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History of Economic Thought: Survey of Course Outlines in Universities in Canada and the United States of America

The History of Economic Thought plays an important role in the economics curriculum, which is usually offered to third or fourth year students majoring in economics. The intent of the survey was to provide the reader with information on books and journal articles assigned to students, weights used in the computation of grades, pre-requisites for enroll ment in the courses, frequency or heavily used books and journal articles by universities; and new trends, if any, introduced in the teaching of courses in the history of economic thought for the last 10 years. To fulfill the above mentioned objectives, a sample of 98 (ninety eight) North American universities (including the South, North, East and West of the United States) were chosen to be surveyed. A questionnaire was prepared and directed to heads of economics departments requesting current information on course out lines and readings. A reminder was sent to non-respondents one month after the initial inquiry requesting their cooperation in transmit ting the data at their earliest convenience. A few handbooks and guides unique in indexing of North American universities and their academic programmes were consulted to obtain the information pertaining to the selection of universities where the graduate program in teaching and research in economics is consid ered to be strong in North America. The reference books consulted were: