ABSTRACT
This chapter starts by accepting three postulates: the influence of liberal ideas became more important in the second half of the nineteenth century than in the first because the development of the agro-exporting model contributed to the implementation of liberal principles on some fronts. Second, we can say that the influence of university education and political economy courses on the economic and social transformations was marginal at that time. Finally, it is possible to verify that there was a transformation in the teaching of political economy in the nineteenth century in Colombia, as a result of a more dynamic economic integration and a consistent acceleration in the processes of circulation of ideas between centre and periphery. The chapter presents the professors and their socio-economic environment as well as the conceptual cores of their teaching programs. It proposes a reflection on the mechanisms of circulation of ideas between the centre and the periphery throughout the nineteenth century, exploring the relation between the knowledge taught and the economic systems of the Republic of New Granada and, subsequently, the United States of Colombia.
