Political economy and its public contenders 1820-1850
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Political economy and its public contenders 1820-1850. / Jacobsen, Stefan Gaarsmand; Johansen, Thomas Palmelund.
History of Economic Rationalities: Economic Reasoning as Knowledge and Practice Authority. ed. / Jakob Bek-Thomsen; Christian Olaf Christiansen; Stefan Gaardsmand Jacobsen; Mikkel Thorup. Cham : Springer, 2017. p. 81-93.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Political economy and its public contenders 1820-1850
AU - Jacobsen, Stefan Gaarsmand
AU - Johansen, Thomas Palmelund
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In the early nineteenth century it was not at all evident what kind of a science, if at all, political economy was supposed to be. Writers of the discipline attempted to establish themselves as members of a scientific field, while being attacked by socialist and working-class opponents for being capitalist interest disguised as science. Drawing on material from the working-class periodical literature and private correspondences of the political economists in Britain and France, this chapter explores the struggle over the scientific status of the political economists in the 1820s to 1840s. By comparing the debates across the Channel the chapter shows both the national differences and the border-crossing inspirations for the political economists and the socialist movements alike. The chapter argues that the struggle over the status of political economy in this period needs to be understood as a struggle between competing economic rationalities. This struggle was instrumental in the lasting theoretical cooperation between French and British liberal economic thinkers, who aimed at placing the principles of unhindered trade at the basis of any acceptable economic policy.
AB - In the early nineteenth century it was not at all evident what kind of a science, if at all, political economy was supposed to be. Writers of the discipline attempted to establish themselves as members of a scientific field, while being attacked by socialist and working-class opponents for being capitalist interest disguised as science. Drawing on material from the working-class periodical literature and private correspondences of the political economists in Britain and France, this chapter explores the struggle over the scientific status of the political economists in the 1820s to 1840s. By comparing the debates across the Channel the chapter shows both the national differences and the border-crossing inspirations for the political economists and the socialist movements alike. The chapter argues that the struggle over the status of political economy in this period needs to be understood as a struggle between competing economic rationalities. This struggle was instrumental in the lasting theoretical cooperation between French and British liberal economic thinkers, who aimed at placing the principles of unhindered trade at the basis of any acceptable economic policy.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-52815-1_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-52815-1_9
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9783319528144
SP - 81
EP - 93
BT - History of Economic Rationalities
A2 - Bek-Thomsen, Jakob
A2 - Christiansen, Christian Olaf
A2 - Gaardsmand Jacobsen, Stefan
A2 - Thorup, Mikkel
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -
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