Register of the Vervon Orval Watts papers
1898 March 25 | Born, Manitoba, Canada |
1918 | Graduated from University of Manitoba |
1923 | M.A., Harvard University |
1939 | Economic counsel, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce |
1944 | Author, Do We Want Free Enterprise? |
1946 | Editorial director, Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) |
1952 | Author, Away From Freedom |
1954 | Author, Union Monopoly |
1955 | Author, United Nations: Planned Tyranny |
1963-1984 | Director of economic education and chairman of the Division of Social Studies, Northwood University |
1976 | Author, Politics vs. Prosperity |
post-1923 | Ph.D., Harvard University |
circa 1925-1939 | Taught at various colleges and universities, including Clark University, Harvard University, Wellesley, Antioch College, Carlton College, Claremont Men's College, Pepperdine University, and Campbell College |
1938 | Author, Why Are We So Prosperous? |
1967 | Author, Free Markets or Famine |
1993 | Died, Palm Springs, California |
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Biographical File 1940, 1944
Certificate of appreciation 1944
Clipping 1944
Flyer 1940
Correspondence 1922-1983
General 1931-1974
A-F 1937-1974
G-K 1937-1961
L-P 1931-1959
Q-Z 1937-1961
Letters to the editor 1935-1960
Unidentified 1935-1960
American Provident Society 1944
Anti-Defamation League 1955
Ayres, Leonard P. 1933
Babcock, Mary Elizabeth 1961
Bell, Charles R. 1958-1959
Binkley, Harold 1923
Blumenthal, Sidney 1945
Braden, Spruille 1958
Buck, Walter H. 1945
Buffet, Howard 1947
Call, Joseph L. 1957-1958
Carver, T. N. 1941-1947
Chodorov, Frank 1947
Clise, J. W. 1957-1959
Congress of Freedom, Inc. 1959
Courtney, William H., 1950
Cowling, Donald J. 1961
Crane, George W. 1958-1961
Crane, Jasper E. 1961
Davis, Ralph 1958
Edwards, Le Roy M. 1943
Fairchild, Fred Rogers 1946-1947
Fick, Samuel L. 1944
Freedom School, Inc. 1958-1961
Fulton, James A. 1949
Gipson, J. H. 1945-1957
Hart, Merwin K. 1957-1958
Hart, William 1945
Hazlitt, Henry 1949
Hiestand, Edgar W. 1958-1961
Hodgson, R. T. 1945
Hoff, Trygve J. B., 1946-1949
Hoiles, R. C. 1955-1959
Johnson, Fred H. 1958
Jones, Frederick W. 1946
Kershner, Howard E. 1955-1959
Kohlberg, Alfred 1955
Kooser, Ernest O. 1945
Kuchel, Thomas H. 1961
Lane, Rose Wilder 1944-1957
LeFevre, Robert 1955
Lombard, Norman 1945
Lowe, Dorothy 1922-1924
Luten, Daniel B. 1936
MacArthur, Harold 1961
Macbeth, Norman 1945
Mann, William D. 1957-1961
Marion, Guy E. 1939
Maughmer, G. F., 1946
Mickey, Karl B. 1945
Mullendore, William C. 1944-1952
Murata, Toshio 1958
Nystrom, Paul H., 1943
Pew, J. Howard 1961
Phillips, Charles W. 1945
Radcliffe, Harry S. 1945
Rapp, Robert 1955
Read, Leonard E. 1942-1955
Retail Controllers Association 1945
Richardson, Annice 1955
Robb, John C. 1958
Rogers, Robert G. 1958
Rorty, M. C. 1933-1934
Russell, John Henry 1961
Saxon, O. Glenn 1962
Schwarz, Fred 1983
Sexson, Paul A. 1944
Shamer, G. P. 1955
Shelly, Thomas J. 1958
Shelton, James E. 1946
Sheppard, G. A. 1958
Sheridan, J. Paul 1958
Slaton, John M. 1945
Smith, Walter B. 1951
Smoot, Dan 1957
Southern California Edison Co. 1951
Spahr, Walter E. 1958
Spurgeon, W. H., Jr. 1958
Stephens, Guy C. 1945
Thompson, Joseph S. 1945
Trippet, Oscar A. 1945
Turner, W. Homer 1958
Untereiner, Ray E. 1943-1945
Watts, Mr. (father) undated
Winans, Paul 1946
Wright, John S. 1945
Young, Clyde L. 1937-1944
Speeches and Writings 1930-1983
Columns
Christian Economics 1951-1952
Southern California Business Review 1939-1941
Yellow Springs News 1932-1936
"The American Mollusk," undated
Article on banking undated
Article on communism undated
Article on interest rates and production undated
Article on mass production undated
"Buying Power Must Circulate," undated
"Economic Rehabilitation," undated
"An Economist's Reaction to the Proposals of Wm. P. Hapgood," undated
"Fallacies," undated
"Keynesism or Keynesianism," undated
"Money and Free Markets," undated
"An Old, Old Story!," undated
"Principles of Economics," undated
"On Selfishness and Progress," undated
"Social Inequality," undated
Speech on agriculture undated
"We Are Paying the Bill Now!," undated
"What Price Inflation?," undated
"When Enterprise Was a Privilege," undated
Writing on economics undated
Article on international payments 1930
"A Defense of Capitalism," 1930
"When Will Prices Stop Rising?," 1933 June 24
"Capital and Wages," 1936
"The Meaning of Freedom," 1936
"New Deal Bureaucracy," 1936
"The Significance of the Republican Convention," 1936
"The Tennessee Valley Authority," 1936
"Technics and Civilization," 1936 January
"The New Deal and the Negro," 1936 June 8
"Government and the People," 1936 June 26
"Liberalism," 1936 June 26
"The New Deal and Freedom," 1936 June 26
"The President's 'Cure' for Unemployment," 1936 June 26
"Spiritual and Moral Aspects of Business ('Material') Prosperity," 1936 June 26
Writing on Karl Marx 1937 January 24
Finding Words for Common Sense 1938
Why Are We So Prosperous? 1938
"The Ham-and-Eggers Call It 'The Banana-Peel Movement,'" 1939
"Ham-and-Eggers Know Their 'Warrants' Will Be 'Hot,'" 1939
"Some Hurdles for the Economics Teacher," 1939 February
Article on inequality and Henry Wallace 1940
Lecture outlines, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 1940
Report of the Committee on Production for Use 1940
"War Lessons for the United States," 1940 May
"Discussion," 1941 December
Article on price fixing 1942
"Price Freezing," 1942
"Prospects for New Industries in Southern California," 1942 July
"The New Deal-Nature and Origins," 1943 March 12
"Post-war Boom or Collapse," lecture outline 1943 July 19
"Post-war Boom or Depression?," 1943 December
The Twilight of Free Enterprise 1944 November 2
"Free Enterprise Is Free," 1945 April
"Robin Hood Economics Not What the United States Wants," 1945 April
Remarks 1945 May 13
"Promoting Communism through Currency Inflation," 1945 June 19
Article on housing shortage 1946
"So You Believe in Rent Control?," 1946
"Writer Scores Silly Tommy-Rot of Communism," 1946 February
"Terminate Price Control," 1946 March
"Collectivist Fallacies," speech outline 1946 March 12
"Dealing with Collectivism," 1946 June 17
"Mr. Dewey's Farm Program," 1948
"Money, Currencies, and Credit in Free Markets," 1950
Lectures, Southern California Edison Co. 1950
"Capitalism," 1950 March 25
Away from Freedom 1952 Winter
"Hönan och guldäggen," 1954
The United Nations: Road to War 1955 Spring
"When Will Prices Stop Rising?," 1957 June 24
"Recent Developments of New Economic Theories Relevant to Problems of Public Policy: Keynesian Economics," 1960
"When Enterprise Was a Privilege," 1960
Should We Strengthen the United Nations? 1961 Winter
Economize-or Perish! 1964 Winter
"As a Man Thinks...," 1965 December
"Away from Freedom," 1966
"Why Humans Must Be Free," 1966 March
Free Markets or Famine 1967, 1974
1967 edition
1974 edition
"From Sovereign Governments to Sovereign Individuals," 1967
Hunger Need Not Be 1967
Reactions to President Nixon's Address to the Nation 1969 November 3
"John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: Marxian Ideology Wrapped in Obscenity," 1970
"The 'New Economics' and Marxian Socialism," 1971 March 21
"Are Schools Necessary?," 1971 July
"The Northwood Idea," 1973 March
"Industrialism: Friend or Foe?," 1973 April
"Closing the Generation Gap," 1973 July
"Business and Its Image," 1974 July
"Diplomas versus Education," 1975
"The Law," 1975 August
"Capitalism: Definition-Origins-Dynamics," 1975 October
"Moral Law and Freedom," 1976 January
Politics vs. Prosperity 1978
"The Economics and Politics of Inflation," 1983 March
General 1941-1942
Nos. 1-7 1941
Nos. 8-13 1941
Nos. 14-19 1941
Nos. 20-25 1941
Nos. 26-31 1942
Notes 1920-1940
Academic File 1917-1976
Student career 1917-1932
Lecture and reading notes 1924-1930
Papers 1917-1922
Ph.D thesis 1931-1932
Drafts and fragments 1931
Complete 1932
Syllabus 1929
Teaching career 1930-1977
Correspondence 1930-1976
Course readers 1970-1977
Course readers 1970-1977
Course readers 1977
Examination questions, assignments, and course requirements 1963
Lecture notes and outlines 1935-1960
Reports 1937-1939
Syllabi 1935-1936
Subject File 1933-1979
Advertising 1940-1970
Agriculture 1942-1979
Alberta stamp scrip 1935-1939
Anti-poverty programs 1971-1976
Antitrust and monopolies 1955-1979
Automobile insurance 1937-1941
Banking 1976-1979
Big business 1977-1979
Books 1962-1979
Bretton Woods agreement 1945-1946
Bureaucracy 1940-1979
California Club 1943
Civil rights 1974
Collectivism 1950-1979
Communism 1954-1979
Consumerism 1974-1979
Crime 1976-1979
Culture 1972
Disarmament 1961-1975
Education 1943-1979
Employment 1943-1948
Energy 1973-1979
Ethics 1962-1979
Family 1972-1979
Foreign aid 1968-1979
Foreign relations 1950
Foreign trade 1943-1974
Free enterprise 1943-1979
Freeman magazine 1951
Gold standard 1978-1979
Government ownership and regulation 1943-1979
Government spending 1976-1979
Great Britain 1940-1979
Health care and medicine 1941-1979
Housing 1946
Income statistics 1948-1976
Industrial Revolution 1968-1978
Inflation 1974
Investments 1976
John Birch Society 1961
Keynes, John Maynard 1976-1979
Law 1978-1979
Minimum wage laws 1948-1974
National Recovery Administration 1933-1934
News media 1976-1979
Office of Price Administration 1943-1945
Optimism 1978-1979
Planning 1942-1979
Politics 1936-1979
Politics 1936-1979
Pollution and environmentalism 1973-1979
Population and food 1974-1979
Price controls 1941-1979
Profits 1978-1979
Progress 1976
Psychology 1973-1979
Racism 1976-1979
Religion 1953-1979
Rising prices 1978-1979
Science 1971-1974
Segregation 1955-1975
Social security 1950-1979
Soviet Union 1946-1979
Taxes 1943-1979
Terrorism 1977-1979
Unemployment 1955-1979
Unions and labor relations 1940-1979
United Nations 1955-1979
Wages 1939-1979
Women's liberation 1973-1979
Speeches and Writings by Others 1927-1980
Adams, Claris 1943
Babson, David L. 1968
Bleiberg, Robert M. 1975
Borders, Irvin 1946
Byoir, Carl 1942
Carpenter, Wayne 1971
Carson, Clarence B. 1971
Carver, T. N. (Thomas Nixon) 1935-1950
Davenport, John A. 1975
Friedman, Milton and George J. Stigler 1946
"The Current Housing Problem: Ceilings or Roofs?," article drafts 1946
Fromm, Erich 1973
Harper, F. A. 1945
Greenwald, David 1966
Harper, Roland M. 1939
Hazlitt, Henry 1945-1948
Hoffman, Paul G. 1938-1943
Hoiles, R. C. 1947
Lage, Gerald M. 1973
McCracken, Paul W. 1980
Mowrer, O. Hobart 1961
Mullendore, William C. 1950-1951
North, Gary 1975
Petro, Sylvester 1964
Read, Leonard 1942
Rorty, M. C. 1933
Rose, Tom 1975
Summers, Brian 1974
Shafer, Ronald G. 1972
Szasz, Thomas S. 1961-1967
Terborgh, G. W. 1929
Tibbetts, Carleton B. 1942
Tugwell, Rexford G. 1927-1935
Graphic Materials 1922, 1938
Cartoons for Why Are We So Prosperous? 1938
Photographs depicting Dorothy Lowe 1922
Printed Matter 1929-1979
Monographs 1934-1976
Pamphlets 1929-1976
Pamphlets 1929-1976
Pamphlets 1929-1976
Serial issues 1942-1979