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The Spread of Political Economy and the Professionalisation of Economists: Economic Societies in Europe, America and Japan in the Nineteenth Century
This book expertly presents the first systematic research and comparative analysis ever attempted on the rise and early developments of the Economic Associations founded in Europe, the US and Japan during the nineteenth century. Contributors analyze the activities and debates promoted by these associations, evaluating their role in:

  • the dissemination of political economy.
  • the institutionalisation of economics.
  • the construction of professional self-consciousness among economists.

Individual chapters reconstruct the events that led to the foundation of economic societies in Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Japan and the US.

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The Spread of Political Economy and the Professionalisation of Economists: Economic Societies in Europe, America and Japan in the Nineteenth Century
This book expertly presents the first systematic research and comparative analysis ever attempted on the rise and early developments of the Economic Associations founded in Europe, the US and Japan during the nineteenth century. Contributors analyze the activities and debates promoted by these associations, evaluating their role in:

  • the dissemination of political economy.
  • the institutionalisation of economics.
  • the construction of professional self-consciousness among economists.

Individual chapters reconstruct the events that led to the foundation of economic societies in Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Japan and the US.

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

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

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

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

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This book expertly presents the first systematic research and comparative analysis ever attempted on the rise and early developments of the Economic Associations founded in Europe, the US and Japan during the nineteenth century. Contributors analyze the activities and debates promoted by these associations, evaluating their role in:

  • the dissemination of political economy.
  • the institutionalisation of economics.
  • the construction of professional self-consciousness among economists.

Individual chapters reconstruct the events that led to the foundation of economic societies in Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Japan and the US.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415868174
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/25/2013
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Massimo Augello, Marco Guidi

Table of Contents

1. Nineteenth-Century Economic Societies in a Comparative Approach: The Emergence of Professional Economists 2. Economic Societies in Great Britain and Ireland 3. The Société d'Economie Politique of Paris (1842-1914) 4. The Associations of Economists and the Dissemination of Political Economy in Italy 5. Economic Associations in Belgium 6. Spanish Societies, Academies and Economic Debating Societies 7. From Learned Societies to Professional Associations. The Establishment of the Economist Profession in Portugal 8. Patriots, the Poor and Economic Progress. Economic Societies in The Netherlands 9. The Verein für Sozialpolitik from its Foundation (1872) until the First World War 10. The Swedish Economic Association from its Foundation (1877) to the Turn of the Century 11. Orchestrating Economic Ideas: The Formation and Development of Economic Societies in modern Japan 12. Economists and Professional Organizations in Pre-World War I America
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