UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 30, 4 February 1905, Page 7

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

. THE ECONOMICS COURSES. i-hTV- . Bcon . oaii cs Committee leportect to cae university Senate yesterday "afternoon on the subject of. the definition of economics which is UO w an Independent subject. The following is the report as It | was nually adopted:— | ••That the deflnUl.m of economics in the j Bachelor of Arts degree be as follows:— p Economics (two papers): (a) The general ; economies of the production. Fonsnmotion, : distribution and exchange of wealth."; the i law of papulation; emigration and Immi- ' gration; problems of industiial organisation; strikes; trade unions; monopolies and ; combinations; proposed remedies for low wages; over production: land tenure; : socialist theories.; State and municipal ' socialism; land nationalisation; land ratin™ and taxation. (It) The ra-ore fundamental j treatment of: Money: credit; inteiest; j banking: frn"t!r>n.s: inter-r.nuanal trade: ! I'orrtsrii p:n:haiii!;e: balanc- of trade; eco:.rvrr>: ■ f-i nations of government: free trade ' ii'l prcteetloa: preferential trade: State j i ffT'yatiou o£ labour and labour disputes: ' I uljlie finance, including the principle of j taxation." The • 'preferential trade" term ! ■: •••« introduced by Mr Banme, and after I :■. little discussion included. The second recommendation of the Committee. "That the definition of economies ! for hoinmrs in arts be as follows:— : Economics ithree papers); The subject of treated more fully than for the Dejrree of Bachelor of Arts, with special reference to the following: Methods nt economical investigation, and the use of statistics: history of economics; theories of social progress: history of economic chanses in relation to their causes." was postponed until the next session of the I Senate. __ _ DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY. The . Economics Committee also recomr'.ended, "That application be made to the t'arliampnt of New Zealand for power to confer the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. .-.nd th.it an extension of charter in this direction he applied for at the same time as application is made for its extension to f'ver the degree, power to confer which has recently been granted, and that when this power has been obtained economics should be one of the subjects for this decree.' , There was a little discussion upon this matter, but the Senate hy a majority agreed to endorse the recommend; 1 t.-on. Ir <vas stated that the degree, which had been rather in disrepute for some ye.-irs pass, had been lehaftilitatrd un oubllc u^t- eem recently, and su'-h universities as Kdinburgh had' of late years granted the (ie<rrees with increasing frequency. It was stated to be a degree that would be very r-efnl iv this university, and there were already a number who were quaiilied to sit for it.