| Description |
1 online resource (385 pages) |
| Contents |
The Economic Reader; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Foreword; 1 The making of an economic reader; 2 Economic manuals and textbooks in Great Britain and the British Empire 1797-1938; 3 Cours, Leçons, Manuels, Précis and Traités; 4 Economic textbooks in the German language area; 5 Educating the nation: textbooks and manuals of political economy in Italy 1815-1922; 6 Teaching, spreading and preaching: textbooks of political economy in Spain 1779-1936; 7 Textbooks and the teaching of political economy in Portugal 1759-1910 |
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8 'A powerful instrument of progress': Economic textbooks in Belgium 1830-19259 From ruminators to pioneers: Dutch economics textbooks and their authors in the nineteenth and early twentieth century; 10 Political economy textbooks and manuals and the roots of the Scandinavian model; 11 The emergence of the economic science in Japan and the evolution of textbooks 1860s-1930s; 12 The evolution of US economics textbooks; Index of names; Index of subjects |
| Summary |
The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson's Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book cover a large part of Europe, the British Commonwealth, the United States and Japan. Each chapter examines various types of textbooks, from those aimed at self-education to those addressed to university students, secondary school students, to the short manuals aimed at the popularisation of political eco |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economics -- Textbooks -- History -- 19th century
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Economics -- Textbooks -- History -- 20th century
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Economics
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Guidi, Marco E. L
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| ISBN |
9781136654992 |
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1136654992 |
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9780203806395 |
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0203806395 |
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