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A Century of Scottish Economics
Author(s) -
Cairncross Alec
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
scottish journal of political economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.4
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1467-9485
pISSN - 0036-9292
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9485.00093
Subject(s) - schools of economic thought , subject (documents) , kingdom , foundation (evidence) , philosophy and economics , applied economics , economic history , economics , sociology , social science , political science , positive economics , neoclassical economics , law , library science , paleontology , computer science , biology
A review of the development of economics, and of university teaching and research in economics since the foundation of the Scottish Economic Society a century ago. Contrasts the Victorian world of do‐it‐yourself economics with no economic journals or societies and university teaching in the hands of the professor of moral philosophy with the current situation with 12 Scottish universities in place of 4 and a staff of over 240 in Scotland compared with a total of 30 in the United Kingdom in 1890. Economists have multiplied, new branches of the discipline have developed, the subject has been revolutionised.