John P. Tiemstra Collection, 1970-2011 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

By Ed Gerritsen, 2011, 2012

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Collection Overview

Abstract

Biographical Note

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Correspondence --- 1970-2011

Box 1

Folder 1-9: Correspondence --- 1970-2011

Series 2: Writings --- 1972-2010

Box 2

Folder 1: Paper, "Some Thoughts on the Condition of the Performing Arts" --- 1972

Folder 2: Paper, "Property Relations in the Old Testament," presented at AACS-ICS Conference --- 1974

Folder 3: Paper, Peter J. Tiemstra and John P. Tiemstra, "Moisture Transmission through Peanut Oil Film," [Peanut Science:, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 47-50.1974] --- July 1974

Folder 4: Manuscript, Market Protest, Chapter I and II --- 1974

Folder 5: Thesis, Protest through Market Action, Massachusetts Institute of Technology --- 1975

Folder 6: Paper, "Energy and Christian Stewardship: An Economist's Contribution" --- 1976

Folder 7: Paper, "Christian Stewardship and Economic Behavior" --- 1976

Folder 8: Paper, "On The Banner's Economics" --- 26 July 1976

Folder 9: Paper, "The Affluent Society Revisited" --- 1977

Folder 10: Book review, "Review of Tom Rose, Economics: Principles and Policy from a Christian Perspective, Milford, MI: Mott Media, 1977," undated; and materials re: review of Tom Rose's book in Christian Educators Journal 28-29 --- (Sept/Oct 1977)

Folder 11

Item 1: Report: “Redlining Project: Progress Report and Timetable" --- 1977

Item 2: Article: “Whatever Happened to Redlining?” The Grand Rapids Press --- 7 Dec 1980

Folder 12: Paper review, "Comment on Dr. Kee's Paper;" includes paper and members list of The Social Science Seminar held at Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, 3-11 --- Aug 1978

Folder 13: Papers:

Item 1: "The Bible and Economics in Christian Schools" --- 1978

Item 2: "A Tale of Two Editions" --- 1979

Folder 14: Paper, "You Will Always Have the Poor Among You" --- [1979]

Folder 15

Item 1: Paper: "Energy Policy from the Ground Up" --- 1980

Item 2: Article: The Reformed Journal: “Energy Policy from the Ground Up", 6-9 --- Oct 1980

Folder 16: Calvin College Social Research Center study paper, "Home Financing and House Prices" --- 1981

Folder 17: Paper, "Economic Causes of Soil Erosion in the U.S." --- [1981]

Folder 18

Item 1: Paper: "Professional Friends" --- [1983?]

Item 2: Article: The Reformed Journal: "Professional Friends", 11-15 --- Oct 1983

Folder 19: Paper, "Moral Foundations of Community," 1983, by P.L. Danner and reply by J.P.T. --- [1984]

Folder 20: Book reviews:

Item 1: "Review of The Causes of World Hunger, William Byron, ed., New York: Paulist Press, 1982, 256 pp., $8.95" --- [1984]

Item 2: "Review of Clouse, ed., Wealth & Poverty" --- [1985]

Folder 21: Paper, "Perspectives on Consumer Rights," presented at World Congress of Social Economics --- 1986

Folder 22: Articles:

Item 1: The Reformed Journal: "Reformed Taxes," 8-9 --- Dec 1986

Item 2: "A Loftier View," 4 --- June 1988

Item 3: "Schools, Hospitals, and the Poor," 3-4 --- Nov 1989

Folder 23: Book: W. Fred Graham, George N. Monsma, Jr.,  Carl J. Sinke, Alan Storkey, and John P. Tiemstra, with contributions by Daniel M. Ebels, Reforming Economics: A Christian Perspective on Economic Theory and Practice, Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, (Grand Rapids, MI, Calvin College) --- 1986

Box 3

Folder 1: Paper, "Values in Theory of Economic Regulation" --- 1987

Folder 2: Book review, "Poverty and Wealth: The Christian Debate Over Capitalism, by Ronald H. Nash. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1986" --- [1987]

Folder 3: Paper and book review, "Losing Ground by Charles Murray (New York: Basic Books, 1984, 323 pp., $23.95)," undated; and review of Losing Ground, by Charles Murray (Basic Books, 1984). TSF Bulletin 35 --- Jan-Feb 1987

Folder 4: Paper and article, "Stories Economists Tell," undated, and The Reformed Journal: "Stories Economists Tell,", 14-16 --- Feb 1988

Folder 5: Book review by Arnold McKee, "Reformed Economics (Toronto Studies in Theology, vol 38), ed. John Tiemstra, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, N.Y., 1990, pp. 323, index" --- 1990

Folder 6: Paper, "Varieties of Institutional Economics: The Theory of the Firm" --- [1991]

Folder 7: Paper, "Equality and Efficiency: the Big Trade Off or a Free Lunch?" --- [1992]

Folder 8

Item 1: Rights and Regulations: Theories of Regulation and the History of Consumerism --- [1992?]

Item 2: Rights and Regulations --- undated

Folder 9: Articles:

Item 1: Perspectives: "The Best Person for the Job" --- Feb 1992

Item 2: "The New South Africa: Already but Not Yet," 4 --- Nov 1992

Item 3: "Science, Information, and Values," 3-4 --- Aug/Sept

Folder 10

Item 1: Paper: "Christianity and Economics: A Review of Recent Literature" --- [1993]

Item 2: Manuscript: "Christianity and Economics: A Review of Recent Literature" --- undated

Folder 11: Book review, "Paradox and Policy: A Review Article on Robert L. Stivers, ed., Reformed Faith and Economics" --- [1993]

Folder 12: Paper, "Competitiveness and Industrial Policy" --- [1994]

Folder 13: Paper, "What Should Christian Economists Do? Doing Economics, But Differently" --- [1994]

Folder 14: Paper, "Why do Economists Disagree?" --- [1998]

Folder 15: Papers:

Item 1: "Social Values and the Regulation of Business" --- [1998]

Item 2: "A New Approach to the General Education Economics Course" --- [2000]

Folder 16: Paper, "Every Square Inch: Kuyperian Social Theory and Economics" --- [1999]

Folder 17: Papers:

Item 1: "Environmental Policy for Business and Government," presented at an International Interdisciplinary Conference, Calvin College --- 2001 and 2003

Item 2: "Christian Scholarship for Economic Policy" --- 2001

Folder 18: Paper, "Wasting Time and Wasting the Earth" --- [2002]

Folder 19: Article, Freeman Magazine: "Do You Pay Too Much in Taxes?", 1-2 --- 23 Apr 2002

Folder 20

Item 1: Paper and article, "Learning from the Enron Debacle" --- 2002

Item 2: Freeman Magazine: "The Scary Thing about Enron," 1-2 --- 22 Aug 2002

Folder 21: Paper, "Clash of Civilizations and the Rules of the Global Economy" --- [2003]

Folder 22: Paper, "Globalization, Ethics, and the Earth" --- 2004

Folder 23: Book review, "Poverty,Government, and the Meaning of Economics: A Discussion of Wealth, Poverty, and Human Destiny, Bandow and Schindler, editors" --- [2004]

Folder 24: Paper, "Creation Values and the Environment" --- [2005]

Folder 25: Paper, "Financial Globalization and Crony Capitalism" --- 2005

Folder 26: Paper, "The Case Against Financial Globalization," presented at Twelfth World Congress of Social Economics --- [2007]

Folder 27: Paper, "Christian Values and the Case against Financial Globalization" --- [2007]

Folder 28: Article, Forum for Social Economics: "The Social Economics of Globalization," Fall, v. 36, 143-159 --- 2007

Folder 29: Paper, "Rethinking the Costs of Economic Growth: Association for Social Economics Presidential Address" --- 2008

Folder 30: Paper, "Notes from the Revolution: Principles of a New Economics," presented at Baylor University --- 2009

Folder 31: Paper, "Financial Crisis and the Culture of Risk" --- [2009]

Folder 32: Paper, "Theologians and Economics in Dialogue" --- [2010]

Box 4

Folder 1: Paper, "What are the Economists Arguing About?" --- undated

Folder 2: Paper, "Globalization and Environmental Regulations" --- undated

Folder 3: Paper, "A Theory of Consumer Boycotts" --- undated

Folder 4: Paper, "The Two Crises of the Graduate Student" --- undated

Folder 5: Papers:

Item 1: "Behavioral Interpretation of Welfare Propositions" --- undated

Item 2: "The Uses and Abuses of Mathematical Economics" --- undated

Folder 6: Paper, "The Bohr-MacKay Complementarity Principle in Economics" --- undated

Folder 7: Paper, "Ronald Reagan, Regulatory Reform, and Relief" --- undated

Folder 8: Paper, "The Myth of the Scientific University" --- undated

Folder 9

Item 1: Paper: "Bach and the Parish Organist" --- undated

Item 2: Book review: "Bach Among the Theologians by Jaroslav Pelikan, Fortress Press, 1986. 158 pp. $?" --- undated

Folder 10: Book reviews:

Item 1: "The Deindustrialization of America by Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison (Basic Books, 1983, 323 pp., $19.95)" --- [1983]

Item 2: "The U.S. Steel Industry in Recurrent Crisis by Robert W. Crandall (Brookings Institution, 1981, 184 pp., $?)" --- undated

Folder 11: Book review, "The Great Depression of 1990 by Ravi Batra. Simon and Schuster. 1987. 235 pp. $117.95" --- undated

Folder 12: Book reviews:

Item 1: "Review of 'Economics and the Parable of Jesus" --- undated

Item 2: "Review of proposal for Economic Justice in the Shadow of the Cross" --- undated

Folder 13: Book review, "Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy, Daniel M. Hausman and Michael S. McPherson, Cambridge (UK) and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996" --- [1997]

Folder 14: Book review, "Comments on 'Ethics and the Protection of Nature: Religion, Science, and Economics,' by Cornelis van Kooten" --- undated

Series 3: Academic materials --- 1968-2009

Box 4

Folder 15: Curriculum Vitae --- [1983?]

Folder 16: Papers written for history courses at Oberlin College --- 1968-1972

Folder 17: Papers written for philosophy courses at Oberlin College --- 1969-1971

Folder 18: Papers written for studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology --- 1971-1973

Folder 19: Materials and notes, Businesses' Role and Responsibility in Modern Society conference at Catholic University, Washington, DC --- Jun 1976

Folder 20: Reports:

Item 1: "Economics and Business Department Facilities Committee Report" --- [1982]

Item 2: "Rationale and Objectives for the Analytical Economics Component of the Business Major Program" --- 1982

Item 3: Proposal response, i.e., Response to the PAP Proposal, Personnel Committee --- undated

Folder 21: List, "Activities in Teaching, Scholarship, and Service, 1975-1983" --- [1983]

Folder 22: Reports, Self-evaluations --- 1983-1984

Folder 23: Examinations, Economics 334 --- 1983-2009

Folder 24: Course booklet, "Readings for Economics W 10" --- 1995

Folder 25: Course booklet, Economics: A Developmental Approach --- 1996

Folder 26: Sabbatical applications --- 1989, 1997

Folder 27: Committee minutes, Environmental Stewardship Committee --- 2002-2005

Folder 28: Sabbatical report --- 2006