Dear Deniz and Richard
besides my previous post, you can find some interest in this discussion 
of science de la richesse by Auguste Walras

De la Nature de la Richesse, et de l'Origine de la Valeur - 1831




Le 16/06/2015 14:07, Van Den Berg, Richard a écrit :
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> Dear Deniz,
>
> Your query made me think of Dupont de Nemours’s criticism of Say’s 
> Traite as presenting political economy as merely /la science des 
> richesses/. See:
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> https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/M%C3%A9langes_et_correspondance_d%E2%80%99%C3%A9conomie_politique/Correspondance_avec_Dupont_de_Nemours
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> Perhaps it is of interest to you.
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> Kind regards
>
> Richard van den Berg
>
> *From:*Societies for the History of Economics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> *On Behalf Of *Deniz T. Kilincoglu
> *Sent:* 16 June 2015 08:59
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* [SHOE] "the science of wealth (of nations)"
>
> Dear colleagues,
> I'm trying to trace the source of translating "economics" as "the 
> science of wealth" (and sometimes "the science of the wealth of 
> nations") in late nineteenth-century Ottoman-Turkish.
> Ottoman economists most probably rendered it from French ("la science 
> de la richesse"), from popular sources preceding the 1860s.
> I could find expressions like "l'économie politique est la science de 
> la richesse" in many economic texts from the era, but I'm trying to 
> understand how common it was to use "la science de la richesse" 
> instead of or interchangeably with "l’économie politique" referring to 
> the discipline itself.
> Many thanks in advance for your responses.
> Best,
> Deniz
>
>
> -- 
> Deniz T. Kilincoglu, PhD
>   
> Economics Program
> Middle East Technical University
> Northern Cyprus Campus, T-141
> Kalkanlı, Güzelyurt, KKTC
> via Mersin 10, Turkey
> Telephone: +90 392 661 3017
>   
>
> Just published: */Economics and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire 
> <http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138854062/>/*, Routledge, 
> 2015.
>