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.
Subseries III.1: Macroeconomics
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.
Box 13 Folder 196
Acceptance of Honorary Membership in NTA, speech, 6 Nov. 1993
[Argues for a larger deficit.]
Box 13 Folder 197
All That Anguish Over a Phony Number, letter to editor, 12 Dec. 1995
Box 13 Folder 198
Averting Unemployment and Inflation in Transition to Market Economy, paper, 1992
Box 13 Folder 199
Balanced Budget is Not the Answer, paper, 2 June 1992
Box 13 Folder 200
Balancing the Budget is a Recipe for Economic Disaster, paper, Feb-May 1995
Box 13 Folder 201
Budget Balancing: A Cruel, Pious Fraud, letter to editor, undated
Box 13 Folder 202
The Burden of the Public Debt: Comment, article, 1961
[Published inAmerican Economic Review, 51, March 1961, 132-7. Superseded by later analysis.]
Box 13 Folder 203
Capital Budgeting, Unemployment, and Inflation, paper, June 1992
[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.]
Box 13 Folder 204
Chock-full Employment without Increased Inflation, paper, Jan. 1991
[For presentation at session entitled "Achieving High Employment without Inflation", New Orleans, 4 Jan. 1991.]
Box 13 Folder 205
Chock-full Employment without Inflation, paper, 1992
[Presented at Munich Conference 18 May 1992 and Prague/Bratislava Meetings 28 June-3 July, 1992.]
Box 13 Folder 206
Comments on "Investment, Dividend, and External Finance Behavior of Firms" by Phoebus J. Dhrymes and Mordecai Kurz and on "Business Fixed Investment: A Marriage of Fact and Fancy" by W. H. Locke Anderson, review, 1965
[Shows a knowledge of econometrics.]
Box 13 Folder 207
Controlling Inflation through Marketable Gross Markup Rights, paper, Dec. 1993
Box 13 Folder 208
Controlling Inflation through Marketable Gross Markup Rights for Chock-full Employment in a Neo-Keynesian Economy, paper, 1993-1994
Box 13 Folder 209
Debt Limits Throttle the Economy, essay, 14 Nov. 1995
Box 13 Folder 210
Debts, Deficits, and Delusions, paper, 14 Dec. 1990
Box 14 Folder 211
Disarmament, Unemployment, Budget, and Inflation, paper, June 1992
Box 14 Folder 212
The Dole Tax Plan Could Backfire, essay, 16 Aug. 1996
Box 14 Folder 213
Economic Criteria for Optimum Rates of Depletion, paper, [1967]
[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.]
Box 14 Folder 214
Effective Fiscal Policy, paper, 23 May 1993
Box 14 Folder 215
Fallacies of the Conventional Wisdom, notes for a talk, 26 Oct. 1992
[Notes for a talk at Marymount.]
Box 14 Folder 216
Fatal Fallacies about Economies with Unemployment, paper, 6 Sept. 1993
[See also Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Establishment Economics, Box 14, Folder 217 and Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Fundamentalism, Box 14, Folder 218.]
Box 14 Folder 217
Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Establishment Economics, paper, 1995
[See also Fatal Fallacies about Economies with Unemployment, Box 14, Folder 216 and Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Fundamentalism, Box 14, Folder 218.]
Box 14 Folder 218
Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Fundamentalism, paper, 7 Sept. 1995
[See also Fatal Fallacies about Economies with Unemployment, Box 14, Folder 216 and Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Establishment Economics, Box 14, Folder 217.]
Box 14 Folder 219
Fiscal Policy in Prosperity and Depression: Discussion of Papers Delivered by Musgrave and Hardy, review, Dec. 1947
Box 14 Folder 220
Fiscal Strategies for Shifting Resources from Military to Civilian Activities, paper, [1964?]
Box 14 Folder 221
A Growing Debt is a Necessity, not a Threat, letter to the editor, 31 May 1995
[Response to letter by Congressman Mark W. Neumann, 24 May 1995.]
Box 14 Folder 222
How Big a "Deficit" Do We Need?, essay, 28 June 1993
Box 14 Folder 223
How Successful as Innovators Have Economists Been?, paper, 9 Aug. 1987
[See also My Innovative Failures in Economics, Box 32, Folder 576.]
Box 14 Folder 224
How to Get Real Full Employment (Jobs for All), paper, 8 Aug. 1996
Box 14 Folder 225
Interest and Policy: Long or Short?, essay, undated
[Discusses which interest rate to use in analysis of long-term projects.]
Box 14 Folder 226
Letter on Budget Balancing, letter to the editor
Box 14 Folder 227
Letter to Senator, 1 June 1993
[Discusses government deficit.]
Box 14 Folder 228
Letter to The New York Times, letter to the editor, 30 Oct. 1992
[Discusses government deficit and full-employment economy.]
Box 14 Folder 229
Letter to The New York Times, letter to the editor, 22 April 1993
[Argues against the Federal Reserve Board worries of overheating economy.]
Box 14 Folder 230
Long Term Forecasting in Terms of Government Debt, paper, June 1994
[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.]
Box 14 Folder 231
Lowering Inflation through Gross Price Markup Rights, essay
Box 14 Folder 232
Macroeconomic Aspects of Tax Incidence, abstract of paper, Nov. 1994
[Abstract of paper for NTA Meetings, 13-16 Nov. 1994]
Box 14 Folder 233
Macro-economic Impacts of Social Security, paper, April-May 1996
Box 14 Folder 234
A Macroeconomic Program for the Clinton Era, paper, [1992?]
[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.]
Box 14 Folder 235
Markup Market, letter to the editor, 6 Feb. 1993
Box 14 Folder 236
Meaningfully Defining Deficits and Debt, paper, 1991-1992
[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.]
Box 15 Folder 237
Metastatics and Macroeconomics, bibliography, ca. 1964
Box 15 Folder 238
Metastatics and Macroeconomics, illustrations, ca. 1964
Box 15 Folder 239
Metastatics and Macroeconomics, incomplete draft, ca. 1964
Box 15 Folder 240
Necessary and Optimum Government Debt, paper, March-April 1993
[Discusses optimum government normal economy without capital but with money.]
Box 15 Folder 241
Notes on Macroeconomic Instruments, notes, 6 Dec. 1989
Box 15 Folder 242
Notes on the Macroeconomics of Disarmament, notes
Box 15 Folder 243
One Economists' View of Philanthropy, paper, 1961
[Paper for Conference on Philanthropy, Sponsored by National Bureau of Economic Research and Merrill Center for Economics, 26-30 June 1961.]
Box 15 Folder 244
The Other Side of the Coin, address, Sept. 1992
[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.]
Box 15 Folder 245
Review of Disarmament and the Economy, edited by Emile Benoit and Kenneth E. Boulding, book review, 1963
Box 15 Folder 246
Social Pathologies, Unemployment, and the Fatal Obsession with Debt Reduction and Other Fallacies, paper, 14 July 1994
Box 15 Folder 247
Some Disastrous Economic Fallacies, notes, 1992
Box 15 Folder 248
Statement to the Armed Services Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, speech, 17 May 1963
Box 15 Folder 249
Three Degrees of Separation between Budgets and Reality, paper, 9 March 1996
Box 15 Folder 250
Today's Task for Economists, address, 1992-1993
[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.]
Box 15 Folder 251
A Trans-Keynesian Manifesto (Thoughts about an Asset-Based Macro-economics), paper, June-July 1996
[A clear statement of views.]
Box 15 Folder 252
Two-Stage Fiscal Program: Stimulus First, Deficit Reduction Second, paper, 1 Nov. 1992
[Apparently a preliminary draft of a proposal for the anticipated Clinton Administration.]
Box 15 Folder 253
We Need a Bigger Deficit, paper, Aug-Sept. 1993
Box 15 Folder 254
We Need Bigger Deficits!, letter to editor
Box 16 Folder 255
What Deficit, Anyhow?, essay
Box 16 Folder 256
Why Balance the Budget?, article, 1959-1960
Box 16 Folder 257
Why Balance What?, paper, Aug.-Oct. 1995
Box 16 Folder 258
Why Not Chock-full Employment?, paper, 2 Feb. 1994
[Revision of talk to the Atlantic Economic Society, Philadelphia, 1993.]
Subseries III.2: Marginal Cost Pricing
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.
Box 16 Folder 259
Adam and Eve and the Coal Mine: Comments on Harold J. Barnett: "Measurement of Natural Resource Scarcity", review, [1962?]
[Discusses the pricing of natural resources and the deviations from Hotelling's rule due to changes in expectations, increasing extraction cost, and technological change.]
Box 16 Folder 260
The Airline Booking Problem: Some Further Solutions, paper, Dec. 1970
[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.]
Box 16 Folder 261
Appendix II: Depreciation as an Element of Marginal Cost, paper, 4 Dec. 1990
Box 16 Folder 262
Apportionment of Cost over Time and Pricing Methods, paper, June 1964
[Discusses congestion on electrical networks (power factor) and equipment husbandry.]
Box 16 Folder 263
AT&T Rate Structure Hearings, draft of testimony, 1968
Box 16 Folder 264
The Backward Art of Utility Pricing, paper, Aug. 1988
[Discussion Paper Series No. 404, Columbia University, August 1988. Discusses responsive pricing, power factor charges, lifeline rates, and subsidy from land taxation.]
Box 16 Folder 265
Decreasing Costs, Publicly Administered Prices, and Economic Efficiency, paper, 1969
[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."]
Box 16 Folder 266
Economic Efficiency and Pricing, paper, 1970-1971
[Published inPublic Prices for Public Products. Edited by Selma J. Mushkin. Washington: Urban Institute, 1972.]
Box 16 Folder 267
Economies of Scale Stemming from Indivisibilities, paper, 28 June 1969
Box 16 Folder 268
Economizing and Pricing of Computer Services, paper, 1968
[Concerns batch processing.]
Box 16 Folder 269
Efficient Pricing and its Impact on Operating Costs, Fuel Requirements, Capacity Expansion, Retirement of Obsolete Plants, and Integration of Exotic Power Schedules, essay, 28 March 1980
[Offers responsive pricing as an option to standard pricing.]
Box 17 Folder 270
Efficient Pricing of Electric Power Service: Some Innovative Solutions, paper, 1990-1992
[Published inResources and Energy, 14, 1992, 157-74. Discusses responsive pricing, power factor, formulation of subsidies, pricing of hydro power, and second-best considerations. ]
Box 17 Folder 271
Efficient Pricing under Regulation: The Case of Responsive Pricing as a Substitute for Interruptible Power Contracts, paper, June 1978
[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.]
Box 17 Folder 272
Efficient Pricing vs. Privatization of Utility Services, paper, Nov. 1991
[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.]
Box 17 Folder 273
Hotel Problem, notes
[Discusses responsive pricing.]
Box 17 Folder 274
Interrelations between Interest Rates and Depreciation Rates, paper, 1970-1971
[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.]
Box 17 Folder 275
Investment Bias under Regulatory Constraint, paper, Sept. 1965
[Paper prepared for presentation at the Symposium on Economics of Public Utilities, Airlie House, Warrenton, Va., 7-10 Sept. 1965]
Box 17 Folder 276
IPA Water Outlines, notes, 1969, undated
Box 17 Folder 277
Local Telephone Costs and the Design of Rate Structures: An Innovative View, paper, March 1981
[Discusses responsive pricing and land taxes.]
Box 17 Folder 278
Marginal Cost Pricing: Using the Short Run for the Long Run, article, 1983
[An abbreviated version of this article was presented at the meetings of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, 11 March 1983.]
Box 17 Folder 279
Maximum Output or Maximum Welfare? More on the Off-Peak Pricing Problem, article, Dec. 1970
[Published inKyklow, 24(2), 1971, 305-29. Includes critique of a naive proposal for determining peak price differentials.]
Box 17 Folder 280
The Meaning of Marginal Cost: Some New (Empty?) Boxes for Old, paper
[Discusses short- and long-run relevant product mines, queuing, travel time, schedule delay, relevance to direct controls, bottleneck model, and marginal cost pricing.]
Box 17 Folder 281
Measurement of Demand for Demand Changes, fragment
Box 17 Folder 282
New Approaches to Marginal Cost Pricing of Electricity, notes, [1990]
[Notes for a talk at Lehigh University, 17 February [1990].]
Box 17 Folder 283
Notes and Amendments regarding the Proposed City Club statement: "A New York City Energy Policy for the Eighties", review, 1980
[Argues for time-of-day-pricing in New York City.]
Box 17 Folder 284
Notes on AT&T Testimony, notes, 1965 & 1968
Box 17 Folder 285
Notes on Brancato: Criteria for Redesigning Rates, review, April 1974
Box 17 Folder 286
Notes on Interruptible Power and Alternative Pricing Methods, notes, 6 April 1977
[See also Efficient Pricing Under Regulation: The Case of Responsive Pricing as a Substitute for Interruptible Power Contracts, Box 17, Folder 271.]
Box 17 Folder 287
Notes on Statements to the FCC, notes, July-Oct. 1968
Box 17 Folder 288
Notes on the Con Ed Crisis, fragment
Box 17 Folder 289
Notes on Welfare Economics as a Theory of Teams, notes
Box 18 Folder 290
Notes re: Marginal Cost Pricing, notes
Box 18 Folder 291
Optimal Electricity Prices, draft of chapter 3
Box 18 Folder 292
Optimum Allocation of Intra-Marginal Residues, paper
[Discusses Ramsey pricing for public utilities.]
Box 18 Folder 293
Postal Rate and Fee Increases Notebook, 1973-1974
[Notebook is related to Vickrey's role as witness in Docket No. RT4-1 regarding postal rate and fee increases.]
Box 18 Folder 294
Postal Rate and Fee Increases Notebook: Memos, 1974
Box 18 Folder 295
Postal Rate and Fee Increases Notebook: Direct Testimony and Exhibits, 1973
Box 18 Folder 296
Postal Rate and Fee Increases Notebook: Interrogations and Answers by Party, 1973-1974
Box 18 Folder 297
Postal Rate and Fee Increases Notebook: Written Cross Examinations, 1974
Box 18 Folder 298
Postal Rate and Fee Increases Notebook: Motions, 1973-1974
Box 18 Folder 299
Postal Rate and Fee Increases Notebook: Rebuttal Testimony, 1974
Box 18 Folder 300
Postal Rate Structure, notes
Box 18 Folder 301
Pricing for Tomorrow: The Welfare Economics of Price Structures Adapted to an Electronic Age, drafts
[Incomplete manuscript of a book in years of gestation.]
Box 19 Folder 302
Pricing for Tomorrow: The Welfare Economics of Price Structures Adapted to an Electronic Age, fragments
Box 19 Folder 303
The Pricing of Tomorrow's Utility Services, paper, 1968
[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.]
Box 19 Folder 304
Rebuttal by Vickrey, transcript, 1974
[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.]
Box 19 Folder 305
Remarks at Institute of Public Utilities Conference, speech, May 1975
Box 19 Folder 306
Responsive Pricing and Homeostatic Control, paper, May 1979
[Discusses responsive pricing for electricity.]
Box 19 Folder 307
Responsive Pricing Based on Marginal Cost as a Means of Promoting Efficient Energy Usage, paper, June 1979
[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.]
Box 19 Folder 308
Responsive Pricing of Public Utility Services, paper, 1970
[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.]
Box 19 Folder 309
Statement at the Public Hearing held by the Department of Environmental Conservation regarding Mobile Pollutants, statement, 24 Jan. 1979
[The hearing was held in County Center, White Plains, New York, 24 Jan. 1979. Discusses tolling as a way to reduce pollution.]
Box 19 Folder 310
Statement before Water Resources Subcommittee of U.S. Senate Committee on Public Works, statement, 1 April 1977
[The statement concerns user charges on inland waterways and competition with railroads.]
Box 19 Folder 311
Statement to New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions, statement, 24 Sept. 1975
[Discusses lifeline pricing of telephone service to the poor.]
Box 19 Folder 312
Tarifacion de Pasajes, Por Avion, Tema No. 9, lecture notes, 15 July 1976
[Discusses responsive pricing.]
Box 19 Folder 313
Tarifacion en Los Muelles, Tema No. 10, lecture notes, 15 July 1976
Box 19 Folder 314
La Tarification des Communications Urbains: Principes Economiques, Possibilites Techiques, Resultats Pratiques, paper, Nov. 1973
Box 19 Folder 315
Teoria del Segundo Mejor (second best), Tema No. 11, lecture notes, 16 July 1976
Box 19 Folder 316
Testimony before the Environmental Defense Fund, transcript
[Discusses marginal cost pricing of public utilities.]
Box 19 Folder 317
Testimony before the Federal Communications Commission, in relation to Charges for Program Transmission Services Rendered by the Bell System to the Radio and Television Networks, draft, 1967
[Discusses telephone pricing.]
Box 19 Folder 318
Testimony before the New York Public Service Commission in behalf of the Environmental Defense Fund in the matter of Niagara-Mohawk Power Corporation Electric Rates, Case 26402, transcript, 27 July 1973
[The testimony argues for peak-load pricing and time-of-day metering, describes possible technologies, and provides definitions of marginal cost and Ramsey pricing.]
Box 20 Folder 319
Theoretical and Practical Possibilities and Limitations of a Market Mechanism Approach to Air Pollution Control, article, 1992
[Listed as forthcoming,Land Economics, Feb. 1992.]
Subseries III.3: Microeconomics
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.
Box 20 Folder 320
Notes on The Taxation of Income from Capital, review, Feb. 1983
Box 20 Folder 321
Microstatics, bibliography, ca. 1964
[A graduate level textbook. Reprinted once and contains some errors.]
Box 20 Folder 322
Microstatics, errata, ca. 1964
Box 20 Folder 323
Microstatics, illustrations, ca. 1964
Box 20 Folder 324
Microstatics, mathematical appendices, ca. 1964
Box 20 Folder 325
Microstatics, notes, ca. 1964
Box 20 Folder 326
Microstatics, outline, ca. 1964
Subseries III.4: Political Economy and Welfare
Papers, book reviews, and an outline of remarks on the subjects of social science, world development, poverty, and corporate giving. Arranged alphabetically by title.
Box 20 Folder 327
America's Capability for Tooling Up World Development, paper, undated
Box 20 Folder 328
Auschwitz--and Hiroshima, paper, 3 Oct. 1958
Box 20 Folder 329
Book Review of Economic Factors in the Growth of Corporation Giving by Ralph L. Nelson, book review, 1971
[Published inJournal of Economic Literature.]
Box 20 Folder 330
Comments on Essays in the Structure of Social Science Models by Albert Ando, Franklin M. Fisher, and Herbert A. Simon, book review, 1964
Box 20 Folder 331
Maldistribution of Wealth: Provision for Each Individual within the National Economy, outline, 28 Oct. 1969
[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.]
Subseries III.5: Public Finance
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.
Box 20 Folder 332
Cut the Corporate Income Tax, not Capital Gains, paper, undated
Box 20 Folder 333
Notes on the Land Tax, notes
[Discusses the lack of neutrality of market value less depreciated improvementsapproach.]
Box 20 Folder 334
Review of The Economics of Taxation by Henry Aaron and Michael J. Boskins, eds., book review, 1981
Box 20 Folder 335
Tax and Other Policies to Encourage Investment, notes, Aug. 1993
[Notes for a discussion oat Great Barrington, 19-21 Aug. 1993. Discusses cumulative averaging and categorization of types of investment.]
Subseries III.6: Social Choice
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.
Box 20 Folder 336
Agenda Setting and Social Choice, paper, June 1980
[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.]
Box 20 Folder 337
An Anonymity-Preserving Procedure for Sealed Bid Auctions, paper, 1967
Box 20 Folder 338
The Arrow Social Choice Theorem, paper
Box 21 Folder 339
Auctions and Bidding Games, paper, 1962
[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.]
Box 21 Folder 340
Auctions, Markets, and Optimal Allocation, paper, 1974-1976
[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.]
Box 21 Folder 341
Bidding Procedures and Economic Efficiency, paper, April 1980
Box 21 Folder 342
A Comment on Tideman and Tullock's "A New and Superior Process for Making Social Choice", review, Jan. 1976
Box 21 Folder 343
Demand Revealing Procedures, Collusion, and Lump-sum Payments, paper, 1976
[Discusses the ways of dealing with problems that arise in various contexts and includes a bibliography.]
Box 21 Folder 344
Demand Revealing Procedures for Public Choice: Beyond Majority Rule, paper, June 1994
Box 21 Folder 345
Demand Revealing Procedures in International Disputes, paper, Nov. 1979
Box 21 Folder 346
Demand Revealing Procedures in International Disputes, paper, 14 May 1992
Box 21 Folder 347
A Further Simplification of Consumer's Surplus, paper
[Argues that compensating variation likely to be used in practice rather than equivalent valuation.]
Box 21 Folder 348
The Intensity Problem: A Perennially Elusive Target, paper
Box 21 Folder 349
Justice, Bloomberg, etc., notes
[Possibly notes for lecture.]
Box 21 Folder 350
Justice, Economics, and Jurisprudence, article, 1976-1977
[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.]
Box 21 Folder 351
Lifeline Rates: Succor or Snare?, paper
[Discusses the role of equity in public utility pricing.]
Box 21 Folder 352
Myopia, Consistency, and Exponential Discounting, paper, 1957-1966
[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.]
Box 21 Folder 353
Preference, Probability, and Proficiency, paper
Box 21 Folder 354
Review of Collective Choice and Social Welfare by Amartya K. Sen, book review
Box 21 Folder 355
Risk, Utility, and Social Policy, paper, 1961
[Defends expected utility as measure of satisfaction.]
Box 21 Folder 356
The Weltanschauung of an Economist, paper
[Discusses Rawls, Nozick, and equity in economics.]
Subseries III.7: Taxation
Papers, notes, articles, and reviews concerning the effects of taxation on the economy. These papers include examination of the simplification of the tax system, tax revenues, capital gains, progressive taxation, land value taxation, tax evasion, assessments, philanthropy, tax credits, income, and related issues. Also discusses federal income tax, international tax, corporate income tax, state taxes, excise tax, expenditures tax, estate taxes, and gift taxes. Arranged alphabetically by title.
Box 21 Folder 357
Alternatives to the International Tax Credit, paper, Aug. 1978
Box 21 Folder 358
Alternatives to the International Tax Credit--Some Afterthoughts, paper, 26 Oct. 1978
Box 21 Folder 359
Comments on Jennifer Arlen and Deborah Weiss's A Political Theory of Corporate Taxation, book review
Box 21 Folder 360
Concession Agreements: Liberia, paper, 1968-1969
[Discusses the economics of concessions.]
Box 22 Folder 361
The Consequences of the Corporation Income Tax: A Macroeconomic Approach, paper
Box 22 Folder 362
The Corporate Income Tax and How to Get Rid of It, paper, May 1989
[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.]
Box 22 Folder 363
The Corporate Income Tax in the U.S. Tax System, paper, 27 March 1992
[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.]
Box 22 Folder 364
Cumulative Assessment: Some Responses to Richard Goode's Critique, paper
Box 22 Folder 365
Cumulative Averaging after Thirty Years, paper, 1972
[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.]
Box 22 Folder 366
Design of Taxes to Minimize Evasion, paper, Oct. 1977
[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.]
Box 22 Folder 367
The Effect of the Tax System on the Impact of Government Debt, paper, 18 Sept. 1990
Box 22 Folder 368
Estimating Income Tax Revenue under Alternative Rate Structures, paper, 1969
Box 22 Folder 369
Excise Tax, paper
[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.]
Box 22 Folder 370
Expenditure, Capital Gains, and the Basis of Progressive Taxation, article, 1968-1969
[German translation reprinted in Finanztheory, Horst Claus Recktenwald, Herausgeber, Köln, Kiepenhauer and Witech, 1969, pp. 425-33. Discusses the capital gains issue.]
Box 22 Folder 371
Improvements Tax in a Monocentric City, notes
Box 22 Folder 372
Income Tax Impasse, article, ca. 1957
[Op. Ed. piece for Challenge magazine. ]
Box 22 Folder 373
Justice, Equality, and the Economic System, paper, 1977
[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.]
Box 22 Folder 374
A Modern Theory of Land Value Taxation, paper, 1992
[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.]
Box 22 Folder 375
Note on Taxation in New Hampshire, review, 27 July 1992
Box 22 Folder 376
Notes and Issues Concerning an Expenditures Tax, paper, Oct. 1978
[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.]
Box 22 Folder 377
Notes on Proposed California Severance Tax, notes, [1968?]
Box 23 Folder 378
Private Philanthropy and Public Finance, paper, June 1973
Box 23 Folder 379
Problems in Land Value Taxation: Equity, Expectation, and Efficiency, paper, 1973
[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.]
Box 23 Folder 380
Progression, Simplification, and a Level Playing Field, paper, 20 Jan. 1995
Box 23 Folder 381
Reforma de Impuestos sobre Donaciones y Herencias, Tema No. 16, lecture notes, 21 July 1976
[Discusses gift and inheritance taxation.]
Box 23 Folder 382
Reforma del Impuesto Sobre Rentas (ingresos netos), Tema No. 15, lecture notes, 20 July 1976
Box 23 Folder 383
Security Equity for Working Wives via Earned Income Credit, paper, Feb. 1968
Box 23 Folder 384
Simplification, Progression, and a Level Playing Field, paper, 1995-1996
Box 23 Folder 385
Simplification through Cumulative Averaging, paper, ca. 1969
Box 23 Folder 386
Some Preliminary Thoughts on Basic Principles of the Taxation of Multinational Activity, paper, [1974?]
Box 23 Folder 387
Special Report on New Tax Frontiers for the National Governors' Conference, paper, 25 June 1968
Box 23 Folder 388
Statement for Chairman's Summary Report: NGC Revenue and Taxation Committee, 6. New Tax Frontiers, paper
Box 23 Folder 389
Statement regarding Party Planks on Federal Tax Reform, paper, 1972
[Prepared for Taxation with Representation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public interest tax lobby that deals solely with federal tax issues.]
Box 23 Folder 390
Tax Simplification through Cumulative Averaging, paper, 1969
[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.]
Box 23 Folder 391
Teoria del Progresion, Tema No. 17, lecture notes, 22 July 1976
Box 23 Folder 392
An Updated Agenda for Progressive Taxation, paper, 1992
[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.]
Subseries III.8: Transportation
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.
Box 23 Folder 393
After the Defeat of the Bond Issue, What?, paper, 17 Oct. 1973
Box 23 Folder 394
Airline Guide, notes
[Includes algorithm for itineraries, examples, and other notes.]
Box 23 Folder 395
Alleviating Rush-Hour Crowding: Comment, review, March 1974
[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."]
Box 23 Folder 396
Alternative Method of Implementing Subscriber Fares, paper
Box 23 Folder 397
Analysis of Minimum Headways in Rapid Transit Service, paper, Aug. 1971
[Makes reference to a computer program for train control.]
Box 23 Folder 398
Appendix II: Suggested Algorithm for Processing a Basic or Local Airport Set, fragment
Box 23 Folder 399
Automatic Control of Subway Service Perturbations, paper, May 1973
Box 23 Folder 400
Better Subway Safety, letter to the editor, 23 Sept. 1995
Box 23 Folder 401
Bibliography on the Costs and Pricing of Streets and Highways, list, 1965
Box 23 Folder 402
Caracas Road Pricing Study, paper, 1970-1973
Box 24 Folder 403
A Change-Free, Time-Origin-Destination Fare Collection System, paper, 1 May 1966
Box 24 Folder 404
Charging Users of Transportation Infrastructure, paper, Dec. 1991
[Draft of a proposed Congressional Budget Office paper with some marginal comments.]
Box 24 Folder 405
A Check-list of Points to be Considered in Planning Improvements and Economies in Subway Service, paper, June 1953
Box 24 Folder 406
Comments on the "Tolls Pricing Study of Port Authority of NY and NJ", FWHA Docket 76-9, paper, Jan. 1979
[Discusses the implementation of peak-load pricing in New York City anticipating a bottleneck model with heterogeneous users.]
Box 24 Folder 407
Computers, Pricing Mechanisms, and Optimum Traffic and Transit Patterns, paper
Box 24 Folder 408
Congestion in Midtown Manhattan in Relation to Marginal Cost Pricing, paper, May 1991
[Argument on the basis of which Vickrey claimed that the marginal cost pricing of a trip in Manhattan on a weekday is $1,000.]
Box 24 Folder 409
Congestion Theory and Transport Investment, paper, 1968-1970
[For presentation at a meeting of the American Economic Association, 28 Dec. 1968. Discusses optimal investment, with and without congestion pricing.]
Box 24 Folder 410
Continuous Automatic Bus Spacing and Dispatching (CASBAD): A Proposal for Improving the Efficiency of Short-Headway Bus Service, paper, 1966
[The proposal suggests using automatic digitalized radio signals.]
Box 24 Folder 411
Controlling the Environmental Impact of the Automobile, outline, 17 Oct. 1972
[Outline of presentation at VPI Conference on the Environment, 17 Oct. 1972.]
Box 24 Folder 412
Converting to Efficient Transit Fares, paper, 17 Aug. 1995
[Concerned with the mechanical aspects of phasing-in an efficient fare structure.]
Box 24 Folder 413
Cost Reduction and Efficiency Promotion through Pricing in Urban Transportation, abstract
Box 24 Folder 414
Current Economic Position and Prospects of Argentina: Planning and Public Investment in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, paper, 1970
[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.]
Box 24 Folder 415
Current Issues in Urban Transportation, paper (1 of 4), 1968-1973
[Published inContemporary Economic Issues. Edited by Neil Chamberlain. Irwin, 1969. A wide-ranging discussion of urban transportation issues.]
Box 25 Folder 416
Current Issues in Urban Transportation, paper (2 of 4), 1968-1973
Box 25 Folder 417
Current Issues in Urban Transportation, paper (3 of 4), 1968-1973
Box 25 Folder 418
Current Issues in Urban Transportation, paper (4 of 4), 1968-1973
Box 25 Folder 419
Dealing with Divergence or Slow Convergence in a Traffic Assignment Problem, paper, April 1972
Box 25 Folder 420
Denver Transcript, speech
[Notes hypercongestion as a queuing reservoir.]
Box 25 Folder 421
Detailed Pricing of Urban Transportation Services: The Essential Key to Efficient Urban Transportation, paper, Aug. 1973
[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.]
Box 25 Folder 422
The Economic Efficiency of the Present Road User Charges System, and Some Observations on the Value of Time in the Evaluation of Road User Charges, paper, 18 Feb. 1972
[Technical Note No. 10, Task No. 23.]
Box 25 Folder 423
The Economics of Intra-Urban Transportation, paper
Box 25 Folder 424
Efficiency through Pricing in Urban Transportation, paper
Box 25 Folder 425
Efficient Allocation of In-House Parking Space, paper, 12 Aug. 1992
[Discusses the application of auctions to allocation of parking space within, say, a university.]
Box 25 Folder 426
Efficient Pricing of City Facilities and Services, paper, 2 Dec. 1992
[Notes for testimony for NYC Controller's Office, 2 Dec. 1992. Discusses congestion pricing, subway fares and service, utility rates, and site value taxation.]
Box 25 Folder 427
Energy Saving in Direct Current Traction, paper, 1975-1982
[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.]
Box 26 Folder 428
Equipment Husbandry, notes
Box 26 Folder 429
Externalities in Public Facility Use: The Case of Highway Accidents, paper, April 1968
[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.]
Box 26 Folder 430
A Flexible, Change-free Fare Collection System for Buses and Subways, paper, 10 May 1966
Box 26 Folder 431
Further Notes on Fare Collection for the Rationalized Commuter Service, paper, 17 June 1962
Box 26 Folder 432
Immediate Congestion Relief for E and F Riders, essay, Feb. 1992
Box 26 Folder 433
Immediate Steps Towards an Efficient Transit Fare Structure, paper
[Discusses New York City.]
Box 26 Folder 434
Improvement of Broadway IRT Service, essay, March 1966
Box 26 Folder 435
Improvement of Quick Reference Airline Timetables, notes, April 1982
[Superseded presumably by computers.]
Box 26 Folder 436
Increasing Capacity at Transit Bottlenecks, paper, 7 Sept. 1995
[Discusses more efficient use of existing subway capacity.]
Box 26 Folder 437
Information Requirements for Meaningful Evaluation of Alternative Solutions to Metropolitan Transportation Problems, paper
Box 26 Folder 438
An Interim Plan for Street Parking Licenses, paper, 7 Dec. 1971
Box 26 Folder 439
JFK to Penn Station, essay, 18 June 1996
Box 26 Folder 440
Letter to Dr. William Ronan, Port Authority of NY and NJ, letter, 23 May 1977
[Advocates time-varying tolls and peak-load pricing in New York City.]
Box 26 Folder 441
Letter to the New York Times, letter to the editor
Box 26 Folder 442
Letter to the New York Times, letter to the editor, 12 April 1978
[Discusses parking meters and cards.]
Box 26 Folder 443
Lexington-Pelham Skip-Stop Scheduling, paper, 1972
Box 26 Folder 444
Low Loss DC Traction for Rapid Transit Service, notes, 1971
[Includes circuit diagrams.]
Box 26 Folder 445
Low Loss DC Traction for Rapid Transit Service, paper, Nov. 1971
[See also Energy Saving in Direct Current Traction, Box 25, Folder 427.]
Box 26 Folder 446
Making the Most of Urban Roadways, speech, 26 March 1966
[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.]
Box 26 Folder 447
More Revenue and Better Usage from Curb Parking, paper
[Discusses parking vouchers.]
Box 26 Folder 448
New Systems versus Better Use of Old Systems: Criteria and Cases, paper, 1974
[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.]
Box 26 Folder 449
New York Needs an Efficient Fare Structure, letter to editor, 25 Aug. 1995
Box 27 Folder 450
Notes Concerning the Caracas Metro, paper, Aug. 1971
Box 27 Folder 451
Notes for Public Transit Finance Workshop, notes, 14 Sept. 1976
Box 27 Folder 452
Notes on an Interim Fare Structure for Suburban Service, notes, 1 May 1962
Box 27 Folder 453
Notes on Cambridge Road Pricing Proposals, notes, Nov. 1991
Box 27 Folder 454
Notes on "Charging Users of Transportation Infrastructure", review, 27 Dec. 1991
[Possibly notes for discussion of a paper at an AEA meeting.]
Box 27 Folder 455
Notes on Cromwell: Financing NY Subways, review
Box 27 Folder 456
Notes on Jim O'Shea memo "Time to Review Transit Options", notes
[Discusses New York City transit.]
Box 27 Folder 457
Notes on Land, Traffic, and Markets, notes, 15 Oct. 1991
[For presentation at Henry George Breakfast, University Club, 15 Oct. 1991.]
Box 27 Folder 458
Notes on Subway Finance, notes, 22 Dec. 1971
[Various recommendations for sources and uses of funds in New York City.]
Box 27 Folder 459
Notes on The Abstract Mode Model by Quant and Baumol, book review, Sept. 1966
Box 27 Folder 460
Notes on the Analysis of Transportation Demand, notes, Aug. 1973
Box 27 Folder 461
Notes on "The Economic Analysis of Rural Road Projects, World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 241" by C. Carnemark, Jamie Biderman, and David Bovet, review, 1976
Box 27 Folder 462
Notes on the Further Development of the Netherlands Transit Subsidy Project, fragments, 8 Aug. 1980
[Discusses optimal transit subsides. ]
Box 27 Folder 463
Notes on the Law and Economics of Highway Use, notes, March 1977
Box 27 Folder 464
Notes on the New Subway Map, notes, Feb. 1978
[Discusses New York City subway map.]
Box 27 Folder 465
Notes on Transit Fare Structure and Finance, notes, 10 July 1993
Box 27 Folder 466
Notes on Urban Transportation Issues, notes, Jan. 1971
[Thorough set of notes with a discussion of hypercongestion and comments on shadow value of urban land and transit service.]
Box 27 Folder 467
Observations on Modern Transit, paper, 23 Dec. 1985
[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.]
Box 27 Folder 468
On Assigning a Value to Changes in Service Frequency, paper, Aug. 1962
Box 27 Folder 469
Optimization of Traffic and Facilities, paper, 1966
[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.]
Box 27 Folder 470
Outline of Registration Apparatus for Reusable Subscriber Card Systems, outline
Box 27 Folder 471
Overall Outline of Processing Procedure for Full Itinerary Development, outline
[Includes design of an algorithm.]
Box 27 Folder 472
Politics versus Efficiency in Transit Fares, letter to editor, 25 June 1966
Box 27 Folder 473
Possible Topics for Study in Urban Transportation, notes, 4 Dec. 1968
[Includes a list of research topics.]
Box 27 Folder 474
A Preliminary Sketch of Possible Schemes for Automatic Toll Assessment with Reference to the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area, paper
Box 28 Folder 475
Prices and Rates in Korean Transportation, preliminary draft, Aug. 1972
[For Princeton Contract AID/csd-159.]
Box 28 Folder 476
Prices and Rates in Korean Transportation, report, 1972
[For Princeton Contract AID/csd-159.]
Box 28 Folder 477
Prices and Rates in Korean Transportation, research materials, 1969-1972
Box 28 Folder 478
Pricing as a Tool in Coordination of Land Transportation, paper, April 1963
[For Conference on Transport Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research, 26-27 April 1963.]
Box 28 Folder 479
Pricing in the Planning of Transportation Facilities, paper, 15 Jan. 1979
[For presentation at the meetings of the Transportation Research Board, Shoreham Americana, 15 Jan. 1979.]
Box 28 Folder 480
Pricing in Urban and Suburban Transport, paper, 1962-1963
[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
Pricing of Urban Transportation: Economic Desiderata, Technology Possibility, and Political Constraints, outline, 1973
[Outline of paper for ICT Conference, Denver, 1973.]
Box 28 Folder 482
Pricing Transport Services, essay, 5 Aug. 1980
Box 28 Folder 483
Principles and Applications of Congestion Pricing, paper, 1993
[Overview and new material using intersection queuing theory to compute tolls at intersections and optimal signaling.]
Box 28 Folder 484
Principles of Efficient Congestion Pricing, paper, 1991
Box 28 Folder 485
Priorities for the City, 1973, paper, 1973
[Discusses engineering aspects of subways, skip stop scheduling, and other methods of improving subway service.]
Box 29 Folder 486
Privatization and Marketization of Transport, paper, 1993
Box 29 Folder 487
Promoting Efficient Use of On-Street Parking, paper, 11 Aug. 1995
Box 29 Folder 488
A Proposal for Increased Service on the IND Queens and Central Park West Express Lines, essay, March 1966
Box 29 Folder 489
Queries Regarding Taxi Services, notes
Box 29 Folder 490
Queuing Models, notes
Box 29 Folder 491
The Relief of Congestion on the 8th Ave. Line, essay, 5 March 1966
Box 29 Folder 492
Report on Mission to Teheran, Iran: Notes on Transport Planning, Electricity and Telephone Rates for Teheran, report, April 1975
[Prepared for United Nations. ]
Box 29 Folder 493
Resistance to Rational Decision-Making in Transportation: Pricing and Marketing Practices and Consequences, outline, 7 May 1969
[Outline of discussion to be presented at the National Seminar on Urban Transportation for Tomorrow, Denver, 7 May 1969.]
Box 29 Folder 494
Returns to Scale in Transit: A Comment, review, March 1977
[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
Review of Transportation Economics by Herbert Mohring, review, Jan. 1977
[Transportation Economicsby Herbert Mohring, Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1976.]
Box 29 Folder 496
Revising New York's Subway Fare Structure, paper, 1955
[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.]
Box 29 Folder 497
Revising the Taxi Fare Structure, paper, ca. 1974
[Discusses New York City.]
Box 29 Folder 498
Road Pricing: Key to Efficient Urban Transport, paper
[Discusses congestion pricing. ]
Box 29 Folder 499
Schedules for Buenos Aires Suburban Service, notes
[Includes actual proposed schedule. ]
Box 29 Folder 500
Seats for All on the Subway, paper
Box 29 Folder 501
Sketch of Proposal for a Study of Street Use Pricing, outline, 5 Nov. 1970
Box 29 Folder 502
Social Costs of Transportation: Their Meaning and Use in the Allocation of Resources, paper, 22 Jan. 1980
Box 29 Folder 503
Some Suggestions for Open Platform Fare Collection, paper, March 1962
[Discusses suburban service. ]
Box 29 Folder 504
Some Suggestions for Suburban Fare Collection, essay, March 1962
Box 29 Folder 505
Some Suggestions for the Pricing of the Caracas Metro, fragment, Jan. 1982
Box 29 Folder 506
Specifications and Procedures for the Construction of a Consolidated Quick-Reference Airlines Timetable, paper, ca. 1968
[Includes algorithm for itineraries, notes, and examples.]
Box 30 Folder 507
Statement to Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems, paper, 1959
[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.]
Box 30 Folder 508
Statement to New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Transportation, transcript, 3 Oct. 1979
[Disputes the disposition of the "Energy Conservation Bond Issue".]
Box 30 Folder 509
Subway Automation, paper
Box 30 Folder 510
A Suggested Fare Structure and Fare Collection Program, paper, 26 July 1962
Box 30 Folder 511
Suggestions for New Subway Maps, fragment, Feb. 1978
Box 30 Folder 512
Tarifacion del Uso de Las Calles, Tema No. 8, lecture notes, 12 July 1976
Box 30 Folder 513
La Tarification des Transports Urbains: Principes Économiques, Possibilitiés Techniques, Astreintes Politiques, fragment, 5 Nov. 1973
Box 30 Folder 514
Testimony before a New York Committee, transcript, ca. 1992
Box 30 Folder 515
Testimony before the Federal Highway Administration in the Matter of Bayonne Bridge, George Washington Bridge, Goethals Bridge and Outerbridge Crossing Tolls, Docket No. 76-9, transcript
[Submitted on behalf of The Environmental Defense Fund.]
Box 30 Folder 516
Testimony on behalf of the Environmental Defense Fund concerning PATH fares, transcript
Box 30 Folder 517
Traffic Measures to Reduce Air Pollution, paper, Feb. 1987
Box 30 Folder 518
Transfers, notes
Box 30 Folder 519
Transit Automation (Tehran), notes
Box 30 Folder 520
Transit Fare Action Program, essay, 28 March 1973
[Discusses New York City.]
Box 30 Folder 521
Two Means of Alleviating Rush-Hour Crowding: A Discussion, paper, 1973-1975
[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
Types of Congestion Pricing Models, paper, Nov. 1994
[Summary review and classification including discussion of turbulence, triggernecks, traffic lights, stochasticity, and bathtub models.]
Box 30 Folder 523
The Use of Tolls in Controlling Urban Traffic Congestion, paper, Nov. 1972
[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.]
Subseries III.9: Urban Economics
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
The Allocation to Land to Transportation, paper, 1966
[Includes Appendix A. One Dimensional Model of Area Optimization.]
Box 30 Folder 525
The City as a Firm, paper, 1964 & 1977
[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.]
Box 30 Folder 526
Comments regarding "Goals for NYC", second draft
Box 30 Folder 527
Defining Land Value for Tax Purposes, paper, 1969-1970
[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
The Efficient City, paper
[Establishes the relationship between land rents and transport costs. See also The City as a Firm, Box 30, Folder 525.]
Box 31 Folder 529
Externalities in Urban Development, paper, 1969-1970
[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.]
Box 31 Folder 530
Financing City Government..., fragment
Box 31 Folder 531
Henry George, Economies of Scale and Land Taxation, paper, 9 Jan. 1992
[For COPE Meeting, 9 Jan. 1992.]
Box 31 Folder 532
The Impact on Land Values of Taxing Buildings, paper, Sept. 1969
[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.]
Box 31 Folder 533
Land Values and Economics of Scale in the Urban Environment, paper
Box 31 Folder 534
Making New York City Function, paper, 1995-1996
Box 31 Folder 535
Making New York City Work, paper, 1992
[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.]
Box 31 Folder 536
Notes for the panel on New York City in Crisis--Causes Encampment for Citizenship, notes, 16 Sept. 1976
Box 31 Folder 537
Notes on "Road Pricing Techniques" by Kiran Bhatt, review, Feb. 1974
Box 31 Folder 538
Notes on the Land Tax, notes
[See also The Impact on Land Values of Taxing Buildings, Box 31, Folder 532.]
Box 31 Folder 539
Notes re Unsuspected Perversities in the Theory of Location by Richard G. Lipsey and Curtis Eaton, book review, Sept. 1972
Box 31 Folder 540
Optimum Cities as Efficient Competitive Firms, paper, Oct. 1973
[For conference on Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, Georgetown University. Discusses GHV theorem and decentralization.]
Box 31 Folder 541
Propositions Relating to Site Value Taxation, paper, 1995
[For TRED, 29-30 Sept. and Levy Institute, 2-4 Nov.]
Box 31 Folder 542
La Renta de Terrenos Urbanos Como Fuente de Subvenciones de Servicios de Naturaleza Local, Tema No. 14, lecture notes, 20 July 1976
Box 31 Folder 543
Site Value Taxes and Public Services, notes, 1991
[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.]
Box 31 Folder 544
Subroutine for Computing the Area of a Polygon containing all points that are closer to a given point then to any of N other points in a plane, notes
Box 31 Folder 545
Transition Effects of Shifting to a Land Tax, notes, June 1970
Box 31 Folder 546
Urban Issues: Some Novel Solutions, notes, 10 Nov. 1981
[Notes for talk at Scarsdale Adult School, 10 Nov. 1991]
Box 31 Folder 547
Urban Model, notes
Box 31 Folder 548
Urban Street Model, notes
Box 31 Folder 549
The Use of Land for Transportation, paper, Feb. 1964
[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
User Charges as Alternatives to Building Taxes, paper, March 1971
[Discusses education, police, pollution, urban transport (trucks), and utilities. See also General and Specific Financing of Urban Services, Box 46, Folder 760.]
Subseries III.10: Miscellaneous
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.
Box 32 Folder 551
Algebra, notes
Box 32 Folder 552
Bons Mots, notes
Box 32 Folder 553
Cargas Que Varien Segun el Ingreso del Pagante, Tema No. 12, lecture notes, 1976
Box 32 Folder 554
Causality, Control, and Observation, paper
[Includes comments on paper by H. Wold.]
Box 32 Folder 555
Classifications and Codes, list, 1956 & 1962
Box 32 Folder 556
Comments on "Investment, Dividend, and External Finance Behavior of Firms" by Phoebus J. Dhrymes and Mordecai Kurz, and on "Business Fixed Investment: A Marriage of Fact and Fancy" by W. H. Locke Anderson, review
[Discusses produced durables.]
Box 32 Folder 557
Curiosa, notes
Box 32 Folder 558
Definition and Measurement of Risk, fragment
Box 32 Folder 559
The Definition and Measurement of Risk: Individual, Social and Market Risk, paper, 19 Oct. 1967
[For Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, Montreal, 19 Oct. 1967]
Box 32 Folder 560
Democracy Beyond Majority Rule, paper, 9 Feb. 1995
Box 32 Folder 561
Economic Solutions and Political Hurdles (An Economist's Utopia), paper, [1992]
[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
An Economist's View of Human Rights, notes, 9 March 1978
[Notes for talk to General Education Seminar. Provides insight into Vickrey's moral views.]
Box 32 Folder 563
Eye Twisters, sketches
Box 32 Folder 564
Factors Underlying Soviet and Western Growth and their Implications, notes
[Notes related to Russia and peace.]
Box 32 Folder 565
Figgerin, notes
Box 32 Folder 566
File Classifications, notes
Box 32 Folder 567
Financianento de la Ensenanza Superior, Tema No. 13, lecture notes, 19 July 1976
[Discusses financing higher education.]
Box 32 Folder 568
The Generalized Queen's Problem, notes
Box 32 Folder 569
Increased Minimum Wage Could Increase Employment, letter to the editor, 6 April 1996
Box 32 Folder 570
Issues in Student Loan Programs, paper, Dec. 1966
Box 32 Folder 571
Letter to Editorial Board of MEASURE, letter, 28 Dec. 1976
Box 32 Folder 572
Lumber Model, notes
Box 32 Folder 573
Matrix Algebra sans Determinants, notes
[Illustrates Vickrey's mathematical creativity.]
Box 32 Folder 574
Medical Insurance and Employment Burdens, essay, 22 May 1994
[Argues against using a payroll tax to finance medical insurance and makes the point that making medical insurance part of payroll tax is distortionary.]
Box 32 Folder 575
MLS, fragment
Box 32 Folder 576
My Innovative Failures in Economics, address, 1992-1993
[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.]
Box 32 Folder 577
A Note on "Qualifying Requirements" in Unemployment Insurance, essay, 8 Sept. 1967
[Discusses adverse selection and argues against stiffening requirements.]
Box 33 Folder 578
Notes and Comments on the February 20, 1967 draft of the memorandum on An Educational Opportunity Bank from the panel on Educational Research and Development, review, ca. 1967
Box 33 Folder 579
Notes on "Impact of Competition..." by Chapman, review
Box 33 Folder 580
Notes on "Issue-Elasticity in Political Systems" by Strickland and Johnston, review
Box 33 Folder 581
Notes on "On Search and Equilibrium Price Distributions" by J. E. Stiglitz, review, 19 Aug. 1980
Box 33 Folder 582
Notes on Operations, notes
[Apparently algorithms developed for numerical illustrations.]
Box 33 Folder 583
Notes on "Putting Americans Back to Work" by Maco Stewart, review, 17 March 1993
Box 33 Folder 584
Notes on "Rehabilitating Cardinal Utility" by R. Cooter, review
Box 33 Folder 585
Notes on the Financing of Health Services, notes, 16 Sept. 1993
[Discusses typology of pure forms.]
Box 33 Folder 586
Notes on "Welfare Foundations of Congestion Economics" by McGillivray, review
Box 33 Folder 587
Outline of Topics for MIT Urban Seminar, notes, Aug. 1977
Box 33 Folder 588
The Pareto Optimality of Competitive Equilibrium, paper
Box 33 Folder 589
Pastimes, notes, ca. 1969
Box 33 Folder 590
Personal Notes and References, notes
[Mainly names and telephone numbers.]
Box 33 Folder 591
A Proposal for Financing Higher Education, paper, 1959-1961
Box 33 Folder 592
Puzzles, notes, 1949-1966
Box 33 Folder 593
Report on Mission to Zambia, paper, June 1975
[For United Nations. Contains practical recommendations for applying cumulative averaging, marginal cost pricing, etc.]
Box 33 Folder 594
Returns and Homogeneity: A Clarification, paper
Box 33 Folder 595
Review of India's Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs by Francine R. Frankel, book review, 1971
Box 33 Folder 596
The Sociology of Concentration Camps, report, Sept. 1950
[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.]
Box 33 Folder 597
Some Additional Thoughts after perusing Cartter's "Some Financial Implications...", essay
Box 33 Folder 598
Some Notes on Computer Repertoires, with Special Reference to UNIVAC II and 1105, paper, 1958
Box 33 Folder 599
Some Notes on Current Economic Condition, notes, June 1980
[Argues that unemployment is worse than inflation.]
Box 33 Folder 600
Some Notes on the Theory and Practice of Sorting on Digital Computers, paper, 1 Nov. 1959
Box 34 Folder 601
Sorting in the Light of Information Theory: Some New Techniques, paper, July 1965
[Related to the problem of processing data for congestion pricing.]
Box 34 Folder 602
Sorting on Digital Computers--Some Notes Based on Information Theory, notes, April 1964
Box 34 Folder 603
Sources of Turbulence in Conflict Situations, notes, 26 Oct. 1976
[Notes for the University Seminar on Peace, 26 Oct. 1976]
Box 34 Folder 604
Statement at Hearings on Price Statistics of the Federal Government Joint Economic Committee, Subcommittee on Economic Statistics, statement, 5 May 1961
[Disagrees with Stigler Committee on treatment of insurance.]
Box 34 Folder 605
Statement before the Water Resources Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Public Works, statement, 1 April 1977
[Concerns user charges on Island Waterways. Includes statement of why Vickrey considers efficiency to be of paramount importance.]
Box 34 Folder 606
Temas a Elaborarse por el Dr. Vickrey, Caracas, outline, ca. 1976
Box 34 Folder 607
Teoria del Progression, Tema No. 17, lecture notes, 22 July 1976
Box 34 Folder 608
Testimony on Cable before the NYC Board of Estimates, speech, 21 June 1983
[Argues for better regulation in New York City.]
Box 34 Folder 609
Theoretical Economics, bibliography, ca. 1964
Box 34 Folder 610
Theoretical Economics, illustrations, ca. 1964
Box 34 Folder 611
Theoretical Economics, outline, ca. 1964
Box 34 Folder 612
Theory and Welfare Notes, notes
Box 34 Folder 613
Theory Teaching Program, notes, 1946 & 1953
Box 34 Folder 614
Tic Tac Toe, notes
[Attempts to algorithmize.]
Box 34 Folder 615
The University Economist and the Labor Movement, paper
Box 34 Folder 616
Venezuela Course, notes, 1976
[Mainly rough drafts of lecture notes and exams.]
Box 34 Folder 617
Miscellaneous Fragments, fragments
Box 34 Folder 618
Miscellaneous Notes, notes
[Notes on half a dozen different problems.]