Cage 592 Guide to the Millard Walter Hastay Papers 1937-1981 Hastay (Millard W.) Papers Finding aid prepared by Harvey Young Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2012
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Cage 592 Hastay, Millard Walter, 1916- Millard Walter Hastay Papers 1937-1981 9 containers. 12 linear feet of shelf space. Correspondence, research notes and teaching materials. Some materials concern research on expectations and business cycles. Collection materials are in English

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.

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.

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.

This collection is open for research use.

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

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).

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Hastay, Millard Walter, 1916- --Archives Washington State University--Faculty -- Archives National Bureau of Economic Research Economics -- Study and teaching--Washington (State)--Pullman Science Colleges and Universities Washington (State) Economics teachers -- 20th century--Washington (State)--Pullman--Archives

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

Series 1. Columbia River Water Research 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 teaching Series 2.1. Courses in Economics--Graduate 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 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 Research 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 Projects 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 Concerns 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) 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