Retrospectives: Trouble in the Inaugural Issue of the American Economic Review: The Cross/Eaves Controversy

The papers from the first year of the American Economic Review are included in the Archives of the American Economic Association. While researching the early years of the AEA, Ann Mari May came across a folder marked "Controversies, Criticisms, etc."-which stood out in the midst of a review of AEA minutes and reports. This folder included a bulky file on what AER Editor Davis Rich Dewey would come to refer to as the "Cross/Eaves Controversy"-a controversy that, according to a letter he wrote, would give him "no end of trouble." The trouble erupted with a book review that appeared in the first issue of the American Economic Review. The review, written by Ira Cross, addressed a book by Lucile Eaves entitled A History of California Labor Legislation. The controversy that ensued illustrates the eternally fascinating interaction of the reviewer and the reviewed and casts a revealing light on the era's standards and rituals of scholarly conduct, on the drawing of disciplinary boundaries as economics became a more distinct academic discipline, and on the differing treatment of men and women in the academic life of the time.

Training for store service; the vocational experiences and training of juvenile employees of retail department, dry goods and clothing stores in Boston; report of investigations made in the Research department of the Women's educational and industrial union, Lucile Eaves, directory.

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Old-age support of women teachers, provisions for old age made by women teachers in the public schools of Massachusetts ; a study by the Department of research of the Women's educational and industrial union, Lucile Eaves, PH.D., director.

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The food of working women in Boston:

Issued also as vol. x, Studies in economic relations of women.At head of title: The commonwealth of Massachusetts. State department of health.Bibliography: p. 199-202.Mode of access: Internet