ABSTRACT
The second half of the nineteenth century was of decisive importance for the institutionalisation of the teaching of political economy as an autonomous discipline all over Europe. In spite of previous isolated experiences during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England, France and Germany, it was only then that a true support became visible, at least from the supply side: as Kadish and Tribe emphasise, ‘political economy entered the curriculum of the modern university as a supply-side push which, over several decades, encountered no steady and reliable demand sufficient to promote it from a subject of general interest to a subject of specialised study’ (1993: 3).
