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The Economic Reader : Textbooks, Manuals and the Dissemination of the Economic Sciences during the 19th and Early 20th Centuries.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Augello, Massimo M.
Otros Autores: Guidi, Marco E. L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 eco.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (385 pages)
ISBN:9781136654992
1136654992
9780203806395
0203806395