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Though I'm not at all sure it's the best book on this subject, and though I 
have an interest (that is, an essay of my own) in it, I'd suggest William 
J. Barber, ed., Economists and Higher Learning in the Nineteenth Century, 
Transaction Publishers (1993).  It's a series of essays about how the 
discipline of economics became "institutionalized" in various American 
colleges and universities before 1900, and naturally encompasses a great 
deal of the history of American economic thought in this period. 
 
Hope this helps. 
 
Rich Adelstein 
Professor of Economics 
Wesleyan University 
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