摘要：Welcome to the 15th issue of the United Aca-demics Journal of Social Sciences. Our guest- editor is Evert Schoorl, retired director of graduate studies in the economics department at the Univer-sity of Groningen and author of Jean-Baptiste Say: Revolutionary, Entrepreneur, Economist 1767–1832 (2012). Evert and I are very happy to present you with this issue dedicated to the Enlightenment. Although several aspects of the Enlightenment are being discussed, this issue's focus is primarily on economics. One of the permanent fruits of the Enlighten-ment was the institutionalization of the new disci-pline of political economy. Until Adam Smith and his generation, there were no academic chairs in this subject. Instead, the framework was enveloped in the amalgam of the so-called moral and political scienc-es, where present-day law, geography, psychology, sociology, and economics all had their niche, and were jointly or separately taught according to varied professorial preferences.One generation later – the generation of Thomas Robert Malthus and Jean-Baptiste Say – the institu-tionalization of academic economics began to take place. This was a process marked by some upheaval in the European academic world.
