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Were J.R. McCulloch's histories of economic thought ever used as "texts" in 
what passed for economics classes in the mid-19th Century? 
 
Does Wesley C. Mitchell's "Types of Economic Theory" count?  These were 
notes from his teaching of HET at Columbia from 1913 to 1937,  mimeographed 
c. 1926 and then published as a book only in 1961. 
 
Also, Gide and Rist make it clear that courses in HET were taught in French 
universities at the turn of the century.  They note that at the Sorbonne and 
the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, the only chairs in economics are "exclusively 
devoted to the history of doctrines."   They also note that numerous texts 
were available -- indeed, too many, perhaps.  They mention (but do not cite) 
a few, including Ingram and Cossa.  Adolphe-Jérôme Blanqui has a pretty 
comprehensive history (Histoire de l'économie politique en Europe, 1860), 
but I am not sure if it was used for teaching. 
 
Goncalo 
 
 
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