The economic reader [electronic resource] : textbooks, manuals and the dissemination of the economic sciences during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / edited by Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi.
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TextSeries: Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 136.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2012Description: xxii, 356 p. : illISBN: 9781136654992 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Economics -- Textbooks -- History -- 19th century | Economics -- Textbooks -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: HB171.5 | .E3315 2012Online resources: Click to View 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 economy among workers and the middle classes. An introductory chapter examines this phenomenon in a comparative and transnational perspective"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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