Economic essays

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Identifikator:: 1753623200

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-136107

Document type:: Monograph

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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Collection:: Economics Books

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

Collection:: Economics Books

308 ECONOMIC ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN BATES CLARK is still extant in the library of the college. We have seen above (p. 300) that political economy was a part of the curriculum in 1815. Furthermore, the statutes of 1817 include in the curriculum “Politics and Political Oeconomy,” and refer to the Wealth of Nations as a text. Smith was succeeded in 1827 by Thomas R. Dew, who was appointed professor of political law and retained the chair until 1846. It is therefore beyond question that economics was taught continuously at William and Mary during the entire first half of the century, although, until 1826 at least, only as a subject in a more comprehensive course of moral philosophy and natural law. : If we return to the North, we find that in the year before Dr. Cooper actually began his instruction, the subject was taught at Bowdoin College. As President Sills of Bowdoin was good enough to write us, as the result of an investigation made by the librarian, Samuel Philip Newman, a graduate of Harvard of the class of 1816, was made Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Bowdoin College in 1824, and there was included in his depart- ment “the rising science of political economy.” He was, accord- ingly, also made Lecturer on Civil Polity and Political Economy. This is the first appearance of the term in any college course in New England. Moreover, this juxtaposition of titles seems to indicate that Civil Polity, as then understood, was something different from Political Economy. If this is true, it strengthens sur conclusion that the Alford professor at Harvard mentioned above, included political economy under the head of moral philosophy rather than of civil polity. Newman gave one lec- ture every fortnight on the subject from 1824 to 1827. From 1827 on, it became a regular senior study and an hour was assigned to it daily. The substance of Newman's lectures was published in 1835 under the title of The Elements of Political Economy, in which he describes himself as “Lecturer in Political Economy.” Newman left Bowdoin in 1839; and while the title of his chair was carried in the catalogue for some years, it seems that no instruction was thereafter given in the subject. It was not until the seventies that it was reintroduced as a part of the instruction in History and Civics; and it was not until much 11. G. Tyler, “The College of William and Mary: Its History and its ork ” Bulletin of the College of William and Mary, x, no. 4, 1917, p. 8.

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