ABSTRACT
Nicolaas Gerard Pierson (1839-1909) created the foundation for a fully developed theoretical economic science in the Netherlands. Before Pierson there had been important economists like Mees, van Rees and others (Hasenberg Butter 1969: 99-104). Pierson, however, aimed to construct a new economic theory (van Maarseveen 1981: 44). Dutch economics was dominated in those days by French economists like Bastiat and Say. Mees and Pierson introduced English economics and adapted it to the Netherlands.
