The Spread of Political Economy and the Professionalisation of Economists: Economic Societies in Europe, America and Japan in the Nineteenth Century

by Augello; Massimo M.

• ISBN13: 9780415236690
• ISBN10: 041523669X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book presents the first systematic research and comparative analysis ever attempted on the rise and early developments of the Economic Associations founded in Europe, the USA and Japan during the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
Preface	xii
Nineteenth-Century economic societies in a comparative approach: the emergence of professional economists	1	(31)
Massimo M. Augello
Marco E. L. Guidi
Economic societies in Great Britain and Ireland	32	(21)
Keith Tribe
The Societe d'Economie Politique of Paris (1842-1914)	53	(17)
Yves Breton
The associations of economists and the dissemination of political economy in Italy	70	(21)
Massimo M. Augello
Marco E. L. Guidi
Economic associations in Belgium	91	(18)
Guido Erreygers
Spanish societies, academies and economic debating societies	109	(17)
Salvador Almenar
Vicent Llombart
From learned societies to professional associations: the establishment of the economist profession in Portugal	126	(12)
Antonio Almodovar
Jose Luis Cardoso
Patriots, the poor and economic progress: economic societies in the Netherlands	138	(14)
Evert Schoorl
The Verein fur Sozialpolitik from its foundation (1872) until World War I	152	(24)
Harald Hagemann
The Swedish Economic Association from its foundation (1877) to the turn of the century	176	(24)
Rolf G. H. Henriksson
Orchestrating economic ideas: the formation and development of economic societies in modern Japan	200	(16)
Jiro Kumagai
Economists and professional organisations in pre-World War I America	216	(17)
William J. Barber
Index	233