The Examination Papers for the Whately Professorship of Political Economy: Responses of a Science and Ideology to the Great Irish Famine

Nien-hê Hsieh
Additional contact information
Nien-hê Hsieh: Postal: Department of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

Economics Technical Papers from Trinity College Dublin, Economics Department

Abstract: Founded in 1832, the Whately Professorship of Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin was the first chair of its kind in Ireland, and the examination papers given to its potential holders uniquely document the criteria for mastery of political economy in nineteenth century Ireland and Britain. Noting the lack of an impact by the Great Irish Famine on these criteria, I demonstrate how a belief in the scientific status of political economy explains this observation. I conclude by relating this explanation to current debates surrounding the role of economic thought in responses to the Famine.

JEL-codes: N01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tcd:tcduet:968

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Economics Technical Papers from Trinity College Dublin, Economics Department Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Colette Angelov (econres@tcd.ie).