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meier Inventory of the Gerald M. Meier Papers, 1928-2003 Processed by: John Bauman; machine-readable finding aid created by: Michael Shumate

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from automated markup system. Date of source: July 27, 2001 Processed by John Bauman July 27, 2001; Finding Aid encoded by Michael Shumate, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, November 14, 2002 Description is in English. 12-31-2005 PUBLIC "-//David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library//TEXT (US::NDD::::Gerald M. Meier)//EN" "meier.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Also, the top level of the finding aid (above the dsc) changed to conform to current Rubenstein Library and NC EAD standards as laid out in the Inventory Style Guide and in the NCEAD Best Practice Guidelines. Within the dsc, dates for series were normalized. These changes were made by Michelle Belden. Also, container TYPE and LABEL attribute values were standardized according to the Rubenstein Library EAD 2002 manual and the NCEAD eadlocal.ent by Ruth E. Bryan.The tag list inside index was changed to indexentry by Ruth E. Bryan. 11-17-2010 Accession 2010-0211 added to the finding aid. Item counts and lin. ft. adjusted. Inventory of the Gerald M. Meier Papers, 1928-2003 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

Descriptive Summary Gerald M. Meier Papers, 1928-2003 Meier, Gerald M. 7.75 Linear Feet 5400 Items David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. English. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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The Gerald M. Meier Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 1999 and 2010.

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The vast majority of Gerald M. Meier's papers came to the library in their original labeled folders. These labels, however, were often informal in their syntax. In order to file folders in an orderly manner, some labels were altered, but with the topical sense retained. In a few cases, folder titles were supplied, because no title existed or else the notations were insufficient.

The order of the folders was random throughout the cartons. While folders were rearranged, original order was preserved within each folder. Thus, the inter-relations between items within individual folders may be tenuous (e.g., Harvard University syllabi concerning a course on International Economics in a folder titled "Wesleyan Courses" which has lecture notes on International Economics).

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Biographical Note 1923, Feb. 9 Born, Tacoma, Wash. 1947 Reed College: B.A. (Social Science) Phi Beta Kappa 1948-1950, 1951-1952 Rhodes Scholar 1952 University of Oxford: B. Litt. (Economics) 1953 Harvard University: Ph.D. (Economics) 1954, Oct. 23 Married Gilda Slote; four children (David, Daniel, Jeremy, and Andrew) 1954-1959 Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), Assistant Professor and Professor of Economics 1955-1956 Yale University, Visiting Lecturer 1957 Published Economic Development 1956-1957, 1958-1959 Yale University, Visiting Associate Professor 1957-1958 Guggenheim Fellow 1959 Wesleyan University: M.A. (Honoris Causa) 1959-1963 Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics 1959-1961 Yale University, Visiting Professor 1961-1962 Brookings National Research Professorship 1963 Published International Trade and Development 1963-1992 Stanford University, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of International Economics and Policy Analysis, 1963-92, 1964 Published Leading Issues in Development Economics 1968 Published The International Economics of Development 1970, 1976 Published Leading Issues In Economic Development; Studies In International Poverty 1973 Published Problems of a Trade Policy 1974 Published Problems of Cooperation for Development 1974, 1982 Published Problems of a World Monetary Order 1974-1975 Rockefeller Foundation Research Grant 1977 Published Employment, Trade, and Development 1980 Published International Economics: Theory of Policy 1983 Published Pricing Policy for Development Management 1984 Published Emerging from Poverty: The Economics that Really Matters 1985 Co-editor, Pioneers in Development 1986 Published Financing Asian Development: Performance and Prospects 1989 Published Asian Development : Economic Success And Policy Lessons 1992 Stanford University, Professor Emeritus 1998 Published The International Environment Of Business: Competition And Governance In The Global Economy Collection Overview

The papers of Gerald M. Meier span the years 1928-2003, with the bulk of the materials from 1941-2001. These materials document the growth of Meier's career from a student of economics to an academic economist. This collection includes personal and professional correspondence; lectures; course notes taken as a student or developed for his lectures on international economic relations; syllabi, reading lists, exams, and other course materials; materials relating to conferences attended; published writings; and audiotapes of interviews relating to the evolution of development economics. The Correspondence Series is largely of a professional nature, and is chiefly concerned with international and development economics. Prominent among Meier's correspondents were Peter Bauer, Gottfried Haberler, W.A. Lewis, Hla Myint, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, W.W. Rostow, Dudley Seers, H.W. Singer, and Paul Streeten.

Many of Meier's major publications are represented in the Writings and Speeches Series. These include Economic Development,Emerging from Poverty,The International Economics of Development,International Trade and Development,Leading Issues in Development Economics,Pioneers in Development, and the Problems series of books. Though there are more than a few folders containing materials on conferences attended by Meier, by and large the Subject Series contains a great deal of course materials. From his days as a student, there are notes, exams, syllabi, reading lists, and bibliographies from Reed College, Harvard University, and University of Oxford concerning courses taken under Edward Chamberlin, Gottfried Haberler, John Hicks, Wassily Leontief, and others. Also, there is material representing the several law courses Meier enrolled in at Yale University and Stanford University. Among the lecture notes from Williams College, Wesleyan University, Yale University, and Stanford University, there are also syllabi, exams, and reading lists representing his tenure as a professor. Of particular note are the several folders concerning Meier's role in the genesis and growth of the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University.

Accession (2010-0211) also contains work from Meier's career, including reprints of his articles (dated 1949-1984) and materials from his lectures and presentations on development economics (dated 1986-2002). Also included are some miscellaneous correspondence, grant proposals, and book reviews. A large portion of the accession relates to Meier's writings, including his drafts and correspondence from several books, especially Frontiers of Development Economics (published 2001) and Development: Biography of a Subject (published 2004). Another section of interest is Meier's collection of materials on the career of John Hicks, a 1972 Nobel prize-winning economist. The collection includes article reprints written by Hicks, some clippings about his life, and an undated, unpublished manuscript titled The Theory of Demand and the Theory of Welfare.

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.

Hla Myint, U. Meier, Gerald M. Meier, Gerald M. Economic development. Meier, Gerald M. Emerging from poverty. Meier, Gerald M. International economics of development. Meier, Gerald M. Leading issues in development economics. Meier, Gerald M. Pioneers in development. Meier, Gerald M. International trade and development. Chamberlin, Edward, 1899-1967. Haberler, Gottfried, 1900- Hicks, John Richard, Sir, 1904-1989 Leontief, Wassily W., 1906- Lewis, W. Arthur (William Arthur), 1915- Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916- Seers, Dudley. Singer, Hans Wolfgang, 1910- Streeten, Paul. Bauer, P. T. (Péter Tamás) Rosenstein-Rodan, P. N. Stanford University--Faculty. Williams College--Faculty. Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)--Faculty. Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)--History. Yale University--Faculty. International economic relations. Development economics. Development economics--History. Economic development. Economists--United States. Economists--United States--Correspondence. Economics--History--20th century. Economics--Study and teaching. Economics--Study and teaching--United States. Economics--Study and teaching--England--Oxford. Developing countries--Economic conditions. Audio cassettes Contents of Collection Correspondence Series, 1949-1988

Consists of letters written to Meier by economists, educators, businessmen, and officials of governments and organizations. The collection is primarily professional, with few instances of communications with personal friends and family. Arranged into alphabetical and chronological groups.

C1 Alphabetical Asian Development Bank, 1981 Bauer, Peter, 1983-1984 Hirschman, Albert, 1983 Law and Economics, 1964-1975 Lewis, W.A., 1983 Myint, Hla, 1967-1971 Myrdal, Gunnar, 1983-1988 Overseas Development Council, 1970 Rosenstein-Rodan, Paul, 1982-1983 Rostow, W.W., 1982-1983 Shaw-McKinnon, 1970-1971 Singer, H.W., 1983 Streeten, Paul, 1983 Tinbergen, Jan, 1982-1983 Wesleyan Appointment, 1953-1955 Yale Law, 1963-1975 Chronological 1949-1954 1954-1959 1955-1959 1958, 1977-1979 1960-1962 1960-1963 1963-1964 1965 1966 1967-1969 1970-1972 1971-1983 1973-1975 1976-1979 1980-1982 1983-1985 1986 Writings and Speeches Series, 1949-1987

Meier's writings and speeches focus on international economics and the economics of development. The materials, consisting mainly of offprints and reprints, are arranged into alphabetical groups by title of publication. There is also supporting material (correspondence, notes, drafts, referee letters, reviews, and audiotapes) concerning several of his major publications.

WS1 Accelerating Development in Poor Countries, 1956 La aceleración del desarrollo en los países pobres, 1958 Analyzing the Risk of Lending to Developing Countries, 1983 On 'Appropriate' Policy Technology for Development, 1977 Book Reviews, 1953-1980 Book Reviews, Pioneers in Development,Emerging from Poverty,Leading Issues in Development Economics,1982-1987 The Bretton Woods Agreement: Twenty-Five Years After, 1971 Comment on the Terms of Trade and Economic Development, 1958 La crisi della programmazione nei paesi in via di sviluppo, 1970 La crisis de la planeación en los países en desarrollo, 1970 A Critique of the New British Monopoly Act, 1950 Development Decade in Perspective, 1971 Development Without Employment, 1969 Economic Development, Reviews, 1957 Economic Development of Export Economics, 1959 Economic Development and the Transfer Mechanism: Canada, 1895-1913, undated Emerging from Poverty Bretton Woods History for Introduction, 1981-1983 Letters, 1980-1983 Miscellaneous, 1979-1983 Externality Law and Market Safeguards: Applications in the GATT Multilateral Trade Negotiations, 1977 Export Stimulation, Import Substitution and Latin American Development, 1961 Foreign Aid: Economic Aspects, 1968 Free Trade and Development Economics, 1968 International Economic Reform: Collected Papers of Emile Despres, Correspondence and Reviews, 1974-1975 International Economics of Development, Correspondence and Reviews, 1966-1970 International Economics Law and Development, Chapter 1, miscellaneous notes, undated International Trade and Development, Correspondence and Reviews, 1961-1963 International Trade and International Inequality, 1958 The 'Jamaica Agreement,' International Monetary Reform, and the Developing Countries, 1976 Leading Issues in Economic Development Correspondence and Reviews, 1970-1976 Referee Letters, 1963 Reviews, 1964-1966 Oxford University Press, 1962-1965 Legal-Economic Problems of Private Foreign Investment in Developing Countries, 1966 Long Period Determinants of Britain's Terms of Trade, 1880-1913, 1952-1953 Miscellaneous, undated Myrdal on Commercial Policy of Underdeveloped Countries, 1958 A Note on the Theory of Comparative Costs and Long Period Developments, 1952 Pioneers in Development Correspondence, 1982-1986 Correspondence on early courses in Development Economics for Introduction, 1983-1984 Dudley Seers, 1982-1983 Audiotapes of seminars at World Bank, 1982 The Poverty of Nations, 1957 The Problem of Limited Economic Development, 1953 El Problema del desarrollo económico limitado, 1960 Problems Series, Correspondence and Reviews, 1970-1976 Progress and Problems of the Development Decade, 1966 The Role of an Expert Advisory Group in a Young Government, 1965 Some Questions about Growth Economics: Comment, 1954 Sviluppo senza occupazione, 1970 Symposium on the Report of the Trade and Tariffs Commission, 1960 The Theory of Comparative Costs Reconsidered, 1949 The Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the Developing Countries, 1980 The Trade Matrix: Comment, 1948 UNCTAD Proposals for International Economic Reform, 1967 U.S. Foreign Economic Policies, 1980 Subject Series, 1941-1998

The bulk of this series consists of files relating to conferences attended and to course materials. The latter files contain bibliographies, syllabi, reading lists, exams, and notes, both for undergraduate and graduate courses and, likewise, for both courses attended as a student and courses taught as a professor. The schools represented in the collection are Harvard, Oxford, Reed, Stanford, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale. Arranged alphabetically.

S1 IV World Congress, Budapest, 1974 American Council of Learned Societies Annual Meeting, 1957 Africa Trip, 1982 Agricultural Development Council (ADC) Conference, 1965 Bellagio Study and Conference Center, 1981 Cairo, 1982 Cambridge Conference 1965 1970 1972 Center for Economic Policy Research, 1986 China Lecture for World Bank, 1984 Committee for the Study of Mankind, 1960 Conference on the International Economic and Financial Systems, 1995 Conference on International Economics, 1956 Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (Brazil) CADE, 1972 The Content of Education for Accelerated Agricultural Development, 1965 Development: International Law and Economics Symposium, 1967 Economic Development and World Debt, 1987 Ethics and International Relations, 1973 European Logistics Management Program, 1971 Globalization, Development or Underdevelopment, 1997 Goodyear International Management Seminar, 1973 Hicks Fechtschrift - Free Trade and Development Economics, 1966-1967 Institute of Development Studies 1966-1968, n.d 1968, 1971 1969 Instituto Peruano de Administración de Empresas (IPAE), 1973 International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG), 1994 International Conference on Economic History, 1960 International Symposium of Nihon University, 1996 Jamaica Trip, 1970, 1983 Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Korea, 1995 Latin-American - U.S. Economic Interactions, Texas, 1973 Law and Development Conference, University of Wisconsin, 1968 Law and Economics Committee, 1968-1971 Malawi - Underdevelopment and Economics, undated Merrill Center for Economics, 1955 Miscellaneous Conferences, 1956-1986 and undated Moral Aspects of War, Power, and Economic Involvement, undated Moscow Meeting, 1988 Nyasaland Conference

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1961-1997 and undated (4 folders) 1983 and undated Pakistan, 1958 Peru, 1972 Rome/Vatican, 1993 Schools Harvard University Course Notes, 1947-1948 International Economics, Bibliographies, 1951-1952 S2 International Economics, Haberler, 1947 (3 folders) International Economics, Haberler and Balogh, 1947-1948 (3 folders) International Economics, Miscellaneous Seminars and Lectures, 1948 (4 folders) International Economics, Notes, 1947-1948 (2 folders) Lectures, 1948, 1950-1951 Miscellaneous Attendance at Miscellaneous Lectures, 1960-1987 and undated Course Reading Lists, 1947-1955 and undated Exams, 1947-1952 Exams, 1948-1965 and undated J.M. Finnis - Jurisprudence, 1974 Law and Economics Lectures, 1958-1978 Lectures (Hicks, Haberler, Chamberlin, Leontief) and Exams, 1947-1951 and undated Lectures, Oxford 1948-1949, Harvard 1947, 1950 Miscellaneous Lectures Attended, 1946-1994 and undated Miscellaneous Syllabi and Exams, 1971-1982 and undated Miscellaneous Syllabi and Handouts, 1952-1968 Syllabi for Various Economics Courses, 1953-1972 and undated S3 Reed College (Portland, Or.), 1941-1942 Stanford University Courses Materials, International Law and Development, 1964-1972 Course Notes, 1964 and undated Courses, 1963 Econ 216 Despres and Meier, 1963-1964 International Economics Exams, 1963-1968 Price Analysis, 1964 Price System, 1969-1970 (2 folders) Tort Law, 1975 (2 folders) University of Oxford Lectures, 1948-1949 Lectures and Journals, 1948-1985 Lectures and Journals, 1958 Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) College of Social Studies 1958-1994, undated 1960 1971, undated 1994-1998 Econ Tutorials, 1960-1961 Courses, 1953-1963 and undated (2 folders) Courses, 1959 and undated Econ 2 Lectures, 1959 Econ 31-32 Lecture Notes, 1958-1959 Economic Theory Reading Lists, 1954-1959 Williams College 1985 Courses, 1952-1954 Econ 1, 1952 and Econ 3-4, 1953-1954 Yale University Constitution Law, 1976 Contracts and Torts, Leff and Calabresi, 1976 Course Notes, 1953-1956 and undated Courses, 1955-1957 International Welfare Economics and International Law, 1973-1986 (2 folders) Law and Economics, 1956-1957 Tacoma Sunday Times, undated Top Executive Seminar on International Economic Problems, Tel Aviv, 1974-1975 U.S. - Mexican Financial Relations Conference, 1974 University of Texas – Latin-American Conference, 1973 Zagreb, 1987 Oversize Materials Series Subject Subseries 1 Nyasaland Conference, 1962

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Accession (2010-0211), 1928-2003 (2 boxes)

Accession (2010-0211) (900 items; 1.5 lin. ft.) also contains work from Meier's career, including reprints of his articles (dated 1949-1984) and materials from his lectures and presentations on development economics (dated 1986-2002). Also included are some miscellaneous correspondence, grant proposals, and book reviews. A large portion of the accession relates to Meier's writings, including his drafts and correspondence from several books, especially Frontiers of Development Economics (published 2001) and Development: Biography of a Subject (published 2004). Another section of interest is Meier's collection of materials on the career of John Hicks, a 1972 Nobel prize-winning economist. The collection includes article reprints written by Hicks, some clippings about his life, and an undated, unpublished manuscript titled "The Theory of Demand and the Theory of Welfare."

A1Public speaking, 1986-2002 and undated (3 folders)

Materials from Meier's talks, lectures, and presentations throughout the world on social capital, developing countries, and development economics.

A1Miscellaneous publications by Meier, 1949-1984 and undated(6 folders)

Arranged chronologically by year. Includes offprint journal articles and book reviews. Several have duplicates.

A1Book manuscripts A1Pioneers in Development, vols. 1 and 2, 1982-1985 A1The World Beyond the Firm, 1992-1996 A1Frontiers of Development Economics, 1999-2001(3 folders)

Correspondence, notes, and chapter drafts.

A1Leading Issues in Economic Development, 1996-1998 A1Development: Biography of a Subject, 2001 and undated(6 folders)

Proposals, pre-reviews, notes, drafts of chapters.

A1Unknown titles, undated A1Correspondence, 1947-2003 and undated(2 folders) A1Book reviews and Grants, 1978-1989 and undated A1John Hicks materials A1Article reprints, 1928-1974(2 folders) A1Unpublished manuscript: "The Theory of Demand and the Theory of Welfare," undated A1Clippings, 1950s-1989 A2Correspondence, 1944-1992 A2Writings by others A2Sir Arthur Lewis lecture, 2002 A2Memorial clippings