Herschel Grossman Papers, 1957-2003


John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Published in 2013

Collection Overview

Title: Herschel Grossman papers
Date range: 1957-2003
Creator: Grossman, Herschel I. (Herschel Ivan)
Extent: 2.25 Linear feet
Abstract: The Herschel Grossman papers document Grossman's research and scholarship. The collection includes Grossman's undergraduate and graduate coursework, papers, and presentations. Materials include research notes, lecture notes, essays, and numerous publications in the field of economics. The records date from 1957 to 2003.
Language of materials: English
Repository: John Hay Library , Special Collections
Collection number: OF.1UF.G5

Scope & content

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Arrangement

The collection is organized in one series:

  • I. General files, 1957-2003

Biographical note

Herschel I. Grossman was born in Philadelphia on 6 March 1939. After receiving his B.A. from the University of Virginia and B. Phil from Oxford, he pursued a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. In 1964, Grossman joined Brown University's economics faculty. He was appointed Merton P. Stoltz Professor in the Social Sciences in 1980. Grossman was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. He served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the European Journal of Political Economy, and Economics of Governance, and was a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He died suddenly at the age of 65 on 9 October 2004, while in Marseilles, France, where he was attending a conference.

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Access to the collection: There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested.
Use of the materials: Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.
Preferred citation: Herschel Grossman Papers, OF-1UF-G5, Brown University Library.
Contact information: John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

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ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
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Additional Information

Inventory

Series I. General files, 1957-2003

Container Description Date
Box 1 Grossman, Herschel
Contents Note: Public Appropriation of Property Upon Death (Honors thesis).
Box 1 Grossman, Herschel
Contents Note: Undergraduate papers: Revenues and Expenditures in a Fiscal Program; The Plea for a Stable Price Rule--an Untenable Position; The Trap; The Case for Intervention; The Right Amount of Money Doctrine; The Quantity Theory--A Theoretical Exercise; Towards a More Effective Foreign AID Program; Eternal Economics and Government Intervention; Two Uses of the Concept of Equilibrium; The Road to Security; The Road to Full Employment--Strengthening the Beveridge Argument; Reevaluating Stagnation; Too Much of the Wrong Things; Commercial Loan Theory in the Federal Reserve System.
Box 1 Grossman, Herschel
Contents Note: Oxford Papers: Intervention the Forward Exchange Market; Dealing with Inflation; Intervention in the Foward Exchange Market; On Fluctuating Exchange Rates; Disequilibrium with Fixed Exchange Rates; The Basis and Significance of Welfare Propositions; Kaldor on Distribution; The Concept of the Keynesian Income Multriplier and its Monetary Mechanics; Distribution and Growth; Welfare Criteria and Public Expenditure Policy; Intervention in Industry; Government Intervention in Agriculture.
Box 1 Grossman, Herschel
Contents Note: Dissertation: Public Assets and Liabilities in a Macro-Economic Model (Johns Hoipkins University, 1965).
Box 1 I. Political Power and Private Right, Philosophy 25, Fall 1957 (Prof. Marcus Mallet). II. Logic, Philosophy 3, Spring 1958 (Prof. D.C. Yalden-Thomson).
 1957-1958
Box 1 Economics 102, General Equilibrium and Employment, Spring 1960 (Professor L.B. Yeager)
 1960
Box 1 Economics 101, Value and Price Theory, Fall 1959 (Professor G.W. Nutter)
Contents Note: Professor G.W. Nutter

 1959
Box 1 Economics 103, Monetary Theory, Fall 1958 (Prof. J.R. Schlesinger)
Contents Note: Prof. J.R. Schlesinger

 1958
Box 1 Economics 104
Contents Note: I. Money and Banking, tutorial, Fall 1958 (Professor J.R. Schlesinger). II. Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Spring 1959 (Professor J.R. Schlesinger).
Box 1 Akerlof, George Acemoglu, Daron
Box 1 Ades, Alberto
Box 1 Assorted thoughts
Box 1 Alesina, Alberto
Box 1 Alexander, Andrew
Box 1 Anderton, Charles
Box 1 Areand, Jean-Louis
Box 1 Athletics
Box 1 Azariadis, Costas
Box 1 Asuma, Yoshiaki
Box 1 Bakewell, Elizabeth
Box 1 Ball, Laurence
Box 1 Barro, Robert
Box 1 Benabou, Roland
Box 1 Benassy, Jean-Pascal
Box 1 Bordo, Michael
Box 1 Boschen, John
Box 1 Brams, Steven
Box 1 Brander, James
Box 1 Cairncross, Frances
Box 1 Carlton, Dennis
Box 1 Caselli, Francesco
Box 1 Christ, Carl F.
Box 1 Collier, Paul
Box 1 Conferences
Box 1 Shunto, RE and output growth in Japan
Box 1 Untitled
Box 1 Risk shifting and labor markets
Box 1 Unemployment and wage inflation
Box 1 [Employment fluctuations]
Box 1 [Old working notes]
Box 1 Grossman - Dolde
Box 1 Social security, fertility, and saving
Box 1 Uniqueness of commerical banks
Box 1 Notes on inflation and unemployment
Box 1 Math notes
Box 1 Acceluator
Box 1 Significance of ME property, flow
Box 1 One-hundred percent reserve banking
Box 1 Murray Commission
Box 1 Price Adjustment
Box 1 Burden of the debt
Box 1 Conference papers, etc.
Contents Note: Is Wage Response Asymmetrical?; Indexation of the Minimum Wage with Rational Expectations; Public Debt, Public Assets, and Public Policy for Growth; Estimation of a Dynamic Macro-Economic Model; The Appropriate Timing of Monetary Policy; The Relative Importance of Commerical Bank Behavior.
Box 1 National Bureau of Economics Research Conferences
Box 2 National Bureau of Economics Research
Box 2 Miron, Jeffrey
Box 2 Moselle, Boaz
Box 2 Muthoo, Abhinay
Box 2 Marcoviller, Douglas
Box 2 Marimon, Ramon
Box 2 McCallum, B.T.
Box 2 Mechner, Emily
Box 2 Mejia, Daniel
Box 2 Mendoza, Juan
Box 2 Luken, Robert
Box 2 Lyon, University of
Box 2 Malinvaud, Edmond
Box 2 Manchester University
Box 2 LeRoy, Stepehn
Box 2 Libraries
Box 2 Lindbeck, Assar
Box 2 Lotspeich, Rick
Box 2 Lucas, Robert E. (two folders)
Box 2 Kirman, Alan
Box 2 Kolmar, Martin
Box 2 Korea University
Box 2 Kornai, Janos
Box 2 Kwiatkowski, Mickey
Box 2 Laidler, David
Box 2 Lectures [announcements]
Box 2 Lee, Hanben Kim
Box 2 Leijonhufvud, Axel
Box 2 Howitt, Peter
Box 2 Indian Statistical Institute
Box 2 Institute for Humane Studies
Box 2 Israel Science Foundation
Box 2 Iyigun, Murat
Box 2 Jovanovic, Boyan
Box 2 Kanter, Raphael
Box 2 Kashyap, Anil
Box 2 Kates, Robert
Box 2 Keen, Michael
Box 2 Kennan, John
Box 2 Kim, Minseong
Box 2 King, Robert
Box 2 Gruber, Andy
Box 2 Guttman, Joel
Box 2 Han, Taejoon
Box 2 Hansmann, Hnery
Box 2 Hausken, Kjell
Box 2 Hillman, Arye
Box 2 Hirshleifer, Jack
Box 2 Gee, E. Gordon
Box 2 Gershenson, Dmitriy
Box 2 Glaeser, Edward
Box 2 Gonzalex, Francisco
Box 2 Gordon, Robert J.
Box 2 Gradstein, Mark
Box 2 Grossman, Betsy
Box 2 Fulbright
Box 2 Galor, Oded
Box 2 Garfinkel, Michelle
Box 2 Fan, Simon
Box 2 Fearon, James
Box 2 Fischel, William
Box 2 Fischer, Stanley
Box 2 Freidman, Bejamin
Box 2 Dixit, Avinash
Box 2 Ehrenberg, Ronald
Box 2 Eichengreen, Barry
Box 2 Ellerman, David
Box 2 Elliott, Lani
Box 2 Estaban, Joan
Box 2 Evrasia Foundation
Box 2 Expert Group on Development Issues
Box 2 Delaware, University of
Box 2 Cooley, Thomas
Box 2 Copyright Clearance Center
Box 2 Cosimano, Thomas
Box 2 Cotroneo
Box 2 Curran, Mark
Box 2 Dal Bo, Pedro
Box 2 General Disequilibrium without Recontracting
Box 2 Reading lists
Box 2 Economic Functions of Government
Box 2 Familial Love and Intertemporal Optimality
Box 2 Seater, John
Box 2 Setari, Giuliana
Box 2 Shiller, Robert
Box 2 Rogoff, Kenneth
Box 2 Romer, Paul
Box 2 Rosendorf, Peter
Box 2 Sachs, Jeffrey
Box 2 Russell Sage Foundation
Box 2 Sala-i-Martin, Xavier
Box 2 Sandler, Todd
Box 2 Rodrik, Dani
Box 2 Poole, William
Box 2 Portes, Richard
Box 2 Powell, Robert
Box 2 Przeworski, Adam
Box 2 Quah, Danny
Box 2 Quibria, M.G.
Box 2 Reuveny, Rafael
Box 2 Rice University
Box 2 Robinson, James
Box 2 Orphanides, Athanasios
Box 2 Overland, Jody
Box 2 Parkin, M.
Box 2 Paterson, Donald
Box 2 Pennsylvania, University of
Box 2 Pittsburg, University of
Box 2 Polachek, Solomon
Box 2 Poggi, Gianfranco
Box 2 Polak, Ben
Box 2 Pelicano, Andrew
Box 2 Polishchuk, Leonid
Box 2 Politicians
Box 2 NSF Reviews
Box 2 Nichols, Donald
Box 2 Noh, Suk Jae
Box 2 Olson, Mancur
Box 2 National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute
Box 2 Zak, Paul
Box 2 Weil, David
Box 2 Weil, Philippe
Box 2 Weingast, Barry
Box 2 West, Kenneth
Box 2 Woodford, Michael
Box 2 Wright, Gavin
Box 2 Yeager, Leland
Box 2 Venturini, Alessadro
Box 3 Virginia, University of
Box 3 Watson Institute
Box 3 Uvin, Peter
Box 3 Van Huyck, John
Box 3 Stein, Herbert
Box 3 Svensson, Lars
Box 3 Sylvester, Kevin
Box 3 Tabellini, Guido
Box 3 Tatom, Jack
Box 3 Taylor, John
Box 3 Tornell, Aaron
Box 3 Tullock, Gordon
Box 3 Usher, Dan
Box 3 Shojai, Siamack
Box 3 Singh, Nirvikak
Box 3 Skaperdas, Stergios
Box 3 Snower, Dennis
Box 3 Social Science Research Council (UK)
Box 3 Social Science Research Council (USA)
Box 3 Solow, Robert
Box 3 South Carolina, University of
Box 3 Spolaore, Enrico
Box 3 Sanhueza, Ricardo
Box 3 Sargent, Thomas
Box 3 Correspondence Terminated
Box 3 Correspondence with Robert Barro, 1969-1974
Box 3 Reprints
Box 3 Journal of Monetary Economics (refereeing)
Box 3 Journal of Monetary Economics (my submissions)
Box 3 Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, referee reports
Box 3 Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, submission
Box 3 Journal of Peace Research
Box 3 Journal of Policy Reform
Box 3 Journal of Political Economy (refereeing)
Box 3 Journal of Political Economy (submissions)
Box 3 Journal of Public Economics (refereeing)
Box 3 Journal of Public Economics (submissions)
Box 3 Keiron
Box 3 Kluwer Academic Publishers
Box 3 Labour
Box 3 Labour Economics
Box 3 Manchester School, The
Box 3 MIT Press, The
Box 3 Mathematical Social Sciences
Box 3 New Palgrave, The
Box 3 Newspapers, etc.
Box 3 Economic Modelling
Box 3 Economic notes
Box 3 Economic letters
Box 3 Economics and Philosophy
Box 3 Economics and Politics (refereeing)
Box 3 Economics and Politics (submissions)
Box 3 Economics of Governance
Box 3 Economics of Transition
Box 4 Elgar Publishing
Box 4 Empirical Economics
Box 4 European Journal of Political Economy (submissions)
Box 4 European Journal of Political Economy (refereeing)
Box 4 Explorations in Economic History
Box 4 Finance and Development
Box 4 Foreign Affairs
Box 4 Free Press, The
Box 4 Harper and Row
Box 4 Intercollegiate Review, The
Box 4 International Economic Review (submissions)
Box 4 International Economic Review (refereeing)
Box 4 International Finance
Box 4 Journal of Banking and Finance
Box 4 Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Box 4 Journal of Conflict Resolution (submission)
Box 4 Journal of Conflict Resolution (refereering)
Box 4 Journal of Development Economics (submissions)
Box 4 Journal of Development Economics (referee reports)
Box 4 Journal of Economic Behavoir and Organization
Box 4 Journal of Economic Growth
Box 4 Journal of Economic History
Box 4 Journal of Economic Literature
Box 4 Journal of Economic Perspectives
Box 4 Journal of Economic Theory
Box 4 Journal of Economics
Box 4 Journal of Economics and Business
Box 4 Journal of the European Economic Association (refereeing)
Box 4 Journal of the European Economic Association (submissions)
Box 4 Journal of Finance
Box 4 Journal of Human Resources
Box 4 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
Box 4 Journal of International Economics
Box 4 Journal of Labor Economics
Box 4 Journal of Law and Economics
Box 4 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Box 4 Journal of Macro Economics
Box 4 Journal of Macro Economics (review editor)
Box 4 Economic Journal (my submissions)
Box 4 American Economic Review (submissions)
Box 4 American Economic Review (refereeing)
Box 4 American Economist
Box 4 American Journal of Political Science
Box 4 Academic Questions
Box 4 American Political Science Review
Box 4 Asociacion Argentina de Economia Politica
Box 4 Basic Books, Inc.
Box 4 Bell Journal of Economics
Box 4 Blackwell
Box 4 Cambridge University Press
Box 4 Canadian Journal of Economics
Box 4 Cato Institute
Box 4 University of Chicago Press
Box 4 Ciencia Economica
Box 4 Commentary
Box 4 Conflict Management and Peace Science
Box 4 Constitutional Political Economy
Box 4 Cuadernos de Economia
Box 4 Defence Economics
Box 4 Econometrica (refereeing) two folders
Box 4 Econometrica (submissions) two folders
Box 4 Economic Development and Cultural Change
Box 4 Economic Inquiry (my submissions)
Box 4 Economic Inquiry (refereeing)
Box 4 Economic Journal (refereeing)
Box 4 Journal of Political Economy (my submissions)
Box 4 American Economics Review (my submissions)
Box 4 Six Hundred Thousand Men were Dead
Box 4 [Reprints]
Box 4 Revolutions
Box 4 Financial Aid
Box 5 [To Stephen LeRoy]
Box 5 Sovereign Debt
Box 5 New York Review
Box 5 North Holland Publishing Company
Box 5 Norton and Company
Box 5 Oxford Economic Papers
Box 5 Pacific Economic Review
Box 5 Prentice Hall
Box 5 Project Syndicate
Box 5 Public Choice
Box 5 The Public Interest
Box 5 Quarterly Journal of Economics (my submissions)
Box 5 Quarterly Journal of Economics (referrring)
Box 5 Scott, Foresman
Box 5 Southern Economic Journal
Box 5 Wall Street Journal
Box 5 Who's Who in Economics
Box 5 Review of Economics and Statistics
Box 5 American Economics Review (refereeing)
Box 5 [Counterfacutals, Forecasts, and Choice-Theoretic Modeling of Policy]
Box 5 Rand Journal of Economics
Box 5 Review of Development Economics
Box 5 Review of Economic Studies (refereeing)
Box 5 Review of Economic Studies (submissions)
Box 5 Revista Espanola de Economia
Box 5 Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Box 5 Science Research Associates
Box 5 Proprietary Government
Box 5 "Fifty-four, Forty, or Fight"
Box 5 Russell Sage Seminar
Box 5 A Theory of the Informal Sector
Box 5 The Viability of Anarchy
Box 5 Inequality, Predation, and Welfare
Box 5 The Creation of Effective Property Rights
Box 5 China Op-ed
Box 5 Reprints (others)
Box 5 Economics of Sports
Box 5 Peace and War transparencies
Box 5 Peace and War in Territorial Disputes
Box 5 Annexation or Conquest : The Building of the Roman Empire
Box 5 SSRC transparencies
Box 5 PTEP (Program in Technology and Economic Policy?)
Box 5 ConCon (Constitution or Conflict)
Box 5 Mafia
Box 5 War Finance
Box 5 Colonialism
Box 5 Civil Conflict : Ended or Never Ending
Box 5 Predators, Moral Decay, and Moral Revivals
Box 5 The State : Agent or Proprietor?
Box 5 Why Could it Happen?
Box 5 World Cup Heralds a New South Korea
Box 5 A Two-State Solution?
Box 5 Distribution transparencies
Box 5 [Educational Policy : Egalitarian or Elitist?] transparencies
Box 5 [Distrubutional Disputes and Civil Conflict]
Box 5 Constitution or Conflict?
Box 5 Timlin transparencies
Box 5 Inventors and Pirates