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.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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

Collection:: Economics Books

ae 292 ECONOMIC ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN BATES CLARK here has also been preserved a statement of the content of this course in moral philosophy. Professor Gross divided it into three parts: the first dealing with the law of nature, strictly so-called; i. e., the principles and “laws resulting from the nature of man and his natural relations to God and to his fellow- creatures.” The second part treated of ethics and natural juris- prudence, the latter topic including the whole field of civil gov- ernment. The third part comprised the law of nations. It is more than probable that the second part included the general prin- ciples of wealth which were usually discussed at that time in Great Britain under the head of civil government. The next step was taken in 1792, when a committee of the trustees reported in favor of a new professorship to deal with natural history, chemistry, agriculture and the other arts depend- ng thereon. This report was accepted and in July, 1792, a pro- fessorship of Economics was established, the first incumbent of which was Samuel Latham Mitchill. This is a matter of such interest that it is worth describing in more detail. Dr. Mitchill was a remarkable man. Born at North Hempstead, Long Island, in 1764, he was the third son of a prosperous farmer of English descent, belonging to the Society of Friends. After completing a classical education he studied medicine under his uncle and later under the renowned Dr. Samuel Bard. He then proceeded, in 1783, to the University of Edinburgh, and there secured his degree of M. D. in 1786. On his return to the United States, he was elected, in 1790, to the State legislature and thereafter continued to take an active interest in politics, as well as in science. In 1797 he attended, at Philadelphia, as a delegate to the convention for the abolition of slavery; in 1798, he carried through the bill to enable Livingston to navigate the Hudson River by steamboat. He was a member of Congress between 1800 and 1813, in both the House and the Senate and was in great demand throughout the country for orations on economic and political topics, as well as on natural science. In 1795, e. g., he delivered and published an oration on The Life and Exploits of Tammany the famous Indian Chief. We are told that in 1814 he labored “jointly with his patriotic neigh- bors, with mattock and shovel, in the trenches, to erect fortifica- tions against the enemy.” LA History of Columbia Universit

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