LEADER 05219oam 2200709I 450 001 9910799915803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-136-65498-4 010 $a1-283-36366-6 010 $a9786613363664 010 $a0-203-80639-5 010 $a1-136-65499-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203806395 035 $a(CKB)2670000000130904 035 $a(EBL)735290 035 $a(OCoLC)768081392 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000551218 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12252337 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551218 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10526100 035 $a(PQKB)11359339 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC735290 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL735290 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10519609 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL336366 035 $a(OCoLC)774293515 035 $a(PPN)175056927 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000130904 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe economic reader $etextbooks, manuals and the dissemination of the economic sciences during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries /$fedited by Massimo M. Augello and Marco E. L. Guidi 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in the history of economics ;$v136 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-80768-0 311 $a0-415-55443-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aThe Economic Reader Textbooks, manuals and the dissemination of the economic sciences during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; 1 The making of an economic reader: The dissemination of economics through textbooks; 2 Economic manuals and textbooks in Great Britain and the British Empire 1797-1938; 3 Cours, Lec?ons, Manuels, Pre?cis and Traite?s: Teaching political economy in nineteenth-century France; 4 Economic textbooks in the German language area 327 $a5 Educating the nation: Textbooks and manuals of political economy in Italy 1815-19226 Teaching, spreading and preaching: Textbooks of political economy in Spain 1779-1936; 7 Textbooks and the teaching of political economy in Portugal 1759-1910; 8 'A powerful instrument of progress': Economic textbooks in Belgium 1830-1925; 9 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 327 $a11 The emergence of the economic science in Japan and the evolution of textbooks 1860s-1930s12 The evolution of US economics textbooks; Index of names; Index of subjects 330 $a"In the nineteenth century and still in the early decades of the twentieth century textbooks of economics were quite different from those over which thousands of undergrads sweat blood today to prepare their exams. They pedagogical tools, rich of moralistic overtones and of practical indications addressed to policy makers. They were made to persuade both students and the ordinary layman about the benefits of the market order. They also indicated the rules of behaviour that were considered consistent with the smooth functioning of economic mechanisms. The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson's Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book cover a large part of Europe, the British Commonwealth, the United States and Japan. Each chapter examines various types of textbooks, from those aimed at self-education to those addressed to university students, secondary school students, to the short manuals aimed at the popularisation of political economy among workers and the middle classes. An introductory chapter examines this phenomenon in a comparative and transnational perspective. This study on the archaeology of modern textbooks reveals the massive effort made by governments and academic authorities to construct and disseminate a system of economic representations and regulations that could be instrumental to establish and consolidate what Michel Foucault called a new type of governmentality, based on natural market laws and on Malthusian population mechanisms"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aRoutledge studies in the history of economics ;$v136. 606 $aEconomics$vTextbooks$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEconomics$vTextbooks$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aEconomics$xHistory 615 0$aEconomics$xHistory 676 $a330 686 $aBUS000000$aBUS023000$aBUS069000$2bisacsh 701 $aAugello$b Massimo M$0119750 701 $aGuidi$b Marco E. L$g(Marco Enrico Luigi),$f1958-$0171426 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910799915803321 996 $aThe economic reader$93877865 997 $aUNINA