Dear Deniz, it is very easy to show that 'science de la richesse" was a synonym of political economy in the first half of 19th century, not from "popular sources" but just to explain the title of books. You can check it by yourself if you enter "science, richesse" as word of the title in the catalogue of French universities libraries http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/ see for example Jean Baptiste Say Say, J. B. 1826. /Catechisme d'économie politique ou instruction familiere qui montre de quelle facon les richesses sont produites, distribuées et consommées dans la sociéte: 3. ed. revue par l'auteur, et enrichie de nouveaux développemens/. or another book by Joseph Garnier Garnier, Joseph. 1858. /Abrégé des éléments de l'économie politique: ou, Premières notions sur l'organisation de la société, et sur la production, la répartition et l'emploi de la richesse individuelle et sociale/. Paris: Guillaumin et cie, Garnier frères. Clearly in Say's book as well as in Garnier'sone, titles and subtitles equate : économie politique and "science de la richesse" The same hold in the following item which uses explicitly "science de la richesse": L'économie politique sous le Consulat et l'Empire. Misère de l'économie, science de la richesse <http://www.sudoc.abes.fr//DB=2.1/SET=6/TTL=31/SHW?FRST=32> Damamme, Dominique / 1986 Best, A. A. professor emeritus Le 16/06/2015 09:58, Deniz T. Kilincoglu a écrit : > 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. >