Harold J. Barnett Papers (WUA00066), 1943-1979 | WUA University Archives

Collection Overview

Title: Harold J. Barnett Papers (WUA00066), 1943-1979

ID: WUA/03/wua00066

Extent: 11.0 Linear Feet

Arrangement: The collection is organized into three series as detailed below: Series 01: Research related to television (arranged alphabetically by subject) Series 02: Research related to environmental issues (arranged alphabetically by subject) Series 03: Publications (arranged alphabetically by subject)

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection contains the papers of Harold J. Barnett and includes his research notes on both television and environmental-related issues and his publications.

Collection Historical Note

Harold J. Barnett was born in 1917 in Paterson, New Jersey. He died February 1987 in St. Louis, Missouri

B.S. University of Arkansas, 1939 M.S. University of California, Berkeley, 1941 M.A. Harvard University, 1948 Ph.D., Harvard University, 1952

Senior Economist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 1952-1955 Professor of Economics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1959-1963 (and Department Chairman 1959-1961)

Professor of Economics, Washington University, 1963-1981 Chair of Economics Department, 1963-1966 Professor Emeritus of Economics, Washington University, 1981-1987

Dr. Barnett was hired by Chancellor Eliot in 1963 as part of a plan to further develop several departments within the College of Arts and Sciences, including the Department of Economics. Barnett was selected because his work transformed the Department of Economics at Wayne State. In 1964, as chair of the Department of Economics at Washington University, Barnett hired Dr. Murray Weidenbaum, who later succeeded him as chair of the department in 1966.

Barnett’s teaching and research focus was on natural resources, energy, and economic development. He wrote numerous papers and publications; the Olin Library system holds some of these titles.

Additional biographical information is in Washington University in St. Louis, A History by Ralph Morrow, page 549.

Administrative Information

Repository: WUA University Archives

Accruals: Accruals are interfiled with the collection.

Access Restrictions: Open

Use Restrictions:

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Acquisition Method: This material was donated to the University Archives before 1973. Additional material was donated on April 4, 1973.

Preferred Citation: [Item description]. From the [collection title, series, box, folder]. University Archives, Washington University in St. Louis.

Processing Information: Processed by University Archives staff. Finding aid revised by Sarah Pabarcus in September 2006. Finding aid revised by Margarita Tschomakoff in January 2012.

Finding Aid Revision History: This finding aid was entered into Archon by Bianca Lopez in June 2012.

Box and Folder Listing

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Series 3: Publications (arranged alphabetically by subject)

Box 1

Folder 1: Barnett: Television and Communications Publications, 1974: List of publications by Barnett and Edward Greenberg, 1962 - 1974
Folder 2: Barnett: "Are Minerals Costing More?", 1981
Folder 3: Barnett, "The Bauxite Cartel in the New International Economic Order", 1979
Folder 4: Barnett, "The Best Way to Get More Varied TV Programs", 1968
Folder 5: Barnett - Bibliography, Correspondence, n.d.
Folder 6: Barnett - Book Reviews, 1971, 1974, 1975
Folder 7: Barnett, "The Changing Relations of Natural Resources to National Security", 1958
Folder 8: Barnett - Comment, n.d.
Folder 9: Barnett, "Comment on Part VII Papers", n.d.: Comments on papers by Richard Tybout and Professor Boulding.
Folder 10: Barnett, "Economic Analysis in Coal Research", 1952
Folder 11: Barnett, "Economic Growth and Environmental Quality are Compatible": Includes 2 copies of Environmental Spectrum: Social and Economic Views on the Quality of Life, edited by Ronald Clarke and Peter List, 1974, where Barnett's article is published
Folder 12: Barnett, "The Economics of Broadcasting and Advertising", 1966
Folder 13: Barnett, "Economics of Television Markets", 1964
Folder 14: Barnett, "Energy Resources and Growth," Statement before Joint Economic Committee, 1973
Folder 15: Barnett, "Energy Resources - Trends; Future Requirements", 1952
Folder 16: Barnett, "Energy Uses and Supplies, 1939, 1947, 1965", 1950
Folder 17: Barnett, "Environmental Policy and Management", 1967
Folder 18: Barnett, "Environmental Social Scientists: An Annotated List", 1968
Folder 19: Barnett, "Estimating Product Requirements from Inter-Industry Models", 1957
Folder 20: Barnett, ed., The Guild Ticker, 1938, 1939: Publication of the College of Business Administration, University of Arkansas
Folder 21: Barnett, "Influence of Environmental Factors on Regional Migration", 1967
Folder 22: Barnett, "Long Range Growth of Chemical Industries", 1958
Folder 23: Barnett, "Malthusianism and Conservation", 1959
Folder 24: Barnett, "Measurement of Change in Natural Resource Economic Scarcity & its Economic Effects", 1958-1961
Folder 25: Barnett, "Metal Can Prices", 1975: A Staff Report of the Council on Wage and Price Stability
Folder 26: Barnett, "Minerals, Scarcity & Economic Change; Design & Discussion", 1980
Folder 27: Barnett, "The Myth of Our Vanishing Natural Resources", 1967
Folder 28: Barnett, "Natural Resources and the Quality of Life", n.d.: Reprint from Scarcity and Growth, 1963
Folder 29: Barnett, "Natural Resources in the Changing U.S. Economy", 1968
Folder 30: Barnett - Notes - Folder 1, n.d.
Folder 31: Barnett - Notes - Folder 2, n.d.
Folder 32: Barnett - Notes - Folder 3, n.d.
Folder 33: Barnett - Notes - Folder 4, n.d.
Folder 34: Barnett, "On the Economics of Wired City Television", 1968
Folder 35: Barnett, "Perspectives on CATV Regulation", 1975
Folder 36: Barnett, "Perspective on Energy and Growth", Fourth Regulatory Information Systems Conference, 1974
Folder 37: Barnett, "Population and World Politics", 1960
Folder 38: Barnett, "Population Change and Resources: Malthusianism and Conservation", 1960
Folder 39: Barnett, "Population, Energy, and Development", 1974
Folder 40: Barnett, "Population Problems - Myths and Realities" in Population, Resources, & the Future (& copy), 1971, 1972
Folder 41: Barnett, "Pressures of Growth upon Environment", 1966
Folder 42: Barnett, "A Proposal for Wired City Television", 1968
Folder 43: Barnett, "Regulating CATV Systems: An Analysis of FCC Policy and an Alternative", 1969
Folder 44: Barnett, "Regulation of CATV": Hearings, 1969: Government Printing Office publication and photocopy.
Folder 45: Barnett, "Research and Development, Economic Growth, and National Security", 1960
Folder 46: Barnett, Poblacion, Energia, y Desarrollo, 1975: From "Reunion Anual de la Academia de la Investigacion cientifica", a symposium in Mexico, 1975
Folder 47: Barnett, "Scarcity and Growth Revisited", 1979: In Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered, ed. by V. Kerry Smith, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979
Folder 48: Barnett, "Specific Industry Output Projections", 1951, 1954
Folder 49: Barnett, "Steel's Not-So-Solid Expansion Plans" by Carol J. Loomis, in Fortune, 1976
Folder 50: Barnett, "A Study of Steel Prices", 1975: A Staff Report of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, with a preface by Barnett
Folder 51: Barnett, "TV Program Diversity: New Evidence and Old Theories", 1971
Folder 52: Barnett, "A Theoretical Analysis of Natural Resource Scarcity & Economic Growth", 1960
Folder 53: Publications: Alexander Study, CBS, 1955
Folder 54: Publications: Alexander Study Revision, n.d.
Folder 55: Publications: Book Reviews, 1967-1971
Folder 56: Publications: "B" (folder 1), 1962-1974
Folder 57: Publications: "B" (folder 2), ca.1954-1972
Folder 58: Publications: "B" (folder 3), 1954, 1970
Folder 59: Publications: Clark, 1953
Folder 60: Publications: "C", 1955-1970

Box 2

Folder 1: Publications: "D-F", 1963-1969
Folder 2: Publications: "D", 1970-1972
Folder 3: Publications: "F" (folder 1), 1970-1971
Folder 4: Publications: "F" (folder 2), 1959-1973
Folder 5: Publications: "G-H-I", 1967-1971
Folder 6: Publications: "G", ca.1965-1971
Folder 7: Publications: Hughes, 1970
Folder 8: Publications: "I", ca.1971-1972
Folder 9: Publications: Greenberg, 1960-1969
Folder 10: Publications: "J-K-L" (folder 1), 1956-1971
Folder 11: Publications: "J-K-L" (folder 2), 1957-1968
Folder 12: Publications: "J", 1970-1971
Folder 13: Publications: "K", 1969-1972
Folder 14: Publications: Levin Research Papers, 1972-1973
Folder 15: Publications: "M-N-O", 1962-1968
Folder 16: Publications: "M", 1970-1972
Folder 17: Publications: "N", 1970-1971
Folder 18: Publications: "O", 1970-1973
Folder 19: Publications: "P-Q-R", 1962-1969
Folder 20: Publications: "P", 1963-1970
Folder 21: Resource Scarcity, Economic Growth, and the Environment, 1974: Statement of Barnett in Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States
Folder 22: Publications: "S", 1969-1970
Folder 23: University College Lectures on Conservation and Economic Development in the St. Louis Region and the Midwest, 1966: Includes Barnett's lecture "Resources, Conservation, and Economic Growth"
Folder 24: Publications: "W", 1970-1971
Folder 25: Publications: "W-Z", 1966-1968