ABSTRACT
Much remains to be done with regard to the history of economic thought in Belgium. There are serious lacunae in our knowledge, especially concerning developments of the discipline in the nineteenth century. This century is particularly interesting, since in Belgium as in many other countries, economics gradually established itself as a separate science. Universities created chairs in political economy, specialised economics journals were founded and economists began to form their own societies and associations. In this chapter I will concentrate on one of these organisations, the Société Belge d’Economie Politique, which dates from 1855 and still exists today.1
