, 1925-1949, undated

Box 15

Tutorial Readings (EcC70):

American Discontent, 1957-1959, undated

Biographical items, 1958, undated

Book Censorship (also movies, press), 1958-1959, undated

Business Education, undated

Causes Celebres (Dreyfuss, etc.), 1948-1961, undated

Civil Liberties, 1957-1959, undated

Classical Literature and History, 1961, undated

Communism in U.S.A., 1957-1959, undated

European Travelers in U.S.A., 1958-1961, undated

Hiss Case and Harry White, 1950-1958, undated

Literature and American Political and Social Problems, 1958, undated

Medicine, hypnotism, and allied topics, 1961

Miscellaneous, 1954-1961, undated

Protestant Reformation, Catholics, 1959-1961, undated

Psychology and Freud, undated

Russian situation, 1958, undated

Science and philosophy of science, 1954-1956, undated

Urban development and planning, 1961, undated

Westward movement, Turner thesis, 1958, undated

Committees

Budget, 1954

Honor System, 1952-1964, undated

Parking, 1957-1961

Retirement, 1963

Miscellaneous

1958-1972

Statistics, 1960-1961

Mars lecture series, 1963-1966, undated

Publications, 1857-1992, undated (bulk, 1940-1979).

This largest series contains all of Fetter's formal writings, both published and unpublished, as well as published writings of interest to him. Published articles, book reviews, books, pamphlets, manuscripts, correspondence, serials, and clippings contained within seven subseries. Contains photocopied research material (RESTRICTED) and transcripts of copied archival material. All research and correspondence for the Articles and Pamphlets Sub-Series is in the Research on Published Articles and Pamphlets Sub-Series of the General Research Series.

Articles of Interest

1857-1942 (11 folders)

Box 16

1943-1958, (16 folders)

Box 17

1958-1966 (13 folders)

Box 18

1966-1976 (15 folders)

Box 19

1976-1991, undated (14 folders)

Box 20

undated (3 folders)

Book Reviews

1933-1954 (13 folders)

Box 21

1956-1977 (3 folders)

Clippings of Interest

Magazine, 1930-1991, undated

Newspaper, 1918-1991, n.d (3 folders)

Obituaries, 1945-1990

Government Documents of Interest

1896-1973 (3 folders)

Published Articles and Pamphlets

1921-1942 (6 folders)

Published Books

Box 22

1940-1990, undated (11 folders)

1931, Monetary Inflation in Chile:

Book, 1931

Book, Spanish edition, 1937

Manuscript draft, 1929, Jan.

Research, Chilean debt, debt payment, 1891: Notes and correspondence

Reviews, 1931-1933, undated

Spanish edition, 1936-1939

Restricted

Box 23

Facing the Facts:

Book, 1932

Correspondence, 1932-1940, undated

Miscellaneous research, 1932, undated

Problems of New Cuba:

Book, 1935

Book, Spanish edition, 1935

Notes and general correspondence, 1934-1935, undated

Fiscal Policies and the American Economy, ed. Kenyon E. Poole; “International Aspects of Fiscal Policy” by Fetter, royalties, 1951

The Irish Pound:

Bibliography, 1958, undated

Book, 1954-1955

Bullion reports, undated

Correspondence, 1933-1956 (2 folders)

Research:

Absentee tax, 1951-1954, undated

Annual register, 1794-1804, undated

Currency research, undated (2 folders)

Debates in Irish Parliament on Restriction, 1797

General, 1793-1804

Huskisson and Irish Affairs, undated

Ireland: Newspapers and Book of Minutes Papers, undated

Irish currency: Newspaper and public record, 1804

Irish exchange rate, undated

Box 24

The Irish Pound:

Research:

Irish situation, undated

Notes on articles and books, 1949-1951, undated

Reviews, reprints, publishing, 1933-1954, undated

Royalties, 1960, undated

Economic writings of Francis Horner in the Edinburgh Review:

Book, 1802-1806

Correspondence reprints, 1955-1958, undated

Miscellaneous research, 1956, undated

Economic writings of Francis Horner in the Edinburgh Review:

Research:

Horner letters, undated

LSE papers and memoirs, undated

Selected Economics of Thomas Attwood:

Birmingham, 1961-1963, undated

Book, 1964

Correspondence, 1938-1937

Letters of Thomas Attwood, undated

Manuscript correspondence, 1962-1964, undated

Manuscript research, 1804, undated

Research:

Attwood, Mathias, 1817

Bibliography, 1941-1955, undated

Reprints, 1962-1963, undated

Development of British Monetary Orthodoxy:

Bibliography, books, pamphlets, 1965

Book, 1965

Correspondence: General, 1938-1973, undated

Manuscript correspondence, 1962-1963

Publication, 1963-1976, undated

Research:

Arbuthnot, George, undated

Attwood, Thomas, 1958-1966, undated

Bank of England:

1955, undated

Bullion records, undated

Stock, 1954-1959, undated (2 folders)

Bankruptcies, undated

British banking, undated

Cabinet memoranda in Great Britain, 1968-1989, undated

Endinburgh review, 1949-1955, undated

Hudson Gurnet papers, 1955, undated

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	List of Series in Collection
		Correspondence, 1902-1992, undated (bulk 1950-1973).
		Calendars, Diaries and Journals, 1917-1989.
		Commissions, Consulting and Government Services, 1924-1974 (bulk 1924-1930).
		Northwestern University, 1947-1968.
		Publications, 1857-1992, undated (bulk, 1940-1979).
		General Research, 1923-1981.
		Personal Files, 1915-1991.
		Professional Files, 1925-1990.
		Pictures, 1909-1988, undated (bulk 1930).
		Oversize Materials