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

THE EARLY TEACHING OF ECONOMICS IN THE UNITED STATES 309 later that an independent chair of Political Economy was estab- lished. While the teaching of Political Economy at Bowdoin preceded that of Dr. Cooper at South Carolina, the same fact can be shown in several other institutions in the North. In two of these, namely Princeton and Dickinson, the instruc- tion was due to the same man. Henry Vethake, born in British Guiana in 1792, graduated from Columbia College in 1808 and had a checkered professorial career. He taught Mathematics at Columbia in 1812, when Dr. Kemp died. In 1813 he went to Queens College, now Rutgers, and was transferred to Princeton College in 1817, where he remained until 1821. On his resignation from Princeton, he went to Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1829. He thereupon returned to Princeton, but three years later became a professor in the new University of the City of New York, where he remained from 1832 to 1835. In that year he accepted the presidency of Washington College at Lexington, Virginia. Finally, in 1836, he was called to the chair of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1846 he was made vice-provost at Pennsylvania and in 1854, provost, and shortly thereafter resigned the chair of Mathematics and became professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. Although devoting himself primarily to mathematics, Mr. Vethake soon turned his attention to political economy. When he came to New York he published in 1833 An Introductory Lecture on Political Economy delivered at Clinton Hall before the New York Young Men’s Society, December 22, 1832, which is referred to by the corresponding secretary of the Society as an eloquent and profound address. A few years later, in 1838, he published a large volume on The Principles of Political Economy. In the preface to this work we find the statement that “the theories are now presented in the same form as that in which they have been delivered in the author’s courses of Political Economy, beginning so long since as the year 1822.” Knowing that he was at the time professor at Dickinson Col- lege, the present writer addressed the authorities of that college ni the hope of ascertaining some details on the subject. President J. H. Morgan was good enough to respond as follows:

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