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

'HE FARLY TEACHING OF ECONOMICS IN THE UNITED STATES 303 President Adams and was convicted under the Alien and Sedition laws, as a result of which he became a popular hero.” In 1813 he turned his attention anew to economic topics, (hav- ing first written on the subject in 1799 in his Political Essays) and became the editor of the Emporium of Arts and Sciences, the object of which was to stimulate the American manufactures dur- ing the war. He became a warm friend of Jefferson, who asked his advice in 1814 as to the proposed curriculum of the nascent University of Virginia. It was Cooper who recommended the inclusion of the study of political economy—a suggestion accepted by Jefferson.” When the time came to fill the professorships at the University, Jefferson procured his appointment in 1819 as professor of “chemistry, mineralogy and natural philosophy,” with a temporary incumbency also of the chair of law. Cooper had in the meantime been professor of chemistry at Dickinson College and, since 1816, professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Pennsylvania. On account of the attacks made upon his alleged unorthodox religious opinions, he was compelled to resign from the University of Virginia, but was at once elected to a professorship of chem- istry in the College of South Carolina at Columbia, S. C. In the following year he became president. In 1823 he wrote Two Tracts on the Proposed Alteration of the Tariff, which com- manded widespread attention as a powerful argument against the protective tariff. As a result of his interest in these topics, when the trustees desired him in 1823 to teach metaphysics, he remonstrated and suggested the substitution of political economy. Although the Board agreed, he was unable to assume these duties until 1825, when he was relieved of the subjects of rhetoric and belles lettres.? Cooper's Elements of Political Economy, of which a second edition was published in 1830, although the title page bears the date 1829 (compare the reference on page 349 to “The Report last year, 1829”), was reprinted in London in 1831. It is a portly volume of 366 pages which, in the words of the author, refrains from entering upon the metaphysics of political economy and Nei Win Des of Dr. Cooper,” The South Atlantic Quarterly, * Dumas Malone, The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839. New Haven, 1926. * Malone, op. cit., p. 303.

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