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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES Samuel Hollander Fonds Prepared by: Marnee Gamble October 2, 1998 Revised by Tys Klumpenhouwer, April 2012 © University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services, 2012 1 University of Toronto Archives Samuel Hollander Fonds Table of Contents BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ................................................................................................................. 3 SCOPE AND CONTENT ................................................................................................................ 4 SERIES 1 PERSONAL ............................................................................................................... 5 SERIES 2 CORRESPONDENCE............................................................................................ 5 SERIES 3 LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION .............................................................. 6 SERIES 4 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ADMINISTRATION .................................... 6 SERIES 5 TEACHING .............................................................................................................. 7 SERIES 6 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES ........................................................................... 8 SERIES 7 REVIEWS AND REPORTS TO JOURNALS AND PUBLISHERS ............. 8 Sub-Series 1 Informal Reviews and Marginalia ..................................................................... 8 SERIES 8 ARTICLES AND PAPERS ..................................................................................... 9 SERIES 9 PUBLISHING ........................................................................................................... 9 SERIES 10 BOOKS ................................................................................................................. 10 Sub-Series 1 - The Sources of Increased Efficiency: A Study of DuPont Rayon Plants .... 10 Sub-Series 2 - The Economics of Adam Smith ........................................................................ 10 Sub-Series 3 - The Economics of David Ricardo ..................................................................... 11 Sub-Series 4 - The Economics of John Stuart Mill. Vol.I & II .............................................. 11 Sub-Series 5 - Classical Economics ............................................................................................. 12 Sub-Series 6 - Ricardo. The New View : Collected Essays I and The Literature of Political Economy: Collected Essays II ..................................................................................................... 12 Sub-Series 7 - The Economics of Thomas Robert Malthus ................................................... 12 Sub-Series 8 - The Economics of Karl Marx: Analysis and Application .............................. 13 Sub-Series 9 - Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy ........................................... 13 Sub-Series 10 - Collected Essays IV (Proposed) ....................................................................... 13 SERIES 11 STUDENT PAPERS .............................................................................................. 14 Appendix 1: Series 1 Personal .......................................................................................................... 15 Appendix 2: Series 2 Correspondence ............................................................................................ 16 Appendix 3: Series 5 Teaching ......................................................................................................... 19 Appendix 4: Series 6 Professional Activities .................................................................................. 20 Appendix 5: Series 7 Reviews and Reports to Journals or Publishers ....................................... 21 Appendix 6: Series 7 Sub-series 1 Informal Reviews and Marginalia ....................................... 21 Appendix 7: Series 8 Articles and Papers ...................................................................................... 22 2 University of Toronto Archives Samuel Hollander Fonds BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Samuel Hollander was born in 1937 in London England. He grew up in an orthodox Jewish family where at the age of 16 he was sent to Gateshead-on-Tyne for Talmudic training. After returning to London in 1953 and completing “Advanced Level” requirements at Hendon Technical College and Killburn Polytechnic, he entered the London School of Economics. There, he was taught by well known economists, Lionel Robbins, Bernard Corry and Kurt Klappholz, to name a few. He graduated with a B. Sc. in Economics in 1959 and went to Princeton University where he completed his A.M. and Ph.D. by 1963. He was recruited by Vincent Bladen to come to the University of Toronto to teach the history of economic thought and received his first appointment as Assistant Professor in 1963, rising through the ranks to Professor in 1970. In 1984 he received the distinction of University Professor, a lifetime honorary title held by only 14 professors at any one given time. Other prestigious honours include being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1976 and the First Bladen Lecturer, 1982 and Innis Lecturer, 1982. Hollander’s research has been recognized by the support of various fellowships and grants including the Guggenheim Fellowship (1968-69), Senior Canada Council Grant (1969-71), the Killam Senior Research Fellowship (1974-75), Connaught Senior Fellowship (1984-85) as well as numerous Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grants. Hollander’s diligent research and innovative interpretations of the British classical economists have earned him distinction and recognition internationally in the field of the history of economic thought. Since the publication of The Economics of David Ricardo in 1979, Hollander’s works (numerous books and over 100 articles) have been the subject of unprecedented debate among academics. In a review of one of his recent books The Economics of Thomas Robert Malthus, the author, Walter Eltis of Oxford, refers to a possible “Hollanderian approach to the history of economics” (History of Economic Thought Newsletter, No. 59 Winter 1997 pp.20-23). In 1991, a campaign to procure Hollander a Nobel Prize was initiated. Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson of MIT wrote to University of Toronto President Robert Prichard in support of this campaign and noted that “Professor Hollander of your university, by virtue of the depth and breadth of his writings on classical economics, I have to regard as virtual dean of his discipline”. At Hollander’s request, this endeavour was put on hold until the publication of his Malthus manuscript. In September 1998, in view of his early retirement from the University of Toronto, a two day conference was organized in his honour. Since 2000, Hollander has been a professor, lecturer and research associate in the Department of Economics at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel. He remains an active member in the political economy community, and continues to write extensively. He has recently published The Economics of Karl Marx: Analysis and Application in 2008, Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy in 2011, and Essays on Classical and Marxian Political Economy in 2012/13. 3 University of Toronto Archives Samuel Hollander Fonds SCOPE AND CONTENT 1956-2013 7.43 m multimedia These accessions of personal records provide a fairly complete representation of Samuel Hollander’s professional life as an academic. The accessions cover his entire career from his student days at the London School of Economics to his retirement from the University of Toronto in 1998 and his appointment at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel in 2000. Correspondence, found in the various series gives a rich commentary on his professional endeavours and gives a good overview of the debates surrounding Hollander’s work. Lecture notes and taped lectures document how his ideas were taught in the classroom and his Ph.D. files found in Series 5 show his dedication to the teaching and mentor roles for which he is so highly regarded. The records are arranged in 11 series. ACCESSIONS: B1998-0027, B2012-0018 ACCESS: Open except for Series 3 (Letters of Recommendation) - See Series Description for details. 4 University of Toronto Archives Samuel Hollander Fonds SERIES 1 PERSONAL 1960-2011 0.45 m Textual; graphic Contains personal correspondence mainly documenting Hollander’s achievements including many congratulatory notes from colleagues regarding awards or the publication of his major works. Correspondence and related documents also document his appointment as University Professor and the campaign beginning in 1991 to procure for him a Nobel Prize in Economics. Also documented are his appointments through the University ranks, his salary, and the awarding of grants to support his research including activity reports and grant applications. This series also contains records collected by Hollander over his academic and professional career, and includes various graduate school lecture notes, school transcripts, honorary degrees, and a heavily annotated copy of David Ricardo’s book Principles of Political Economy which he kept separate from other professional and academic papers. Filed at the beginning of each accession is his most updated C.V. at the time the records were acquired (see B1998-0027/001(1) and B2012-0018/001(1)). There is also a portrait of Hollander, to be found in B1998-0027/001P. SEE: B1998-0027/001 B2012-0018/001 - /002 – for detailed file