著者
上宮 正一郎
出版者
神戸大学大学院経済学研究科 / 神戸大学経済学部
雑誌
神戸大学経済学研究年報 (ISSN:02863340)
巻号頁・発行日
no.48, pp.25-67, 2001

In the study of the history of political economy, relatively little was known about the institutionalization of political economy or economics as an autonomous discipline even in Britain. Though in 1982 a research project was launched on a large scale in the western world and Japan, G. J. Stigler's statistical study on the professionalization of political economy was one of the pioneering works in this field. W. S. Jevons provides a good subject for such a study. He, well known as one of the contributors to the 'Marginal Revolution' in the 1870's, was one of the few professional economists of his time. We examine him as an academic economist from the standpoint of the professionalization of political economy in several aspects. His career was mainly centered on academic appointments at Owens College, Manchester (1863-76) and University College, London (1876-81), both outside the older universities of Britain. Section II deals with Jevons's career as a tutor and a professor at Manchester and London. Section III examines the situation of the academic professorship in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. Section IV examines his view regarding teaching, the contents of his lectures from Calendars of both Colleges and lecture notes taken down by his student in 1875-76, textbooks suggested at his classes, and some questions of his examination papers. Section IV examines the numbers and standards of students who attended his classes. Section V examines his publications while he was in the academic profession. Section VI examines the salary which he was paid by the Colleges. Though our examination is centered on examining these aspects of Jevons's career and activities as an academic professor, he can be regarded as a transitional figure in the professionalization and institutionalization of political economy. At his time the institutionalization of political economy was advancing but was not complete. As important historical materials, the Calendars of his lectures on political economy, logic, and mental and moral philosophy at the both Colleges are reproduced at the end of this article.