出版社：Faculdad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires
摘要：Most economists work today as economics lecturers as well as researchers or advisors. But economics lecturing is not only important at present time, but has played a crucial role as well as in the past. The foundation of the first chairs on Political Economy –that meant a significant step in the development of economics science– did not start in the then richer countries –England, France– but in the poorer ones. The first took place in Naples 250 years ago, with Antonio Genovesi as protagonist (1754). The second occurred in Glasgow, with Adam Smith, sometime between 1752 and 1763. The third, at Aragon in 1784, entrusted to Lorenzo Normante. And the fourth case to be considered, in 1823 at the University of Buenos Aires, with Pedro José Agrelo as professor.
Those regions were emerging from a state of relative backwardness, due either subjection to foreign rule or to own stagnation. All four cases of chair-foundation did not happen by chance, but were part and parcel of a new political project, focused on economic development and updating higher teaching.
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