My curating strategy generally has been to post individual artifacts one by one with each limited to a specific university, a particular point in time

Princeton. General Exams on Theory for Economics PhD. 1953 through 1972

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My curating strategy generally has been to post individual artifacts one by one with each limited to a specific university, a particular point in time and a single course/field. But sometimes, just sometimes, I stumble upon a relatively complete, long-run of comparable artifacts to warrant lining them up into a single post.

In William J. Baumol’s papers in the Economists’ Papers Archives at Duke University, we find about two decades’ worth of post-war Ph.D. general exams in economic theory at Princeton.

Scans of the microeconomic theory general exams for 1987-1989 and 1990-1994 at Princeton can be downloaded from the Ed Tower Collection at Duke.

Discuss the problem of cost calculation and pricing in a multi-product firm, touching on problems like overhead costs and technical variability and invariability of output proportions.

Is there a theory of wages? Describe what has been done in the literature on the subject and indicate why the initial question might be raised at all.