Economic essays

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Identifikator:: 1753623200

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Title:: Economic essays

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Macmillan

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: viii, 368 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

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Title:: The early teaching of economics in the United States / Edwin R.A. Seligman

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288 ECONOMIC ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN BATES CLARK who had begun lecturing on the subject in 1825 in London, was appointed Professor of Political Economy at University College, ondon, in 1828. n France the instruction in Political Economy came a little ater than in England. Jean Baptiste Say began in 1817 to give so-called cours libre in an institution known as 1’Athénée, which organized a series of such public lectures in Paris. In 819 it was proposed to create a chair of Political Economy at the Law School in Paris and an ordinance to this effect was in fact issued. But before it could be carried out, the ministry el and the next minister of public instruction withheld his con- sent because he considered Political Economy a dangerous opic which would probably implicate the incumbent in politics. n 1821, when representations were made to the government hat France was the only great country in which there was no instruction in the subject, it was decided to create a professor- ship for Say at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers. In order, however, not to incur the risk of another defeat, the chair was alled one of Industrial Economy. Moreover, the Conservatoire as attended by what we should call to-day extension students ho came only in the evening. t was not until after the Revolution of 1830 that the new overnment decided to create a chair of Political Economy in the College de France, and nominated as the first incumbent, M. ay. When Say died in 1832, he was succeeded by Rossi, and wi by Michel Chevalier and Paul Leroy Beaulieu. This remained the only chair of Political Economy until the creation in 1864 of a similar chair in the Law School at Paris.? 2. The Eighteenth Century In the American colonies the earliest literature on economic topics concerned itself, as is well known, with currency, taxation and agriculture.” The formal teaching of economics began at a considerably later date. Attention was first directed to the subject by two of the three leading thinkers in the American colonies, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Johnson. Of these, ! The above details are found in part in de Puynode Etudes sur les principaux économistes, 1868, pp. 354-359; supplemented by information kindly given to us by Professors Gide and Rist. 2 Cf. Seligman, op. cit., ch. iv.

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