This book expertly presents the first systematic research and comparative analysis ever attempted on the rise and early developments of the Economic Associations founded in Europe, the US and Japan during the nineteenth century. Contributors analyze the activities and debates promoted by these associations, evaluating their role in:

• the dissemination of political economy.
• the institutionalisation of economics.
• the construction of professional self-consciousness among economists.

Individual chapters reconstruct the events that led to the...

by Frederic M. Scherer (J. F. Kennedy School of Government. Harvard University) In the year 1883, two of the world's most productive economists were born. Commemorating the event a century later, the U. S. business magazine Forbes asked which of the two, J ohn Maynard Keynes or J oseph Alois Schumpeter, made the greater, more endur ing contributions. No doubt to the great surprise of its readers, it concluded that Schumpeter was the greatest eeonomist of the 20th eentury. ' In this volume professor Massimo M. Augello has done yeoman service by assembling a eomprehensive bibliography of works...

Proposing a comparative study of the history of manuals of political economy in the 19th and early 20th centuries, this book demonstrates the 'professionalisation' of economics.