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- Title
THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.
- Authors
Dunbar, Charles F.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the development of political economy as a field of academic study. The educational value of economic study has, in fact, but little to do with the actual content of the science. Even if it were, as has been said, a mere discussion of "lunar politics" or of social relations under the rings of Saturn, although it would lose in interest, it would still afford one of the best means of training the reasoning powers to deal with the questions of complex causes presented in such infinite variety by human life. In short, the value of political economy as a dialectic would remain, although it found no immediate application in the society. Probably every earnest teacher of the subject feels an interest in his work, then, and has in view the attainment of objects, entirely different in kind from the interest and the purposes which, to the non-professional observer, would seem to be most natural. It is the perception of the scope and importance of the questions with which political economy deals that turns the popular current so strongly towards it today.
- Subjects
ECONOMICS education; ECONOMICS teachers; EDUCATION; MODALITY (Theory of knowledge); POLITICAL science; SOCIAL sciences
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1891, Vol 5, Issue 4, p397
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1879356