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162 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES Economics 1 and 2, or their equivalent, do additional reading assigned in Wagner, Cohn, Beaulieu, and other writers, and also prepare one extended paper, or two shorter ones, on topics connected with the course. Fall and winter terms, three-fifths study. Professor KINLEY. Required. Economics 1. 3a. FINANCIAL HISTORY OP THE UNITED STATES.—This course begins with Hamilton's administration of the treasury. It deals with the growth and management of the national debt, and with the industrial expansion and the tariff history of the country. While the necessary logical separation is observed in the treatment of these subjects, their intimate connection is also emphasized and the economic development of the country as a whole is studied. The course may be taken as a graduate course on conditions similar to those laid down in 3. For graduate students the course will be purely investigative. They must, however, attend the lectures and report from time to time the results of their special investigations and summaries of their additional assigned reading. Fall and -winter terms, three-fifths study. Professor KINLEY. Required: Economics 1. {Not given in 1896—97.) 4. STATE AND LOCAL TAXATION IN THE UNITED STATES. —This course is a comparative study of taxation in the various states, and also in the cities so far as they present features of special interest. Special attention is given to taxation in Illinois. Those who take this course should take Political Science 8 at the same time; those in the Political Science group who are specializing in Economics must take it. Spring term, three-fifths study. Professor KINLEY. Required: Economics 1. (Not given in 1896-97'.) 4a. TAXATION.—The theory of taxation, modes of taxation, incidence, etc., are carefully discussed. /Spring term, threefifths study. Professor KINLEY. Required: Economics 3 or 3a. 5. RAILROAD PROBLEMS.—This is a short course designed to familiarize the student with the problems of railway management in their economic, social, and legal aspects. Comparison is made of the development of railroad transportation and its regulation in Europe and the United States. Bates,
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