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Economics in American Engineering Schools

 

作者: Edwin J. Holstein,   William kent,  

 

期刊: The Engineering Economist  (Taylor Available online 1960)
卷期: Volume 5, issue 3  

页码: 28-41

 

ISSN:0013-791X

 

年代: 1960

 

DOI:10.1080/001379X6008546903

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

History records that political economy received at least perfunctory attention in what were then engineering schools, over one hundred and thirty years ago. In 1827, Valentine B. Horton, who was later to become a Whig congressman and to make and lose a fortune, became “a professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy” at the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, the forerunner of Norwich University.1During the 1840s and ′50s, many engineering schools included a few lectures in moral philosophy and political economy in their programs. More formal and more enthusiastic promotion of economics on engineering campuses was evident under the aegis of Francis Amasa Walker, a noted economist and statistician, who, after service at the Sheffield School at Yale, became president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early l88Os. Under his guidance, and that of Davis R. Dewey, who became an assistant professor of Economics and Statistics at M.I.T. in 1888, economics began to flourish on at least one engineering campus.

 

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