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Inventory of the Lionel W. McKenzie Papers, 1942-2004 and undated

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Descriptive Summary

Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Creator
McKenzie, Lionel W.
Title
Lionel W. McKenzie Papers, 1942-2004 and undated
Extent
22 Linear Feet

16,500 Items
Language of Material
Material in English
Abstract
Economist whose main areas of research are general equilbrium theory and turnpike theory. McKenzie began his career as an assistant professor at Duke University from 1948 to 1957 before becoming chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Rochester in 1957, where he taught until his retirement in 1989. McKenzie also served on a number of prominent international economic organizations, where he helped to further the discourse in the discipline.
Collection contains correspondence, writings, research notes, and other written material from throughout McKenzie's career. The papers span the years 1942-2004 and document his work as an economic theorist and educator.
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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
However, collection may contain materials to which the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibilities and Privacy Rights form applies. Patrons must sign this 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.
Copyright Notice
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Lionel W. McKenzie Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Lionel W. McKenzie Papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a gift in 2003.
Processing Information
Processed by Matthew Archer, Paula Jeannet Mangiafico, and Dan Ruccia, 2007
Encoded by Matthew Archer, Paula Jeannet Mangiafico, and Dan Ruccia
Completed June 2007
Accession 2003-0237 is described in this finding aid.
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and local Style Guide.
            

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Biographical Note

1919 Jan. 26Born in Montezuma, Georgia
1939Completed Bachelor of the Arts at Duke University
1939Named Rhodes Scholar
1942Completed Masters of the Arts at Princeton University
1948Completed B. Litt. degree at Oxford University
1948-1957Served as Assistant Professor in Economics, Duke University
1956Received PhD from Princeton University
1957-1966Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics, University of Rochester
1959Published "On the Existence of General Equilibrium for a Competitive Economy" in Econometrica
1967-1989Served as Wilson Professor of Economics at University of Rochester
1973-1974Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
1978Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
1986Published "Optimal Growth, Turnpike Theorem, and Comparative Dynamics" in Handbook of Mathematical Economics
1989Retired from University of Rochester
2002Published Classical General Equilibrium Theory

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Collection Overview

The Lionel W. McKenzie Papers span the years 1942 to 2004, with the bulk of the material dating from 1960 to 1990. Through correspondence, research notes, article drafts, teaching material, lectures, and published materials, the collection provides a broad overview of his professional career. McKenzie's greatest contribution to economics has been through his work in conjunction with Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu on general equilibrium, and his writings on capital theory and turnpike theory, all of which are documented in a variety of forms throughout the collection. Significant correspondents include noted economists Paul Samuelson, Tjalling Koopmans, and Robert Solow. Other aspects of his career are documented, such as his involvement in a number of economic organizations, especially the Econometric Society and the Mathematical Social Sciences Board; his role as organizer of a number of academic conferences, such as the Value and Capital Conference of 1988; and his teaching career at Duke University from 1948 to 1957 and at the University of Rochester from 1957 to 1989. The papers are organized into the following series: Conferences; Correspondence; Course Materials; Organizations; Personal Files; and Research and Writings.
The Conferences Series includes material from conferences McKenzie attended and organized throughout his career and includes copies of programs, articles given, and other related documents. The Correspondence Series, the largest of the collection, contains largely official and routine correspondence, but also includes a sizeable number of letters on intellectual topics. The Research and Writings Series, the second largest, has various drafts and iterations of most of McKenzie's published work as well as some unpublished material. Many of the notes contain complicated mathematical notations documenting the theoretical foundations for his work. A small set of writings by others, chiefly on game theory and convex sets, conclude the series. The Course Materials Series houses syllabi and other materials from the seminars he taught, including many versions of the handwritten text for his general equilibrium seminar, documenting his teaching methods as well as the evolution in his thinking on the subject. In the Organizations Series, extensive documentation can be found of McKenzie's involvement with various economic organizations, including internal discussions on the workings of many of these groups. The smallest group of records, the Personal Files Series, contains curriculum vitae, personal correspondence, and other ephemera.
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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.
  • Arrow, Kenneth Joseph, 1921-
  • Debreu, Gerard.
  • Koopmans, Tjalling Charles, 1910-
  • Samuelson, Paul Anthony, 1915-
  • Solow, Robert M.
  • University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics.
  • Duke University. Dept. of Economics.
  • Economics -- Teaching.
  • Economists -- Correspondence.
  • Economists -- United States.
  • Equilibrium (Economics).
  • Turnpike theory (Economics).
  • Econometric Society.
  • Mathematical Social Sciences Board.
  • Value and Capital Conference.
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Related Material

Those interested in Lionel McKenzie and his research may also wish to consult the Kenneth J. Arrow Papers and the Robert M. Solow Papers, also housed at the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
List of Series in Collection
Conferences Series, 1957-1992
Correspondence Series, 1948-2003 and undated
Course Materials Series, 1950s-1995 and undated
Organizations Series, 1956-1990s
Personal Files Series, 1942-2004 and undated
Research and Writings Series, 1946-1999 and undated
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Detailed Description of Collection

Conferences Series, 1957-1992

(5 boxes)
Chiefly programs, articles, minutes, correspondence, and other materials from academic conferences McKenzie attended or helped organize, both domestically and abroad. Includes some bound volumes, mostly from the 1960s, with every paper given at a particular conference. The largest amount of material comes from the 1988 Value and Capital Conference, which includes correspondence with various contributors as well as paper manuscripts for publication. Some folders include materials from non-conference related activies that occurred while McKenzie attended conferences, chiefly concert programs, maps, receipts, travel plans, and other materials. Folders are organized chronologically by year (and month, when possible).
Box 1
1957, Summer program at Stanford
1958, Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC)
1959, Stanford
1963, Cambridge
1964, SSRC  (2 folders)
1964, Outgoing correspondence for SSRC
1964 July, Rochester  (2 folders)
Box 2
1965 July, Stanford
1966 Aug., Harvard
1967 Nov., Chicago
1968 June, Brown University
Box 3
1970, Novosibirsk
1970 June, Vienna
1972 July, Warsaw
1974 July, Warsaw
1975 Feb., National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
1975 Apr., World food conference
1976 Feb., General equilibrium, Berkeley
1978, Montreal
1979, Berkeley symposium
1979, Atlanta
1981 Aug., Cornell
1982 June, Oxford
1983, Minnesota
1984 Apr., Minnesota, general equilibrium
1985 May, Greece trip
1985 June, Cowles conference, remarks on Debreu
1985 Aug., MIT, econometric world conference
1986, California trip
Box 4
1988, Value and Capital Conference, Bologna Subseries
Folders include correspondence and paper drafts by the person named in the folder title.
Hicks conference
Amendola
Arrow
Atsumi
Brock
Casarosa
Cass
Duffie
Epstein
Gale
Geanakoplos
Grandmont
Hahn
Hall
Hamouda
Hicks
Hildenbrand
Hillebrandt
King
Box 5
Laroque
Malinvaud
Masera
McKenzie
Mukherji
Patinkin
Persson
Povey
Punzo
Radner
Sonderman
Spaventa
Svensson
Uzawa
Yaari
Zamagni
Correspondence
1989, Retirement conference
1992, Minnesota
1992, Japan trip, Hitobashi conference

Correspondence Series, 1948-2003 and undated

(13 boxes)
Mainly professional correspondence, including letters of recommendation, comments on manuscripts, advising exchanges, and topics in economics. Much of the correspondence is routine, dealing with article submissions, publication issues, recommendations, and activies relating to the Department of Economics at the University of Rochester; however, there are some intellectual exchanges and article revisions and commentaries in the series. Important topics in economics include optimal growth, turnpike theorem, general equilibrium, and Von Neumann models. Correspondents of note include Kenneth Arrow, Gerard Debreu, David Gale, Tjalling Koopmans, Paul Samuelson, and Robert Solow. There are smaller amounts of topic-specific correspondence in the Research and Writings, Conferences, and Organizations Series.
The series is organized chronologically at the folder level, with original folder titles retained. Within folders, the organization varies from year to year: from 1948 to 1957, items are roughly chronological by date; from 1957 to 1981, items are separated into incoming and outgoing correspondence, organized alphabetically by sender and recipient, respectively; from 1981 to 1994, items are in reverse chronological order by date within folders; from 1994 to 2002, items are in very rough chronological order.
Box 6
1948-1951, Letters from Duke
1952-1956, Letters (before Yale)  (2 folders)
1956, Letters at Yale
1956 Sept.-1957 Jan.
1956-1957, Letters re: Rochester
1956-1957, Noyes Correspondence
1957, Rochester relevant letters at Michigan
1957, Letters at Michigan
1957 Sept.-1958 Sept.  (3 folders)
Box 7
1958 Sept.-1963 Sept.  (10 folders)
1962-1966, California negotiations
Box 8
1963 Sept.-1967 July  (9 folders)
Box 9
1967 July-1970 July  (9 folders)
1970-1973, Journal of Economic Theory, some letters re: manuscripts
1970 July-1971 July  (folder 1 of 3)
Box 10
1970 July-1971 July  (folders 2-3 of 3)
1971 July-1973 July  (6 folders)
1973, Guggenheim Application
1973 July-1974 July  (folder 1 of 4)
Box 11
1973 July-1974 July  (folders 2-4 of 4)
1974 July-1976 July  (6 folders)
1976 July-1977 July  (folder 1 of 3)
Box 12
1976 July-1977 July  (folders 2-3 of 3)
1977 July-1979 July  (6 folders)
1977-1979, Letters re: Iosif Krass  (2 folders)
1978-1979, Correspondence at Cal Tech
Box 13
1979 July-1980 July  (4 folders)
1980-1981, Correspondence at Harvard  (3 folders)
1980 July-1981 July  (3 folders)
1981 May-Sept., Correspondence from Harvard
Box 14
1981 July-1984 June  (7 folders)
1984 July-1985 June  (folders 1-2 of 3)
Box 15
1984 July-1985 June  (folder 3 of 3)
1985 June-1988 June  (8 folders)
1988 July-1989 June, Outgoing
Box 16
1988-1989, Incoming
1989-1992  (6 folders)
1992-1993, Incoming
Box 17
1993-1997, Outgoing  (7 folders)
1997, Correspondence with Makoto Yano
1997-2003
Box 18
1998-2002  (2 folders)
1998-2001, E-mail
Undated

Course Materials Series, 1950s-1995 and undated

(5 boxes)
Contains lecture notes, reading lists, class notes, exams, and other materials from throughout McKenzie's teaching career, with an emphasis on his courses at the University of Rochester. The bulk of the material is for his seminar on general equilibrium theory, including multiple versions of his handwritten text for the course. Series organized alphabetically by folder title.
Box 18
Curriculum revision at Duke, 1950s
Economic theory, 1963-1968, 1978, 1981  (8 folders)
Economics 131 notes, 1958
Exams, 1952-circa 1955
Exams, Econ. 52, 1952-1954
General equilibrium at Duke, 1953-1955  (3 folders)
Box 19
General equilibrium exams, 1968-1995
General equilibrium theory, 1969-1987  (22 folders)
Box 20
General equilibrium theory, 1987-1992, 1995  (12 folders)
General equilibrium theory seminar notes, typed, 1995  (2 folders)
General equilibrium theory notes, undated  (2 folders)
Box 21
General equilibrium theory notes, 1980s-1990s, and undated  (10 folders)
Box 22
General equilibrium theory notes, 1978, circa 1981  (5 folders)
Harvard theory course and notes, circa 1981  (2 folders)
Harvard visit summer courses, 1980-1981
Letters re: Michigan, 1956-1957
Mathematical economics notes, 1950s  (3 folders)
Mathematical economics notes at Michigan, circa 1957
Box 23
Mathematical economics seminar, exams, old notes, etc, 1965-1983
Miscellaneous, undated
Qualifying exams, 1960s-1980s
Values theory I, 1977
Values theory II, 1960s-1980s  (3 folders)

Organizations Series, 1956-1990s

(10 boxes)
Consists of correspondence, papers, minutes, member lists, fellowship applications, and other written material related to national and international organizations with which McKenzie was involved. The bulk of the material relates to the Econometric Society, of which McKenzie was president in 1977, and the Mathematical Social Sciences Board, which he chaired from 1968 to 1970. Also included are records documenting McKenzie's involvement with American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Economic Association, the International Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, the National Academy of Science, the National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Sciences Council.
The series is organized alphabetically by organization and by folder title, except for the Econometric Society folders which are chronological by year.
Box 23
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1960s-1980s
American Economic Association, 1960s
Econometric Society, 1956-1993
1956, Cleveland meeting
1959-1973, Correspondence
Box 24
1960-1961, Materials including proposal to NSF
1965, World Congress organizational correspondence
1965, World Congress programs
1969, Fellows  (3 folders)
1970-1971, Econometrics volume
1973, Fellow
1974, Executive committee
1974, Grenoble meeting
1974-1976, Standing committee
1975, Program
1975, World Congress  (2 folders)
Box 25
1975-1976, Executive committee correspondence
1975-1977, Econometrica
1975-1978, Walras-Bowley lectures
1976, Madison meeting
1976, Ottawa meeting
1976, Executive committee meeting, Ottawa
1976, Helsinki meeting
1976-1977, Summer meetings  (2 folders)
1976-1977, Presidency
1977, New York meeting: fellows and standing committee  (3 folders)
Box 26
1977, Nominating committee for fellowships  (2 folders)
1977, Nominating committee for officers and council
1977, Marschak fund
1977, Helsinki affair
1977, World Congress
1977, Presidential matters  (3 folders)
1977, South American meeting
1977, Miscellaneous
1977-1978, Aide memoire
Box 27
1978, Chicago meeting
1978, Geneva meeting
1978, June, Boulder meeting
1978, Vienna meeting
1978, Past presidents
1978 July-1979 July, Correspondence  (2 folders)
1981 July-1986 Dec., Correspondence and other materials
1988-1989, Treasurer committee correspondence
1993, Selection of officers
International Economic Review, 1970s
Box 28
Journal of International Economics, 1970-1972
Mathematical Social Sciences Board, 1957-1975
Chairman, 1967-1970  (3 folders)
Committee on history, 1960s  (3 folders)
Dynamic systems seminar, 1975
Economy committee, 1966-1974  (folder 1 of 3)
Box 29
Economy committee, 1966-1974  (folders 2-3 of 3)
Final report of summer institute, 1957
Miscellaneous material, 1960s  (4 folders)
New proposals, 1968  (2 folders)
Postscript, 1970-1973
Box 30
Proposal, 1970  (2 folders)
Raiffa's conference, 1966
Summer conference, 1965-1966
Summer workshop, Berkeley, 1971
National Academy of Science, 1980-1984  (2 folders)
Box 31
National Academy of Science, 1970s-1990s  (9 folders)
National Research Council, 1960s-1970s  (4 folders)
Box 32
National Research Council, 1960-1962
National Science Foundation, 1960-1970  (4 folders)
Social Sciences Council, 1960-1962

Personal Files Series, 1942-2004 and undated

(1 box)
Contains curriculum vitae, personal correspondence mostly from the 1990s, graduate school materials, newspaper articles and clippings, and other items of personal and biographical interest. Catalog of McKenzie library held by the Institute of Economic Research in Japan is in English and Japanese. Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
Box 32
Catalog of Lionel W. McKenzie Library [Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University], 2004
Curriculum vitae, circa 1950-2003
Graduate school materials, 1942-1949
Japan trip, 1980
Miscellaneous, undated
Newspaper articles, press releases, and years in review, 1950s-1999
Personal correspondence, 1952-1998

Research and Writings Series, 1946-1999 and undated

(12 boxes)
Notes, manuscripts, drafts, proofs, and reprints for many of McKenzie's publications spanning his entire career. Includes his Princeton thesis and manuscripts of a few unpublished articles. Major topics include the turnpike theorem, general equilibrium, and optimal economic growth, with extensive notes and drafts for writings on all three topics. A few folders house correspondence pertaining to specific articles and areas of research, often including comments and critiques of McKenzie's ideas by his peers. Also included are McKenzie's contributions to the 1987 New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, the 1983 Handbook of Mathematical Economics, and the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Additionally, there is a small group of bound material from graduate courses McKenzie took in the 1950s with McKenzie's annotations. Folders arranged alphabetically by title. For published articles, the date refers to the date of publication.
Box 33
"Accumulation Programs of Maximum Utility and the Von Neumann Facet" , 1967
Bibliographies, circa 1953, circa 1960  (2 folders)
Book, early plans, circa 1955
"Capital Accumulation Optimal in the Final State" , 1971
"The Classical Theorem on Existence of Competitive Equilibrium" , 1981  (5 folders)
"The Classical Theorem on Existence of Competitive Equilibrium: a Postscript" (unpublished), circa 1981
"Competitive Equilibrium with Dependent Consumer Preferences" , 1956
"The Comparative Statics and Dynamics of Stationary States" , 1990  (folders 1-4 of 5)
Box 34
"The Comparative Statics and Dynamics of Stationary States" , 1990  (folder 5 of 5)
"A Contribution to the Theorem of Competitive Equilibrium" , early versions, circa 1960s
Copies of articles, 1946-1999  (6 folders)
"Core and Competitive Equilibria in Finite Economies" , 1993
Cowles Foundation discussion papers, 1956
"Demand Theory Without a Utility Index" , 1957
Department papers, 1961
Department seminars, 1984
Box 35
Distribution lists, 1970s-1980s and undated
"The Dorfman-Samuelson-Solow Turnpike Theorem," 1963  (2 folders)
"Early Conferences on Economic Growth," 1999
Early versions of 1960s papers
"Equality of Factor Prices in World Trade," 1955
"On Equilibrium in Graham's Model of World Trade and Other Competitive Systems," 1954  (2 folders)
"Equilibrium, Trade, and Capital Accumulation," 1999  (2 folders)
"The Existence of Competitive Equilibrium in a Growing Economy," 1993
"The Existence of Competitive Equilibrium Over an Infinite Horizon with Production and General Consumption Sets," 1993
"On the Existence of General Equilibrium," 1959  (folder 1 of 3)
Box 36
"On the Existence of General Equilibrium," 1959  (folders 2-3 of 3)
"Factor Price Equilization and the Jacobian Determinant," 1963  (3 folders)
"A General Equilibrium Analysis in International Trade," circa 1963
"Ideal Output and the Independence of Firms," 1951
Indirect tax problem, circa 1956
Japanese students at the University of Rochester, 1970s-1980s
Kimura (JET), 1973-1974
Lectures, undated
Letter of application for research support, circa 1953
Materials for Stanford workshop, 1956
"Mathematical Theory of International Trade," 1965
"Maximal Paths in the Von Neumann Model," 1967  (3 folders)
Box 37
Miscellaneous materials and manuscripts, undated  (5 folders)
MIT press reprints, 1970s
My papers at the University of Rochester, 1960s  (2 folders)
New Palgrave Dictionary, 1980s
General, 1980s  (2 folders)
Box 38
"General Equilibrium," 1987  (3 folders)
"Gross Substitutes," 1987
"Turnpike Theory," 1987  (2 folders)
"A New Route to Turnpikes," 1976
Notes, undated  (4 folders)
Notes from Harvard, circa 1980
Notes from Madison and Illinois, 1976
Notes from New Haven: Cowles Foundation, 1956
Notes on Anour and Hahn, undated
Notes on dual turnpikes, undated
Notes on econometrics, 1950s
Box 39
Notes on growth theorem, 1960s
Notes on optimal growth, undated
Notes on rational choice, undated
Notes on taxation from SSRC workshop, 1957
Notes on turnpike theorem, 1960s
Notes on turnpikes, undated
"Optimal Economic Growth, Turnpike Theorem, and Competitive Dynamics," 1986  (folders 1-6 of 9)
Box 40
"Optimal Economic Growth, Turnpike Theorem, and Competitive Dynamics," 1986  (folders 7-9 of 9)
Oxford lectures, circa 1947, circa 1955
Oxford thesis, 1948
Papers, 1950s-1990s  (folders 1-3 of 14)
Box 41
Papers, 1950s-1990s  (folders 4-14 of 14)
Presidential lecture, 1979
"Price-Quantity Duality and Turnpike Theorem," 1961
"A Primal Route to the Turnpike and Liapounov Stability," 1982  (folders 1-2 of 4)
Box 42
"A Primal Route to the Turnpike and Liapounov Stability," 1982  (folders 3-4 of 4)
Programming of independent sources, 1950-1951
Princeton thesis, 1956
Referee reports, 1981
Research for Warsaw paper, 1970s
Review of Collard, etc., 1957, 1984
"A Scholar's Progress," 1999
Social Sciences Encyclopedia, 1964-1965
Some revised manuscripts, 1980s
"Specialization and Efficiency in World Production," 1954
"Stability of Equilibrium and the Value of Positive Excess Demand," 1960
"Theorem and Counter-Example," Swann and Koupeman correspondence, 1960s
"Theory of International Trade II," 1966
"Three Turnpike Theorems for a Generalized Leontief Model," 1962
Box 43
Trade, 1960s
"Turnpike Theory," 1976  (2 folders)
"Turnpike Theory: Some Corrections," 1980
"Turnpike Theory, Discounted Utility, and the Von Neumann Facet," 1983  (5 folders)
"Turnpike Theorem of Morishima," 1963
"Turnpike Theorems with Technology and Welfare Function Variable," 1972
Box 44
"Turnpikes," 1998  (2 folders)
Two reprints, 1971-1972
"Why Compute Competitive Equilibrium," 1976
Writings by Others, 1949-1959
Various authors. "Lectures on the Theory of Games," 1952
Various authors. "Seminar on Convex Sets," 1949-1950
Fan, Ky. "Convex Sets and Their Applications," 1959
Fenchel, W. "Convex Cones, Sets, and Function," 1953
MacLane, Saunders. "Algebraic Topology," 1951
Savage. "Exercises in Math Stat," circa 1951
Tucker, A. W. "Game Theory and Programming," 1955
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McKenzie Materials in Other Institutions

Other papers, chiefly correspondence and departmental files, are located at the University of Rochester, N.Y., and relate mainly to McKenzie's teaching career and professional activities at that institution. An inventory of those holdings is located in the Lionel W. McKenzie Papers public information file in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke.
Also, the Institute of Economic Research at Kyoto University in Japan has established the McKenzie Library, which holds published works and other printed materials on economics from McKenzie's personal library. A printed catalog of these holdings can be found in the Lionel W. McKenzie Papers held in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke.