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The collection is comprised of correspondence, manuscripts, teaching materials, conference materials, subject files, and printed items from William S. Vickrey's career as an economist. It contains published and unpublished papers illustrating his thoughts on various aspects of economic theory and their practical application. Topics discussed in these manuscripts involve macroeconomics, marginal cost pricing, microeconomics, political economy and welfare, public finance, social choice, taxation, transportation, urban economics, and related matters. The collection also has records from his tenure at Columbia University, including correspondence with his academic colleagues and participation in professional activities.
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William S. Vickrey was born in 1914 in Victoria, British Columbia. After earning a B.S. in mathematics from Yale University in 1935, he went on to Columbia University where he earned an M.A. (1937) and Ph.D. (1947) in Economics. During World War II, Vickrey served as an economist in the Tax Research Division of the U.S. Treasury Department. In 1946, Vickrey began his teaching career at Columbia, eventually becoming the McVickar Professor of Political Economy in 1971. His research career was prolific with over 100 books and articles published on a broad range of matters and he worked as a consultant on projects in the U.S. and abroad. Vickrey lectured extensively, participated in numerous professional organizations, supported efforts for world peace, and served as president of the American Economic Association in 1992. Shortly before his death on October 11, 1996, Vickrey was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information.".
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Correspondence sent to William S. Vickrey from senators, congressmen, and other economists. Includes letters from Carl Shoup to Vickrey and his colleagues at Columbia University. Arranged alphabetically by last name of sender.
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Correspondence to and from William S. Vickrey related to his career in economics. These letters include debates on economic theory, discussion of transportation issues, requests for references, proposals for grant projects, and reviews of other economists' papers. The series also has letters about symposiums, involvement with professional organizations, visits by other scholars, Quaker activities, publications, and comments by colleagues on his work. In addition, there is personal correspondence with his wife Cecile, mother, and friends. Arranged alphabetically by last name of sender.
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Typescripts, mimeograph masters, drafts, outlines, notes, and fragments of William S. Vickrey's papers, articles, reviews, and other economic documents. Various aspects of economic theory and application are discussed including macroeconomics, marginal cost pricing, microeconomics, social choice, taxation, transportation, urban economics, and related matters. Arranged alphabetically by subject designated by economic graduate students who previously inventoried Vickrey's papers or assigned by the author in his annotated bibliography. Many of the notes were also provided by Vickrey or the graduate students.
Papers, letters to the editor, reviews, essays, speeches, and incomplete parts of Vickrey's bookMetastatics and Macroeconomics. These papers focus mainly on government fiscal policy regarding balanced budgets, deficits, capital spending, unemployment, inflation, and social security. Also includes discussion of the fallacies of financial fundamentalism, markup warrants, interest rates, and related topics. Arranged alphabetically by title.
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[Published inAmerican Economic Review, 51, March 1961, 132-7. Superseded by later analysis.]
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[Paper for Levy Institute Meeting, Bard College, 25 June 1992. Discusses alternative criteria for defining a capital budget and the need for marketable markup warrants. The appendix is about the detailed operation of the markup warrant proposal.]
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[For presentation at session entitled "Achieving High Employment without Inflation", New Orleans, 4 Jan. 1991.]
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[Presented at Munich Conference 18 May 1992 and Prague/Bratislava Meetings 28 June-3 July, 1992.]
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[Shows a knowledge of econometrics.]
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[Appears to have been published inExtractive Resources and Taxation. Edited by Mason Gaffney. Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. Discusses implications of the perfect information model.]
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[Notes for a talk at Marymount.]
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[See also Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Establishment Economics, Box 14, Folder 217 and Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Fundamentalism, Box 14, Folder 218.]
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[See also Fatal Fallacies about Economies with Unemployment, Box 14, Folder 216 and Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Fundamentalism, Box 14, Folder 218.]
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[See also Fatal Fallacies about Economies with Unemployment, Box 14, Folder 216 and Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Establishment Economics, Box 14, Folder 217.]
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[Response to letter by Congressman Mark W. Neumann, 24 May 1995.]
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[See also My Innovative Failures in Economics, Box 32, Folder 576.]
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[Discusses which interest rate to use in analysis of long-term projects.]
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[Discusses government deficit.]
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[Discusses government deficit and full-employment economy.]
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[Argues against the Federal Reserve Board worries of overheating economy.]
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[A reasonably complete articulation of the deficit view. The paper discusses the failure of market to equilibrium, interest-insensitivity of investment, and markup warrants in an open economy.]
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[Abstract of paper for NTA Meetings, 13-16 Nov. 1994]
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[Paper for the Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Washington, 23 Nov. 1992. The paper discusses the rapid growth to genuine full employment, then maintenance of full employment by strong fiscal measures under control of an anti-inflation program such as markup warrants.]
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[Paper for session on "Deficits, Which, How Much, and So What?", New Orleans, 4 Jan. 1991. Published inPapers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, May 1992, 305-10. Discusses debt in a Georgist context, varieties of capital budgeting, deficits, unemployment, and growth.]
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[Discusses optimum government normal economy without capital but with money.]
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[Paper for Conference on Philanthropy, Sponsored by National Bureau of Economic Research and Merrill Center for Economics, 26-30 June 1961.]
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[Prepared for an address accepting the Seidman Award, Memphis, 24 Sept. 1992. Subsequently revised and published. Discusses reaching real full employment by vigorous fiscal policy with tradable gross markup warrants as an inflation control.]
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[Presidential address to the American Economic Association, Jan. 1993. Published inAmerican Economic Review, March 1993, 1-10. Discusses how to raise the economy rapidly to real full employment and keep it there through the use of vigorous public policy and controlling inflation with marketable markup warrants. One draft has comments from Carl Shoup, 17 Nov. 1992.]
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[Apparently a preliminary draft of a proposal for the anticipated Clinton Administration.]
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[Published inChallenge.]
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[Revision of talk to the Atlantic Economic Society, Philadelphia, 1993.]
Papers, reviews, articles, statements, essays, and notes about the pricing of natural resources and public utilities. Includes a notebook on postal rate and fee increases as well as his thoughts about efficient pricing, responsive pricing, peak load pricing, tolls and pollution. Arranged alphabetically by title.
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[Discusses the pricing of natural resources and the deviations from Hotelling's rule due to changes in expectations, increasing extraction cost, and technological change.]
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[Published inJournal of Transport Economics and Policy, 6(3), Sept. 1972, 257-70. Discusses pricing on the basis of a simulated futures market and Appendix I estimates the gain from responsive pricing.]
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[Discusses congestion on electrical networks (power factor) and equipment husbandry.]
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[Discussion Paper Series No. 404, Columbia University, August 1988. Discusses responsive pricing, power factor charges, lifeline rates, and subsidy from land taxation.]
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[Background paper for the Joint Economic Committee Study of "Economic Analysis of Public Expenditure: The PPB System." Discusses marginal cost pricing, subsidies, and the excess burden of taxation in the context of the "Program, Planning and Policy Budgeting System."]
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[Published inPublic Prices for Public Products. Edited by Selma J. Mushkin. Washington: Urban Institute, 1972.]
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[Concerns batch processing.]
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[Offers responsive pricing as an option to standard pricing.]
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[Published inResources and Energy, 14, 1992, 157-74. Discusses responsive pricing, power factor, formulation of subsidies, pricing of hydro power, and second-best considerations. ]
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[Draft for Proceedings: Marginal Costing and Pricing of Electrical Energy, Canadian Electrical Association with Canadian Bureau of Mines and Resources, Canada, 1-4 May 1978, pp. 38-58. See also Notes on Interruptible Power and Alternative Pricing Methods, Box 17, Folder 286.]
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[Prepared for a meeting on Argentina, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, 18-19 November 1991. Discusses that varying fare by time of day encourages staggered work hours and makes the point that making toll voluntary (or allowing people to wait in a lay-by) results in everyone being made better off by tolling a bottleneck.]
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[Published inUtility Regulation During Inflation. Edited by J. E. Haring and J. F. Humphrey. Glendale, California: Occidental College, 1971. Discusses the dangers of front-end loading of costs and double counting in inflationary circumstances.]
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[Paper prepared for presentation at the Symposium on Economics of Public Utilities, Airlie House, Warrenton, Va., 7-10 Sept. 1965]
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[Discusses responsive pricing and land taxes.]
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[An abbreviated version of this article was presented at the meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, 11 March 1983.]
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[Published inKyklow, 24(2), 1971, 305-29. Includes critique of a naive proposal for determining peak price differentials.]
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[Discusses short- and long-run relevant product mines, queuing, travel time, schedule delay, relevance to direct controls, bottleneck model, and marginal cost pricing.]
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[Notes for a talk at Lehigh University, 17 February [1990].]
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[Argues for time-of-day-pricing in New York City.]
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[See also Efficient Pricing Under Regulation: The Case of Responsive Pricing as a Substitute for Interruptible Power Contracts, Box 17, Folder 271.]
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[Discusses Ramsey pricing for public utilities.]
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[Notebook is related to Vickrey's role as witness in Docket No. RT4-1 regarding postal rate and fee increases.]
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[Incomplete manuscript of a book in years of gestation.]
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[Published inThe New Economics of Regulated Industries: Rate-Making in a Dynamic Economy. Edited by Joseph E. Haring. Los Angeles Economics Research Center, Occidental College, 1968.]
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[Postal Rate Commission testimony on the pricing and cost services of postal service. Vickrey argues for Ramsey pricing, discusses the economics of scale in postal service, and gives definition of marginal cost.]
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[Discusses responsive pricing for electricity.]
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[Paper for the IAEE-RFF Conference on International Energy Issues, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C., 4-6 June 1979. Published inInternational Energy Strategies. Proceedings of the 1978 International Association of Energy Economics. Edited by James Duesenberry. See also International Association of Energy Economists (IAEE) Annual Conference, Box 41, Folder 699.]
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[Published inEconomics of the Regulated Communications Industry in the Age of Innovation, 1970 Seminar, New England Telephone, pp. 61-8. Discusses the original suggestion for implementing short-run marginal-cost pricing in terms of separating flexible consumer payment rates set freely by the utility from utility retention rates set by regulatory procedures, with an escrow fund to absorb differences. Also has suggestion for low-cost metering technology.]
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[The hearing was held in County Center, White Plains, New York, 24 Jan. 1979. Discusses tolling as a way to reduce pollution.]
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[The statement concerns user charges on inland waterways and competition with railroads.]
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[Discusses lifeline pricing of telephone service to the poor.]
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[Discusses marginal cost pricing of public utilities.]
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[The testimony argues for peak-load pricing and time-of-day metering, describes possible technologies, and provides definitions of marginal cost and Ramsey pricing.]
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[Listed as forthcoming,Land Economics, Feb. 1992.]
Primarily outline, illustrations, bibliography, appendices, errata, and notes for Vickrey's graduate level textbookMicrostaticspublished in 1964. Also includes his review of "The Taxation of Income from Capital." Arranged alphabetically by title.
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Papers, book reviews, and an outline of remarks on the subjects of social science, world development, poverty, and corporate giving. Arranged alphabetically by title.
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[Outline of remarks prepared for delivery to the Institute for Religion and Social Studies, 26 Oct. 1969. Discusses the fairly drastic measures required for eliminating poverty by redistribution.]
A paper on tax cuts, a book review concerning taxation, and notes regarding land tax and how tax policies encourage investment. Arranged alphabetically by title.
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[Notes for a discussion oat Great Barrington, 19-21 Aug. 1993. Discusses cumulative averaging and categorization of types of investment.]
Papers, reviews, and notes about social choice and welfare. Topics addressed include auctions, game theory, demand revealing procedures, equity, justice, and related societal issues. Arranged alphabetically by title.
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[Published inPublic Transfers and Some Private Alternatives During the Recession. Schriften des Internationalen Institute fur Empirische Sozialokonomie, Band 7(II). Edited by Martin Pfaff. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1983. Discusses the power of an agenda setter in social choice procedures and methods of avoiding such bias.]
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[Published inRecent Advances in Game Theory, The Princeton University Conference, 1962, 15-27. Includes further mathematical analysis of various types of auctions in terms of game theory and in relation to Pareto efficiency.]
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[Published inBidding and Auctioning for Procurement and Allocation. Studies in Game Theory and Mathematical Economics. Edited by Yakow Amihud. New York University Press, 1976. Previously presented at a conference at NYU in 1974. Contains non-mathematical overview and notes.]
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[Published inSocial Research, 46(2), 1979, 272-81. Discusses the concepts of equity, and how especially naive concepts can be in sharp conflict with economic efficiency.]
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[Drafts accompanied by pages of algebra, correspondence, and copy of "How Income Ought to be Distributed: A Paradox in Distributive Ethics" by Robert H. Strotz.]
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[Defends expected utility as measure of satisfaction.]
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[Discusses Rawls, Nozick, and equity in economics.]
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[Published inRetrospective on Public Finance. Edited by Loraine Eden. Duke University Press, 1991. Discusses the tax's effects on the economy, political popularity incidence in relation to macroeconomic policy, replacement with withholding tax, cumulative assessment, regression-based allocation of income by source, and the replacement of the foreign tax credit.]
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[For presentation at the Manhattan Institute session, Century Club, 1 April 1992. Discusses leveling the playing field for capital gains, methods of eliminating the baneful effects of the corporate income tax, rationalization of formulas for allocation of income among jurisdictions, and replacing the foreign tax credit with a separation of the income tax into a normal source-based tax and a destination-based surtax.]
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[Published inModern Fiscal Issues: Essays in Honor of Carl S. Shoup. Edited by Richard M. Bird and John G. Head. University of Toronto Press, 1972. Review of some of the possible causes for failure of adoption.]
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[Paper for conference on "Tax Losses in Turkey and Preventative Measures", Istanbul, 25-27 Oct. 1977. See also Economic and Social Studies Conference Board of Turkey Conference, Box 40, Folder 693.]
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[Makes reference to a paper by Vickrey: "Can Excises Lower Prices"Essays in Economics and Econometrics: A Volume in Honor of Harold Hotelling. Edited by Ralph W. Pfouts. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1962.]
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[German translation reprinted in Finanztheory, Horst Claus Recktenwald, Herausgeber, Köln, Kiepenhauer and Witech, 1969, pp. 425-33. Discusses the capital gains issue.]
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[Published inSmall Comforts for Hard Times. Edited by Michael Mooney and Florian Stuber. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Discusses Rawls, Utilitarianism, Pareto efficient redistribution, and redistributive public finance.]
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[Paper for a Session on "New Concepts of Taxation", COPE Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 8-12 January 1992. Discusses the problems in use- and state-neutral assessment.]
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[Paper for Brookings Conference, 19-20 Oct. 1978. Discusses cumulative assessment under a consumption tax, a net worth tax to replace estate and gift taxes, and cumulative averaging under an expenditures tax.]
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[Prepared for presentation at the Symposium on the Land Tax in Honor of Professor Harry Gunnison Brown, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., 6 April 1973. Discusses the switch from current system to land value taxation, the objection that a sudden shift expropriates legitimately acquired values does not hold when this is the result of shifting from other localized taxes, and that owners of land can gain from increased land taxation.]
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[Prepared for Taxation with Representation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public interest tax lobby that deals solely with federal tax issues.]
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[Published inLaw and Contemporary Problems: Tax Simplification and Reform, 34(4), Autumn 1969, 736-50. Argues that cumulative averaging be viewed as a master stroke of simplification, in spite of being reportedly rejected out of hand as too complicated.]
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[Published inPapers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, March 1992, 257-62. Discusses capital gains, inflation, corporate income tax, undistributed profits tax, transnational incomes, tax-exempt bonds, home ownership, and leisure.]
Papers, reviews, letters to the editor, essays, statements, outlines, speeches, reports, and notes regarding the numerous economic aspects of transportation. These materials reflect his observations on transit fares, automation, road pricing, parking, land use, toll systems, airline timetables, subway scheduling, transfers, highway use, direct current traction, and methods of examining transportation demand for pricing. Vickrey proposes solutions to the problems with congestion, pollution, subway service, parking allocation, inadequate maps, traffic accidents, financing, signaling, politics, and inefficient use of transportation infrastructure. In addition, some documents address the specific transportation concerns in New York City, Caracas, Buenos Aires, Washington, D.C., Tehran, Korea, and the Netherlands. Arranged alphabetically by title.
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[Includes algorithm for itineraries, examples, and other notes.]
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[Comments on a proposal by Professor Charles Libove in Transportation Engineering Journal, 1973. Discusses overlength trains, skip stop scheduling, and "overlap" scheduling. Includes appendix on "The Effects of various operational modes on volume of service."]
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[Makes reference to a computer program for train control.]
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[Draft of a proposed Congressional Budget Office paper with some marginal comments.]
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[Discusses the implementation of peak-load pricing in New York City anticipating a bottleneck model with heterogeneous users.]
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[Argument on the basis of which Vickrey claimed that the marginal cost pricing of a trip in Manhattan on a weekday is $1,000.]
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[For presentation at a meeting of the American Economic Association, 28 Dec. 1968. Discusses optimal investment, with and without congestion pricing.]
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[The proposal suggests using automatic digitalized radio signals.]
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[Outline of presentation at VPI Conference on the Environment, 17 Oct. 1972.]
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[Concerned with the mechanical aspects of phasing-in an efficient fare structure.]
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[Confidential report to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Comments on skip stop scheduling, brake wear, coordination between platforms of trains, push-pull service, and express service.]
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[Published inContemporary Economic Issues. Edited by Neil Chamberlain. Irwin, 1969. A wide-ranging discussion of urban transportation issues.]
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[Notes hypercongestion as a queuing reservoir.]
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[Published inProceedings International Symposium, "Man and Transport", Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 3-7 Sept. 1973. Discusses congestion charges and the lack of burden on non-driving poor. See also International Symposium "1973 Man and Transport", Box 41, Folder 701.]
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[Technical Note No. 10, Task No. 23.]
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[Discusses the application of auctions to allocation of parking space within, say, a university.]
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[Notes for testimony for NYC Controller's Office, 2 Dec. 1992. Discusses congestion pricing, subway fares and service, utility rates, and site value taxation.]
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[Discusses the design of traction engine for buses and includes circuit diagrams and notes. See also Low Loss DC Traction for Rapid Transit Service, Box 26, Folder 445.]
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[Prepared for Conference on the Economics of Public Output, Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research, 26-27 April 1968. Discusses marginal costs in relation to insurance, traffic density, tort law, and administrative costs.]
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[Discusses New York City.]
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[Superseded presumably by computers.]
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[Discusses more efficient use of existing subway capacity.]
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[Advocates time-varying tolls and peak-load pricing in New York City.]
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[Discusses tolls.]
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[Discusses parking meters and cards.]
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[Includes circuit diagrams.]
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[See also Energy Saving in Direct Current Traction, Box 25, Folder 427.]
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[Sketch of remarks for Engineering Dean's Day, Columbia University. Argues that rational use requires collaboration among engineers, economists, and politicians with special attention to efficient pricing of alternatives.]
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[Discusses parking vouchers.]
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[For Econometric Society--Association for the Study of Grants Economy, San Francisco, 29 Dec. 1974. Covers a litany of inefficiencies: monumentalism and other biases in favor of large-scale capital outlays; over-generous pensions and other forms of political time-bomb planting; transit service with small cross-section, shorter station platforms, low train weight per unit length, and high frequency under continuous control and skip-stop scheduling through bottlenecks; fares simulating futures markets for car ferries and airline seats; schedule coordination; and transit fares on a marginal social cost basis.]
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[Possibly notes for discussion of a paper at an AEA meeting.]
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[Discusses New York City transit.]
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[For presentation at Henry George Breakfast, University Club, 15 Oct. 1991.]
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[Various recommendations for sources and uses of funds in New York City.]
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[Discusses optimal transit subsides. ]
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[Discusses New York City subway map.]
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[Thorough set of notes with a discussion of hypercongestion and comments on shadow value of urban land and transit service.]
Box 27 Folder 467
[Version 6. Part of Discussion Paper Series, Columbia University, Aug. 1987. Discusses fares, fare systems, subsidies, economic infrastructure design, cost-benefit analysis of operating methods, automatic control and signaling for higher frequencies and regularity, energy saving traction.]
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[Published inJournal of Transport Economics and Policy, 1(2), Jan. 1967, 123-36. Discusses marginal cost pricing for control of congestion and optimal timing of construction.]
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[Includes design of an algorithm.]
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[Includes a list of research topics.]
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Box 28 Folder 475
[For Princeton Contract AID/csd-159.]
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[For Princeton Contract AID/csd-159.]
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[For Conference on Transport Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research, 26-27 April 1963.]
Box 28 Folder 479
[For presentation at the meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Shoreham Americana, 15 Jan. 1979.]
Box 28 Folder 480
[Published inAmerican Economic Review, 52(2), May 1963, 452-65. Discusses a litany of inefficiencies related to departures of prices from short-run marginal social cost.]
Box 28 Folder 481
[Outline of paper for ICT Conference, Denver, 1973.]
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[Overview and new material using intersection queuing theory to compute tolls at intersections and optimal signaling.]
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[Discusses engineering aspects of subways, skip stop scheduling, and other methods of improving subway service.]
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[Very sketchy.]
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[Prepared for United Nations. ]
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[Outline of discussion to be presented at the National Seminar on Urban Transportation for Tomorrow, Denver, 7 May 1969.]
Box 29 Folder 494
[Comments on the various methodological and definitional difficulties with the analysis by Paul McDevitt inThe Logistics and Transportation Review, 1976, pp. 233-49.]
Box 29 Folder 495
[Transportation Economicsby Herbert Mohring, Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1976.]
Box 29 Folder 496
[A revised and condensed version of the Mayor's Committee monograph later published inOperations Research for Management. Vol. III. Edited by Joseph F. McClosky and John Coppinger. John Hopkins, 1956.]
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[Discusses New York City.]
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[Discusses congestion pricing. ]
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[Includes actual proposed schedule. ]
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[Discusses suburban service. ]
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[Includes algorithm for itineraries, notes, and examples.]
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[An abridged version of the testimony was prepared for publication. Contains original proposal for finely adjusted congestion pricing with automatic vehicle identified (AVI) units and roadside scanning points.]
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[Disputes the disposition of the "Energy Conservation Bond Issue".]
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[Submitted on behalf of The Environmental Defense Fund.]
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[Discusses New York City.]
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[Published inTransportation and Engineering Journal, May 1975, 395-9. Suggests that the skip-stop operation plus trains 30 percent longer than standard platforms could increase seating capacity by 70 percent, superior to the suggestion of Charles Libove, Ibid. Nov. 1973 for double-stopping of double-length trains, or eliminating seats altogether.]
Box 30 Folder 522
[Summary review and classification including discussion of turbulence, triggernecks, traffic lights, stochasticity, and bathtub models.]
Box 30 Folder 523
[For Unorthodox Approaches to Urban Transportation: The Emerging Challenge to Conventional Planning, Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 16-17 Nov. 1972, pp. 22-37.]
Papers, reviews, models, and notes proposing resolutions to urban issues. Includes descriptions of the efficient city, urban development, taxation, land valuation, transportation, and strategies for making New York City work. Arranged alphabetically by title.
Box 30 Folder 524
[Includes Appendix A. One Dimensional Model of Area Optimization.]
Box 30 Folder 525
[Published inThe Economics of Public Services. Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economics Association at Turin. Edited by Martin S. Feldstein and Robert F. Inman. London: MacMillian, New York: Wiley, 1977. The original locus of the thesis that in a world of perfect competition among cities, urban land rents in each city will be just sufficient to finance the subsidies required to permit marginal cost pricing of the goods and services produced under conditions of increasing returns to scale, the availability of which is responsible for the agglomeration of the city. See also The Efficient City, Box 30, Folder 528.]
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[Published inThe Assessment of Land Value. A Symposium sponsored by the Committee on Taxation, Resources and Economic Development. Edited by Daniel M. Holland. Madison, London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. Discusses practical and conceptual problems in assessing land values, the notion of a standard condition, problems of parcels in substantially substandard condition, and the effects of assembly or subdivision, internalization of externalities in large holdings.]
Box 30 Folder 528
[Establishes the relationship between land rents and transport costs. See also The City as a Firm, Box 30, Folder 525.]
Box 31 Folder 529
[Published inProceedings of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. 1969. An initial foreshadowing of the thesis relating urban land rents to subsidies needed for marginal cost pricing and the problems with decentralization of efficient allocation.]
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[For COPE Meeting, 9 Jan. 1992.]
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[Published inProceedings of the 62nd National Tax Conference, Boston, Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 1969. Columbus, Ohio: National Tax Association. Contains a concentric model in which taxing buildings lowers land values at the centre and increases them in the periphery. See also Notes on the Land Tax, Box 31, Folder 538.]
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[Published inChallenges of the Changing Economy of New York City, 1992. New York: Baruch College, New York City Council on Economic Education, 1992. Discusses market-clearing parking charges, time-of-day bridge and tunnel tolls, congestion charges, replacement of business and improvement taxes by land taxes, bringing utility rates and transit fares closer to marginal social cost, improving transit service, and shifting from incarceration to strict parole conditions, strictly enforced by electronic devices and low cash loads. Also includes bathtub model.]
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[See also The Impact on Land Values of Taxing Buildings, Box 31, Folder 532.]
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[For conference on Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, Georgetown University. Discusses GHV theorem and decentralization.]
Box 31 Folder 541
[For TRED, 29-30 Sept. and Levy Institute, 2-4 Nov.]
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[Notes for a talk at St. John's University, 17 Oct. 1991. Argues that in an imperfect world, a city which priced public services at marginal cost would reap the gains.]
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[Notes for talk at Scarsdale Adult School, 10 Nov. 1991]
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[Very sketchy.]
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[Previously announced title "The Social Opportunity Cost of Land". Paper prepared for the Second Conference on Urban Public Expenditure at New York University, sponsored by the Committee on Urban Economics of Resources for the Future, Inc., 21-22 Feb. 1964. Discusses in freight transport and raises issues of unpriced congestion.]
Box 31 Folder 550
[Discusses education, police, pollution, urban transport (trucks), and utilities. See also General and Specific Financing of Urban Services, Box 46, Folder 760.]
Papers, notes, reviews, essays, statements, lists, teaching materials, and fragments about assorted subjects of interest to Vickrey. Contains discussions of theory, insurance, public services, foreign economic systems, conflict resolution, computer applications, methods of economic measurement, higher education, politics, sociology, and minor diversions. Arranged alphabetically by title.
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[Includes comments on paper by H. Wold.]
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[Discusses produced durables.]
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[For Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, Montreal, 19 Oct. 1967]
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[Presented as The Frank Tannenbaum Lecture to the 48th Annual Meeting of the University Seminars at Columbia University, 22 April 1992. Brief statement with equations on cumulative averaging and background to innovative failures.]
Box 32 Folder 562
[Notes for talk to General Education Seminar. Provides insight into Vickrey's moral views.]
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[Notes related to Russia and peace.]
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[Discusses financing higher education.]
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[Argues against tenure.]
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[Illustrates Vickrey's mathematical creativity.]
Box 32 Folder 574
[Argues against using a payroll tax to finance medical insurance and makes the point that making medical insurance part of payroll tax is distortionary.]
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[Presidential Address to the Atlantic Economic Association, Plymouth, Mass., 16 Oct. 1992. Published inAtlantic Economic Journal, March 1993, 1-9. Discusses tax reform, marginal cost pricing, and full employment. See also How Successful as Innovators Have Economists Been?, Box 14, Folder 223.]
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[Discusses adverse selection and argues against stiffening requirements.]
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[Apparently algorithms developed for numerical illustrations.]
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[Discusses typology of pure forms.]
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[Mainly names and telephone numbers.]
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[For United Nations. Contains practical recommendations for applying cumulative averaging, marginal cost pricing, etc.]
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[Preliminary report on a research project under the auspices of The Columbia Social Science Research Council and presented at the Conference on World War II in the West, Amsterdam, 4-9 Sept. 1950.]
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[Argues that unemployment is worse than inflation.]
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[Related to the problem of processing data for congestion pricing.]
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[Notes for the University Seminar on Peace, 26 Oct. 1976]
Box 34 Folder 604
[Disagrees with Stigler Committee on treatment of insurance.]
Box 34 Folder 605
[Concerns user charges on Island Waterways. Includes statement of why Vickrey considers efficiency to be of paramount importance.]
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[Argues for better regulation in New York City.]
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[Attempts to algorithmize.]
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[Mainly rough drafts of lecture notes and exams.]
Box 34 Folder 617
Box 34 Folder 618
[Notes on half a dozen different problems.]
Correspondence with administrators, fellow professors, students, visitors, librarians, and others involved in university activities. Also includes exams, papers, course syllabi, reading lists, seminar presentations, and other teaching materials used by Vickrey during his career. Arranged alphabetically by topic.
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Programs, schedules, correspondence, publicity, discussion transcripts, and related materials about the participants, travel arrangements, topics to be debated, chairmanship duties, and comments on proposed presentations. Includes correspondence and other papers about the American Economic Association (AEA) 1991 Annual Meeting organized by Vickrey. The meeting files detail the proposed sessions, papers submitted for presentation, organization of joint programs, and further planning information. Arranged alphabetically by conference title.
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[Held in Istanbul, 25-27 Oct. 1977. See also Design of Taxes to Minimize Evasion, Box 22, Folder 366.]
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[Held in Beijing, 10-12 Nov. 1992.]
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[Held in Washington, D.C., 3 June 1992.]
Box 40 Folder 696
[Held at Michigan State University, 17-18 June 1957.]
Box 40 Folder 697
[Held in Washington, D.C., 13-18 July 1969.]
Box 41 Folder 698
[Held at Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, 12 May 1966.]
Box 41 Folder 699
[Held in Washington, D.C., 4-6 June 1979. See also Responsive Pricing Based on Marginal Cost as a Means of Promoting Efficient Energy Usage, Box 19, Folder 307.]
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[Held in Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 3-7 Sept. 1973. See also Detailed Pricing of Urban Transportation Services: The Essential Key to Efficient Urban Transportation, Box 25, Folder 421.]
Box 41 Folder 702
[Held at the American University, 16 June 1969.]
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[Held 17-19 Sept. 1975.]
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[Held in Boston, Mass., 29 Sept.-3 Oct. 1969.]
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[Held at the Bald Peak Colony Club, Melvin Village, New Hampshire, 17-19 June 1970.]
Box 41 Folder 707
[Held in Taoyuan, Taiwan, Aug. 1970.]
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[Held at Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, 25 Feb.-1 March 1974.]
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[Held at the University of Wisconsin, 16-18 June 1969.]
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Box 42 Folder 711
[Held at the University of Wisconsin, 13-15 June 1966.]
Box 42 Folder 712
[Held at the University of Wisconsin, 5-8 1967.]
Box 42 Folder 713
[Held at the University of Wisconsin, 20-22 Oct. 1972.]
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[Held at the University of Wisconsin, 17-19 June 1968.]
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[Held at the University of Wisconsin, 14-16 June 1965.]
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[Held at the University of Wisconsin, 23-25 Oct. 1971.]
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[Held at the University of Wisconsin, 17-19 Aug. 1964.]
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[Held in Bucharest, Hungary, 26 May-20 June 1975.]
Box 42 Folder 721
[Held at the Economic Institute of the World Bank, 14 July-22 Aug. 1980.]
Correspondence, notes, bibliographies, papers, lists, press clippings, and other documents reflecting Vickrey's research interests and efforts to have his work published. Also includes correspondence, notes, financial records, travel arrangements, and other information about his consulting projects, often overseas. Arranged alphabetically by topic.
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[Entries are classified and often include comments, apparently written by Vickrey.]
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[Includes part of draft report and notes on income tax.]
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[Includes information on property taxes.]
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[Vickrey's efforts to have text on Theoretical Economics published.]
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[Includes information on project with Carl Shoup. ]
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Reprints of papers written by Vickrey and his colleagues, issues of journals, and related economic ephemera. Arranged alphabetically by title.
Box 45 Folder 747
[Reprint fromThe Journal of Political Economy, Vol. XLVII, No. 3, June 1939. Developed as a result of work on the treatment of capital gains under Carl Shoup for the U.S. Treasury.]
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[Reprint fromThe Assessment of Land Value, edited by Daniel M. Holland, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, and London, 1970.]
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[Reprint fromTraffic Engineering Magazine, Nov. 1954. An early approach to traffic problems by the application of short-run marginal social cost concepts.]
Box 46 Folder 756
[Reprint fromResources and Energy, 14 (1992), pp. 157-174.]
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[Reprint from "The Manchester School", Jan. 1957]
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[Reprint fromPublic Expenditure Decisions in the Urban Community, edited by Howard G. Schaller, Resources for the Future, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1963. See also User Charges as Alternatives to Building Taxes, Box 31, Folder 550.]
Box 46 Folder 761
[Published for Illinois Central Railroad commuters.]
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Box 46 Folder 763
[Reprint fromTAXES--The Tax Magazine, Aug. 1944. The bequeathing power method of achieving neutrality among methods of devolution.]
Box 46 Folder 764
[Reprint fromJournal of Economic Theory, Vol. 3, No. 4, Dec. 1971.]
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[Official publication of The National Welfare Rights Organization]
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[International Honor Society in Economics]
Box 46 Folder 769
[Reprint fromAmerican Economic Review, Vol. VIII, No. 2, May 1963.]
Box 46 Folder 770
[Reprint fromProceedings of the Intersociety Conference on Transportation, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1973.]
Box 46 Folder 771
[Reprint fromThe Tax Executive, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, Oct. 1965.]
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[Reprint fromThe Journal of Political Economy, Vol. LVI, No. 3, June 1948. Provides answers to the objections.]
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[Reprint fromThe New York Times, 1973.]
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[Reprint fromAtlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1, March 1994.]
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