Charles Jesse Bullock, 1869-1941.
American Institutionalist economist at
Harvard.
Charles Jesse Bullock learnt his economics from a correspondence course taken
with Richard T. Ely. After graduating from Boston
University, Bullock went to Wisconsin
where he obtained his Ph.D. under Ely in 1895. After a brief career at
Cornell and
Williams, Bullock was hired by Harvard in
1902 as an expert on public finance.
Bullock was the founder and director of the Harvard's Committee on Economic
Research in 1915, which created the "Harvard Economic Service",
a half-academic, half-private center for the Persons's
"barometric" business cycle research
in the 1920s.
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Major Works of Charles J. Bullock
- The Finances of the United States, 1775-89, 1895.
- Introduction
to the Study of Economics, 1897
- Essays on the Monetary History of the United States, 1900
- "Review
of Bowley's Wages in the UK", 1900, JPE
- "Trusts
and Public Policy", 1901, Atlantic Monthly
- "The
Variation of Productive Forces", 1902, QJE
- Editor, Selected Readings in Economics, 1907.
- "The
Construction and Interpretation of the Harvard Index of Business
Confidence", with W.M. Persons and W.L. Crum,
1927 REStat
- "Postal Revenues and the Business Cycle",
with J.B. Fox and A.R. Eckler, 1931, REStat
- "Foreign Trade
and the Business Cycle", with H.L. Micoleau, 1931, REStat
- "The
Harvard Index of Economic Conditions: Interpretations and Performance,
1919-1931", with W.L. Crum, 1932 REStat
- Economic Essays,
1936
- Politics, Finance and Consequences, 1939.
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Resources on C.J. Bullock
- "Review
of Bullock's Introduction to the Study of Economics", by
H.J. Davenport, 1897, JPE
- C.J. Bullock
online books at Penn
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