"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...

1. The making of an economic reader : the dissemination of economics through textbooks / Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi -- 2. Economic manuals and textbooks in Great Britain and the British Empire 1797-1938 / Keith Tribe -- 3. Cours, Lecon, Manuels, Precis and Traites : teaching...

"In the seventeenth century, England saw Holland as an economic power to learn from and compete with. English Economic Thought in the Seventeenth Century: Rejecting the Dutch Model analyses English economic discourse during this period, and explores the ways in which England's economy was shaped...