The Collected Economics Articles of Harold Hotelling

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. The Life and Economic Thought of Harold Hotelling

   1. The Life and Economic Thought of Harold Hotelling

      • Adrian C. Darnell

      Pages 1-28

3. Bibliography of Harold Hotelling

   1. Bibliography of Harold Hotelling

      • Adrian C. Darnell

      Pages 29-35

4. Reprints of the Published Economics Papers by Harold Hotelling

   1. A General Mathematical Theory of Depreciation

      • Harold Hotelling

      Pages 36-49

   2. Stability in Competition

      • Harold Hotelling

      Pages 50-63

   3. The Economics of Exhaustible Resources

      • Harold Hotelling

      Pages 64-92

   4. Edgeworth’s Taxation Paradox and the Nature of Demand and Supply Functions

      • Harold Hotelling

      Pages 93-122

   5. Note on Edgeworth’s Taxation Phenomenon and Professor Garver’s Additional Condition on Demand Functions

      • Harold Hotelling

      Pages 123-124

   6. Demand Functions with Limited Budgets

      • Harold Hotelling

      Pages 125-136

   7. Curtailing Production Is Anti-Social

      • Harold Hotelling

      Pages 137-140

   8. The General Welfare in Relation to Problems of Taxation and of Railway and Utility Rates

      • Harold Hotelling

      Pages 141-165

   9. The Relation of Prices to Marginal Costs in an Optimum System

      • Harold Hotelling

      Pages 166-170

   10. A Final Note

       • Harold Hotelling

       Pages 171-173

   11. Income-Tax Revision as Proposed by Irving Fisher

       • Harold Hotelling

       Pages 174-178

5. Back Matter

   Pages 179-179

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In 1985 I first began my research on the life and work of Harold Hotel­ ling. That year, Harold Hotelling's widow had donated the collection of his private p:;tpers, correspondence and manuscripts to the Butler Library, Columbia University. This is a most appropriate place for them to reside, in that Hotelling's most productive period as an active researcher in eco­ nomics and statistics coincides with the years when he was Professor of Mathematical Economics at Columbia (1931-1946). The Hotelling Collection comprises some 13,000 separate items and contains numerous unpublished letters and manuscripts of great importance to historians of economics and statistics. In the course of the following year I was able, with the generous financial assistance of the Nuffield Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy and the University of Durham, to spend six weeks over the Easter period working on the collection. I returned to New York in September 1986 while on sabbatical leave from the University of Durham, and I spent most of the following eight months examining the many documents in the collection. During that academic year I was grateful to Columbia University who gave me the title of Visiting Research Professor and gave me the freedom to work in their many well-stocked libraries.

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