Millard Walter Hastay Papers

Millard Walter Hastay Papers, 1937-1981

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Hastay, Millard Walter, 1916-
Title: Millard Walter Hastay Papers
Dates: 1937-1981 (inclusive)
19371981
Quantity: 9 containers., (12 linear feet of shelf space.)
Collection Number: Cage 592
Summary: Correspondence, research notes and teaching materials. Some materials concern research on expectations and business cycles.
Repository: Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research use.
Languages: English
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Millard Hastay was born in Montana, Sep. 8, 1916. He graduated from high school at Portland, Oregon, in 1934. He completed undergraduate education at Reed College in 1941. His graduate education was at Stanford University and at Columbia University. He received the Ph.D. degree from Columbia in 1958. From 1946 to 1958 he worked as an economics researcher with the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York. He also taught economics at the City College of New York from 1954 to 1958. In 1958 Hastay began employment at Washington State University. There he specialized in economic theory, econometrics, statistics and related subjects. He retired in 1981.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The papers of Millard Hastay consist of research materials and drafts associated with research projects, both at the National Bureau of Economic Research and at Washington State University, as well as correspondence, memoranda, and a variety of documents concerning economics classes and graduate education at Washington State University. The arrangement is that in use by Hastay at the time the papers were transferred to the Libraries.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 592, Millard Walter Hastay Papers . Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This arrangement groups the papers into six series: 1) Columbia River water economics research projects, 2) Instruction and teaching, 3) National Bureau of Economic Research, 4) Graduate student projects; miscellaneous projects, 5) Professional and university faculty concerns, 6) Oversize and legal size materials.

Acquisition Information

Papers of Millard W. Hastay, Professor of Economics at Washington State University, were donated to the Washington State University Libraries by Mr. Hastay in l981 (Accession No. MS81-36).

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series 1. Columbia River Water ResearchReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	A Study of Certain Aspects of the Water Resources of the State of Washington,	1966
1	2	A Study of Water Resources in Washington	1966-1969
1	3	Advisory Committee on Weather Control	1967
1	4	An Initial Study of the Water Resources of the State of Washington	1967
1	5	Analysis Using Orthogonal Polynomials and Autocorrelation	undated
1	6	Columbia Basin Inter-agency Committee Water Management Subcommittee	1956-1961
1	7	Columbia River as a Resource, Present and Future Values of Columbia River Waters,	1969-1970
1	8	Columbia River Basin Streamflow	1957-1961
1	9	Columbia River Valuations	1968
1	10-11	Folder numbers not used
1	12	Economic Models, Value of the Columbia River	1967-1978
1	13	Equilibrium System, Water Coefficient	1963
1	14	Evaluation of the Columbia River as a Resource, Production Studies	1969
1	15	Hydroelectric Power Systems, Research	1964-1970
1	16	Manufacturing Data	1960-1964
1	17	Marginal Pollution Studies	1968
1	18	Measurement of Technological Progress	1967
1	19	Meetings and Consultation	1963-1968
2	20	Outline of Report on Washington Projections	undated
2	21	Participant Reports	1968-1969
2	22	Precipitation and Watershed Studies	1964-1970
2	23	Productivity	1960-1963
2	24	Productivity and Relative Charts, Includes Forestry	1967
2	25	Projection Syllabus and Miscellaneous Notes	1963
2	26	Revision of Paper on Snake River Diversion	1971
2	27	Specialty Conference, Pullman, Diversion of Columbia Waters	1968
2	28	Statistical Evaluation of Cloud-Seeding Critique	1978
2	29	Statistical Evaluation of Effects of Cloud Seeding, Runoff of Skagit River Watershed	1968
2	30	Folder number not used
2	31	University Council on Water Resources	1966-1968
2	32	Washington State Interindustry Projections, Appendices	1960-2065
2	33	Washington Water Research Center	1964
2	34	Washington Water Research Center Budget	1968-1969
2	35	Water Resource Research	1965-1968
2	36	Weather Modification Study, Concrete	undated
2	37	Working Notes	1962-1968

Series 2. Instruction and teachingReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Series 2.1. Courses in Economics--Graduate
Box	Folder
2	38	Bibliographies	1959-1967
2	39	Course Outlines	1976
2	40	Course Proposals	1964-1969
3	41	Economics 340: Public Finance	1960
3	42	Economics 401: Advanced Economic Theory, Notes	1958-1961
3	43	Economics 410: Mathematical Economics	1974-1976
3	44	Economics 411: Econometrics	1964-1978
3	45	Economics 411: Econometrics	1971
3	46	Economics 411: Econometrics	1973-1975
3	47	Economics 411: Econometrics	1978-1979
3	48	Economics 411: Econometrics	1980
3	49	Economics 501: Systematic Microeconomics	1963-1964
3	50	Economics 501: Systematic Microeconomics	1976-1977
3	51	Economics 501: Systematic Microeconomics	1976-1979
3	52	Economics 502: Macroeconomic Analysis	1962-1964
3	53	Economics 502: Macroeconomic Analysis	1963-1967
4	54	Economics 503: Methodology in Economics	1964-1970
4	55	Economics 503: Methodology in Economics	1970-1975
4	57	Economics 512: Seminar Evaluations	undated
4	58	Economics 520: Monetary Theory and Policy	1959-1963
4	59	Economics Courses	1948-1976
4	60	Grad File, Spring	1980
4	61	Graduate Programs	1969-1973
4	62	Oral Preliminaries	1968-1971
4	63	Ph.D Core Examinations	1977-1981
4	64	Ph.D Examinations, Economics	1942-1951
4	65	Ph.D Preliminary Examination, Econometrics	1962-1980
4	66	Ph.D Preliminary Examinations	1958-1969
4	67	Ph.D Preliminary Examinations Theory	1960-1976
4	68	Theses	1965-197?
4	69	Theses and Requirements	1962-1977
		Series 2.2. Courses in Economics, Undergraduate
Box	Folder
4	70	Economics 9, Notes	undated
4	71	Economics 21, Notes	undated
4	72	Economics 301: Intermediate Economic Theory	1959-1981
4	73	Economics 301: Theory of the Firm and Market Policy	1969-1974
5	74	Economics 301: Theory of the Firm and Market Policy	1972-1973
5	75	Economics 301: Theory of the Firm and Market Policy	1978
5	76	Economics 301: Theory of the Firm and Market Policy	1980
5	77	Economics 301: Managerial Version	1977-1978
5	78	Economics 320: Money and Banking	1960
5	79	Economics 511: Econometrics	1974
5	80	Economics Exams	1958-1964
5	81	Economics Grade Books	1957-1977

Series 3. National Bureau of Economic ResearchReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
5	82	Abramovitz, Moe: Conversations with	1956
5	83	Analysis of Businessmen's Expectations	1954-1956
5	84	Annual Report Summaries	1952-1953
5	85	Basic Diffusion Data, Manufacturers' Inventories, Weighted Balances and Diffusion	1948-1956
5	86	Bureau of Labor Statistics Correspondence	1953-1954
5	87	Business Expectations Study	1954-1962
5	88	Classification Problem	1953
5	89	Comments on Capital-Output Ratios and Miscellaneous Materials	undated
5	89.1	Conferences	1952-1963
5	89.2	Cyclical Behavior of Industrial Equipment and Investment	1950
5	90	Data Sheets	1946-1953
5	91	Data Sheets Diffusion	1949-1957
5	92	Diffusion Index, Status of Indicators	1953-1954
5	93	Dun and Bradstreet Survey	1954-1955
5	94	Dun and Bradstreet Weights and Diffusion Indexes	1953-54
5	95	Dun's Expectation Index	1953
5	96	Durable Goods Manufactures	1949-1960
6	97	Electronic Applications	1956
6	98	Evaluations of Papers	1946-1956
6	99	Experiments, Iterations	1946-1953
6	100	Federal Reserve Board Correspondence	1953
6	101	Federal Reserve Board Task Committee on General Business Expectations	1952
6	102	Forecasting Unemployment by Leading Series	1953-1954
6	103	Hand-Written Models	undated
6	104	Indicator Theory	1954
6	105	Long-Cycle Calculations	undated
6	106	Long-Cycle Experiments	undated
6	107	Long-Cycle Study, Dr. Hastay and Milton Friedman	undated
6	108	Long Cycles, late Nineteenth Century, early Twentieth Century	undated
6	109	Miscellaneous Correspondence	1954-1955
6	110	Mitchell, Wesley C.: Hastay's Correspondence	1946-1948.
6	111	Mitchell, Wesley C.: Supplementary Bibliography	1949-1953
6	112	Models: First-Stage Regression	1947-1957
6	113	Models: Least Squares and Reduced Form	1953-1957
6	114	Models: Second-Stage Regression	1954-1957
6	115	Modigliani, Franco, to Millard Hastay, and Data	1958
6	116	Monetary Factors in Business Cycles	1948
6	117	National Bureau of Economic Research	1937-1951
6	118	National Bureau of Economic Research Advisory Services, Millard Hastay to Dr. Lawrence Klein, February 6	1953
6	119	Notes on Seasonals	1940-1949
6	120	Notes on Technique	undated
6	121	Outline of Models	1949-1966
6	122	Papers on Seasonal Variations	1955
6	123	Preliminary Report on Economic Projections For Selected Geographic Areas--1929-2020, Vol. I, United States Water Resources Council	1968
6	124	Preliminary Report On Economic Projections for Selected Geographic Areas--1929-2020, Vol. I, United States Water Resources Council	1968
6	125	Public Capital Outlays	1945-1950
6	126	Realized Diffusion Models, U1--Estimates of Y and Contributing Components	1957
6	127	Regression, 1-108; Estimates of Y	undated
6	128	Robert Ferber's Review of Dun and Bradstreet Paper	1955
6	129	Spatial Aspects of Economic Change	1947
6	130	Seminar Talk on Research in Businessmen's Expectations	undated
6	131	Seventeenth European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Kiel, Germany
7	132	Survey of Businessmen's Expectations, Dun and Bradstreet	1954-1966
7	133	Sweden, Basic Data	1949-1961
7	134	Time--Series Data Sheet	1946-1965
7	135	Wallis, W. Allen, Rough and Ready Statistical Tests,	1952

Series 4. Graduate Student and Miscellaneous ProjectsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
7	136	Abu-Bakr, Ahmed, Ph.D. Thesis	1974
7	137	Administrative Procedures	1975
7	137.1	Consumption Expenditures, Richard Stillson	1963
7	138	Dissertation Proposals	1954-1970
7	139	Exam for Junior Statistician	1956
7	140	Extension for Gary A. Lynch	1969
7	141	Faculty-Student Coordinating Committee	1967-1970
7	142	Grohs, Roy, Ph.D. Thesis	1974-1977
7	143	Hodgson, Frank to Millard C. Hastay, Projected Washington Interindustry Structure	1967-1968
7	144	Letters of Inquiry	1970
7	145	Lewis, Edward E., A Conspectus of Business Cycle Problems	undated
7	146	Math Sciences Council	1968
7	147	Ryder, David Owen, Ph.D. Thesis Proposal	1976
7	147.1	Statistics Curriculum in the Age of Computers ; Discussions of Mr. Lebergott's and Dr. Hoagland's Papers; and: Francis J. Kottke
7	148	Tonkovitch, Franz, Thesis	1976
7	149	Walsh, Vivian C.: Ad Hoc Committee to Evaluate his Publications	1969

Series 5. Professional and Faculty ConcernsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
7	150	Administrative Notices and Graduate Procedures	1973-1976
7	151	Bibliographic	1947-1980
7	152	Conference on Expectations, Uncertainty, and Business Behavior	1954-1956
7	153	Cooperation with Agriculture-Economics	1973-1978
7	154	Correspondence, Miscellaneous	1971-1980
7	155	Department Rules and Policies	1977-1979
7	156	Funded Research	1973-1975
7	157	Graduate Faculty Candidacies	1971-1980
7	158	Hastay, Millard, Correspondence Personal and Professional	1949-1965
7	159	Hastay, Millard, Correspondence Personal and Professional
8	160	Hastay, Millard, Publications and Correspondence	1952-1960
8	161	Letters of Reference	1959-1975
8	162	Letters of Reference	1960-1968
8	163	Letters of Reference	1964-1970
8	164	Letters of Reference	1972-1981
8	165	Library Procedure	1977-1979
8	166	Managerial Economics Committee	1979
8	167	Publication Lists	1962-1971
8	168	Research Grants	1959-1969
8	169	Research Topics	1962-1978
8	170	Resumes	1963-1973
8	171	Resumes, Statistical	1962-1971
8	172	Staff Vitae	undated
8	173	Tenure	1968-1973
8	174	Visiting Scholars, Procedures and Correspondence	1961

Series 6. Legal size, oversize (Misc. Economics Projects)Return to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
9	175	California and Washington Interindustry Structure, based on Moore-Peterson	1963-1965
9	176	Productivity Studies	undated
9	177	The Cyclical Behavior of Investment,	undated
9	178	Washington Interindustry Studies, Projections, 1960-2065 and: Small Business Administration Surveys
9	179	Washington State Projections: Population, Labor Force, Employment	1945-1976

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Economics -- Study and teaching--Washington (State)--Pullman

Personal Names

Hastay, Millard Walter, 1916- --Archives (creator)

Corporate Names

National Bureau of Economic Research
Washington State University--Faculty -- Archives

Occupations

Economics teachers -- 20th century--Washington (State)--Pullman--Archives

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