Dear Colleagues,

Thank you for responding to my query.
By making an online access, I found Mason (1982) (suggested by Roger
Sandilands) quite interesting and useful to my current research on
Martin Bronfenbrenner and related topics.

I have decided to make a further query.

Could anyone tell me which version of J.S. Mill's _Principles of Political
Economy_ could be used in Boston in 1878?  According to William Ashley,
there were seven editions, published in 1848, 1849, 1852, 1857, 1862,
1865, and 1871 in the UK.  Was the seventh edition of Mill's _Principles
of Political Economy_ popular in Boston and the US around 1878?

Well, an American who had studied (probably majored in sociology and/or the
history of philosophy) at Harvard during the period of 1870-1876 came to
Japan and taught Political Economy from 1878 till around 1886.  A Japanese
who had taken the courses on Political Economy in 1880 and 1881 published
his _Theory of Political Economy_ (1886) in Japanese by referring to
J. Laurence Laughlin's edition (1884) of Mill's _Principles of Political
Economy_. Laughlin's edition (1884) was not available in 1878.

Thank you,

Aiko Ikeo
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> Hello,
> Could anyone tell me who taught political economy at Harvard during the
> period of 1870-1877?
> By reading William J. Barber's short piece,
> I learned that James Laurence Laughlin taught this subject from 1878-1888.
> Thank you,
> Aiko Ikeo