Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: David Colander
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Author-Workplace-Name: Middlebury College - Department of Economics
Title: What We Taught and What We Did: The Evolution of U.S. Economic Textbooks (1830-1930)
Abstract: This paper asks the question: Was there a difference between what economists taught and what they
did in the mid 1800s and early 1900s, or is the divergence a recent phenomenon? It discusses three topselling texts: 
Francis Wayland’s The Elements of Political Economy, Francis Walker’s Political Economy,
and Edwin Seligman’s Principles of Economics, and concludes that in the period i830-i930 there was
a much closer connection between what economists did and what they teach than there has been in
more recent time.
Classification-JEL: A20, B10
Keywords: Economic textbooks; political economy; pedagogy
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 27-35
Volume: 14
Issue: 1
Year: 2006
File-URL: https://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=200606301&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:14:y:2006:1:3:p:27-35