TY  - BOOK
AU  - Augello,Massimo M.
AU  - Guidi,Marco E.L.
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - The economic reader: textbooks, manuals and the dissemination of the economic sciences during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 
T2  - Routledge studies in the history of economics
AV  - HB171.5 .E3315 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Economics
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=735290
ER  -