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 311 lished at the request of the Senior class, bearing the imprint “Princeton.” This led us to wonder whether he had not treated the subject during his first incumbency at Princeton. Through the kindness of Professor Collins, the secretary of Princeton Uni- versity, we have been able to ascertain that the title of Vethake’s chair at Princeton, between 1817 and 1821, was Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, but that he began to teach Political Economy to the Seniors in 1819. When he resigned, Political Economy was continued as a senior subject in the first term; and inasmuch as the senior class was taught by the President, Ashbel Green, the latter without any question taught the subject in 1822. In that year, however, Mr. Green resigned the presidency, and Political Economy is not again included in the curriculum until Vethake returned. It appears, therefore, that four years prior to the introduction of Political Economy at South Carolina, the subject was taught at Dickinson; and that three years prior to its introduction at Dickinson College, and one year before its certain introduc- tion at Harvard, it was taught at Princeton. It is probable, how- ever, that the instruction at Princeton was exceedingly ele- mentary, and that the more developed lectures of Vethake were not begun, as he himself tells us, until he took up the topic in 1822 at Dickinson. What happened to Vethake’s courses after he reached the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania is uncertain. According to the cata- logues of that University, it seems that Political Economy was not taught until the year 1855, when the subject was assigned to Dr. Vethake, as professor of Intellectual and Moral Phil- osophy. In addition to his lectures on Political Economy, Vet- hake at that time gave instruction in “Intellectual Philosophy, Ethics, the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, Logie, the Elements of Natural, International, and Constitutional Law, and History, in connection with Chronology and Political Geography.” In other words, it might be said that Vethake occupied not a chair, but a settee. It is difficult to believe, how- ever, that a scholar who was so much interested in Political Economy and who continued to write profusely on the subject, should not have turned the attention of his students to that topic. A new edition of his Political Economy was published in 1844; he wrote most of the articles in volume XIV of the

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