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

314 ECONOMIC ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN BATES CLARK : his character was such as to inspire respect and veneration and to endear him to all who knew him.” * He died in 1868. The reason that McVickar abandoned the teaching of Political Economy at the time was no doubt the fact that in that year there was created at Columbia a new chair of History and Political Science, to which the distinguished scholar Francis Lieber was called. Lieber continued to teach political economy in addition to his famous lectures on history, political philosophy, and comparative jurisprudence. When he died, in 1872, political sconomy was assigned for a few years to Professor Nairne, the accomplished Professor of Philosophy and English Literature. In 1876 Professor John W. Burgess was called to the new chair of History, Political Science and International Law, and a year or two later Richmond Mayo-Smith was called to Columbia and to him was transferred the teaching of political economy, a separate professorship for that purpose being created in 1881. In the other American colleges political economy was intro- duced at almost the same time. In 1825, the same year when Dr. Cooper began his lectures, the subject is found in both Yale and Rutgers. At Yale it appears as a part of the regular curriculum for seniors in 1825. Whether the subject was previously taught at Yale is uncertain. We know that President Timothy Dwight had charge of the course in Moral Philosophy before 1825, and we are told that he dealt with the “more important disputable points in Science, Politics, Morals, and Theology.” * As to how far Economics was included under the head of Politics is not quite clear. The probability that Mr. Dwight touched on economic topics is evident from the list of published questions that he discussed with the Senior class in Yale College in 1813 and 1814. Among the questions decided are the following: Dispute II-—Ought Foreign Immigration to be encouraged? Dispute IX—Ought the Poor to be supported by Law? Dispute XX—Is a Savage State preferable to a Civilized? t A History of Columbia University, 1754-1904. New York, 1904, p. 142. Further details of his life may be found in William A. McVickar, The Life of the Reverend John McVickar, New York, 1872. 2 Timothy Dwight’s Theology Explained and Defended, with a Memoir mn the Life of the Author, 7th ed. New York, 1830, 1-47.

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