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

316 ECONOMIC ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN BATES CLARK tianity, and Political Economy, in 1833. When he retired in 1839, his place was taken by President A. Bruyn Hasbrouck, who was made Professor of Constitutional and International Law, Political Economy, Rhetoric, and Belles Lettres. In 1844 how- ever, the title was reduced to Professor of Constitutional Law; and the term Political Economy does not reappear until 1867, when Mr. J. P. Bradley was made Lecturer in Political Economy and Constitutional Law. In the interval, it is possible, although not certain, that the subject was taught by the Honorable Theo- dore Frelinghuysen, who was president and professor of inter- national and constitutional law and moral philosophy from 1850 to 1862. Finally, in 1869 George W. Atherton became “professor of history, political economy and constitutional law.” In the University of Virginia political economy was first taught in 1826, although its introduction had frequently been discussed earlier. Jefferson had always taken a warm interest in the sub- ject. When Dupont de Nemours sent Jefferson his project of a national university at Washington, the consummation of which was prevented by the political and fiscal troubles that culminated in the war with England, one of the four schools planned was that of Social Science and Legislation. When Jefferson, in 1817, worked out his ideas for the institution, soon to become the University of Virginia, he included in the course of instruction, at the suggestion of Cooper, the subject of political economy. Pro- vision was actually made for a chair of ideology, a term doubt- less borrowed from a work bearing that title by Count Destutt de Tracy, an old friend of Jefferson who had written as far back as 1798, at the latter’s request, the Commentaries on Montesquieu. The first part of the Eléments d’Idéologie appeared in 1804, reprinted in 1823 without change as a Traité d’Economie Politique. In 1817 there was published at Georgetown, D. C., A Treatise on Political Economy to which is prefixed a Supple- ment to a Preceding Work on the Understanding or Elements of Ideology, by Count Destutt Tracy, translated from the unpub- lished French original. In a prefatory letter, Jefferson states that he has carefully revised and corrected the translation. He recommends the work which “by diffusing sound principles of Political Economy will protect the public industry from the parasite institutions now consuming it”; and in the accompanying prospectus, probably written also by Jefferson, he gives the most

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