The first hundred thirty years of university economic teaching in czech lands

The article describes the tradition of teaching economics in the first hundred thirty years of its history since it was introduced as a subject of university studies. Attention is paid to the relation between development of the content of teaching and history of economic thinking. A diversity of the forms of teaching economics is also described with focus on lectures, seminars and examinations. Another topic is the number of students, relations between teachers and students and availability of textbooks and other economic literature. Special attention is paid to the history of textbooks and to pedagogic personalities. The history of teaching and its forms is described at the three developmental stages that have always left their impression: cameralism, classical political economy and younger historical and Austrian schools.

Keywords: political sciences, teaching economics, national economy, commercial science, lectures, seminars, examinations, textbooks