William Parker papers

This page includes selected unpublished papers from the William Nelson Parker papers at Yale University.  

• "Seminar on the Scope of Economic History" (1952) - given at Yale University

• "The Uses of Economics in Historical Studies" (1954) - faculty lecture at Williams College

• "A History of Economic Growth in America" (1955) - outline

• "Seminar Notes on the Scope of Economic History" (1961) - presentation given in Gerschenkron's seminar at Harvard in March 1961

• "Economic Movement and the Diffusion of Technology and Social Change" (1962) 

• "Letter to Professor Moses Abramovitz, September 15, 1967" (1967) - response to EHA panel on slavery, published in the JEH here.

• "Capitalism: Southern Style" (1981) - prepared for a conference on Continutiy vs. Change in Southern Economic Development, held at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, April 2-4, 1981

• "Productivity Measurement: History, Uses, and Limits" (1987) - presentation at AEA meetings

• Economic History in the Education of Economists: A Manifesto (undated) - essay about role of economic history in economics that was circulated to prominent economic historians