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Edward S. Mason, 1899-1992

American Institutionalist economist and pioneer of the "SCP" or structuralist school of modern industrial organization at Harvard.

Originating from Clinton, Iowa, Edward Sangedorph Mason was received his B.A. from the University of Kansas.  After a brief interlude as Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Edward S. Mason  received his Ph.D at Harvard under F.W. Taussig in 1925, with a dissertation on dumping in international trade.  Edward S. Mason had a early interest as a scholar of socialist movements, lecturing on the topic at Harvard and producing his first book on it, before moving on to industrial organization.

With occasional interludes as a government advisor, Edward S.Mason was a professor at Harvard for almost the entire duration of his career.

 

  

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Major Works of Edward S. Mason

  • "The Doctrine of Comparative Cost", 1926, QJE
  • "Fourier and Anarchism", 1928, QJE
  • The Paris Commune, 1930
  • "Saint-Simonism and the Rationalisation of Industry", 1931, QJE
  • Street Railway in Massachusetts, 1932.
  • "The National Recovery Administration", 1935, QJE
  • "Power Aspects of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Program", 1936, QJE
  • "Industrial Concentration and the Decline of Competition", 1936, in Explorations in Economics
  • "Monopoly in Law and Economics", 1937, Yale Law Journal
  • "Price Inflexibility", 1938, REStat.
  • "Price and Production Policies of Large-Scale Enterprise", 1939, AER
  • "The Impact of the War on American Commodity Prices: A Preliminary View", 1939, REStat
  • "Monopoly in Law and Economics", 1939, Yale Law J
  • "Price Policies and Full Employment", 1940, in Friedrich and Mason, editors, Public Policy
  • "Frank William Taussig" with J.A. Schumpeter and A.H. Cole, 1941, QJE
  • "International Commodity Controls, Cartels and Commodity Agreements", 1945, in Harris, editor, Economic Reconstruction
  • Controlling World Trade: Cartels and Commodity Agreements, 1946
  • "Competition, Price Policy and High-Level Stability", in 1947, Pricing Problems and Stabilization of Prosperity
  • "Various Views on the Monopoly Problem", 1949, REStat
  • "The Current Status of the Monopoly Problem in the United States", 1949, Harvard Law Rev
  • "American Security and Acces to Raw Materials", 1949, World Politics
  • "Professor Joseph A. Schumpeter" with G. Haberler, S.E. Harris and W.W. Leontief, 1951, REStat
  • "Schumpeter on Monopoly and the Large Firm", 1951, REStat
  • "Prices, Costs and Profits", 1951, in Money, Trade and Economic Growth
  • "Raw Materials, Rearmament and Economic Development", 1952, QJE
  • "An American View of Raw-Material Problems", 1952, J of Industrial Econ
  • "The New Competition", 1953, Yale Review
  • "Labor Monopoly and All That", 1955, Proceedings of IRRA
  • Promoting Economic Development: The United States and Southern Asia, 1955
  • "Market Power and Business Conduct", 1956, AER
  • Economic Concentration and the Monopoly Problem, 1957.
  • Economic Planning in Underdeveloped Areas: Government and Business, 1959
  • The Corporation in Modern Society, 1959
  • "The Role of Government in Economic Development", 1960, AER
  • "Interests, Ideologies, and the Problem of Stability and Growth", 1963, AER
  • "On the Appropriate Size of a Development Program", 1964, mimeo.
  • "Economic Development in India and Pakistan", 1966, mimeo.
  • The World Bank sine Bretton Woods", with R.E. Akser, 1973
  • The Economic and Social Development of the Republic of Korea, et al., 1981.
  • ".The Harvard Department of Economics from the Beginning to World War II" with T. Lamont, 1981, QJE

 
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