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

THE EARLY TEACHING OF ECONOMICS IN THE UNITED STATES 287 adopted and Pryme thus became the first professor of Political Economy at Cambridge. Many years later, namely in 1861, he endeavored to have the chair endowed. He was told, however, that there was no chair of Political Economy, the title only having been conferred upon him personally in 1828." Pryme resigned in 1863; whereupon much to his surprise the syndics resolved to inaugurate a perma- nent chair of Political Economy, with the generous salary of £200 a year. The problem as to Oxford is a little more perplexing. We know that in 1825 a professorship was endowed at the Uni- versity by Mr. Drummond. There is in our library a work entitled An Introductory Lecture on Political Economy delivered hefore the University of Oxford on the 6th of December, 1826, by Nassau William Senior, of Magdalen College, Oxford, A. M., London, 1827. We find on the dedicatory page the inscription: “To the Munificent and Enlightened Founder of this Professor- ship who occasioned its Delivery, this Lecture is respectfully and gratefully inscribed by the author.” We know, however, that Senior was a student of Whately and that the latter was a tutor at Oriel College from 1818 on.’ Whether Whately delivered lectures or simply gave instruction is uncertain, but it is entirely probable that in connection with his teaching of Logic, he also touched on economic topics.® While, therefore, there were no titular professorships of Political Economy at either Oxford or Cambridge, the subjects were actually being taught in those institutions and the instruc- tors, Messrs. Pryme and Whately, were with reason elected mem- bers of the new Political Economy Club. Senior was succeeded in the professorship in 1829 by Whately, and when the latter was promoted to the Archbishopric of Dublin, he signalized his appointment by founding a Professorship of Political Economy at Dublin University. The first incumbent of this chair was Mountifort Longfield, in 1832, who was fol- lowed by Isaac Butt, in 1837.° In the meantime, McCulloch, * Op. cit., ch. xxiv, p. 344. * Cf. Life and Correspondence of Richard Whately, D.D., Late Arch- bishop of Dublin, by Jane Whately, London, 1866. * This appears from the passage on page 37 of Senior's introductory lec- ture quoted above. * Not Whately himself, as Wills says. > Cf. Seligman, Essays in Economics, 1925, pp. 111-118.

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