MATERIALS FROM CHESTER WHITNEY WRIGHT’S COURSES ON THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1933–1934

Abstract

Chester Whitney Wright (1879–1966) received his A.B. in 1901, A.M. in 1902 and Ph.D. in 1906, all from Harvard University. After teaching at Cornell University during 1906–1907, he taught at the University of Chicago from 1907 to 1944. Wright was the author of Economic History of the United States (1941, 1949); editor of Economic Problems of War and Its Aftermath (1942), to which he contributed a chapter on economic lessons from previous wars, and other chapters were authored by John U. Nef (war and the early industrial revolution) and by Frank H. Knight (the war and the crisis of individualism); and co-editor of Materials for the Study of Elementary Economics (1913). Wright’s Wool-Growing and the Tariff received the David Ames Wells Prize for 1907–1908, and was volume 5 in the Harvard Economic Studies. I am indebted to Holly Flynn for assistance in preparing Wright’s biography and in tracking down incomplete references; to Marianne Johnson in preparing many tables and charts; and to F. Taylor Ostrander, as usual, for help in transcribing and proofreading.

Citation

(2005), "MATERIALS FROM CHESTER WHITNEY WRIGHT’S COURSES ON THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 1933–1934", Samuels, W.J. (Ed.) Further University of Wisconsin Materials: Further Documents of F. Taylor Ostrander (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 23), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 271-367. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(05)23208-X