Nieuw licht op Pierson

Summary J.G.S.J. van Maarseveen's doctoral thesis on N.G. Pierson contains much new and interesting information, based on extended archival research, about Pierson's life till 1877, his personality and his religious, social and political opinions. It discusses his main scientific writings of that period and his involvement in various debates on policy issues. The author pays special attention to Pierson as an adherent of progressive liberalism, akin to that professed by Stuart Mill, which emerged in the Netherlands during the 1860s. Around 1870, according to the author, Pierson veered towards a more conservative attitude. Bespreking van J.G.S.J. van Maarseveen,Nicolaas Gerard Pierson Handelsman Econoom en Bankier Eerste periode 1839–1877, Proefschrift Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 1981. 317 blz.     

Briefwisseling tussen S. Vissering en N. G. Pierson

Summary The correspondence between Vissering (1818–1888), professor of economics at Leiden University, and the better known Pierson (1839–1909) which, in so far as it is available, is published here for the first time, contains many interesting comments on practical and scientific economic problems, current events, their own publications and those of others. One example is their endorsement of the government proposal to continue the Netherlands Bank's monopoly of the note issue when its charter expired in 1863 against the strong attacks of other economists who favoured free banking. A quarter of a century later they wrote about the renewal of the charter as insiders, Pierson then being President and Vissering one of the directors of the Bank.

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Briefwisseling tussen S. Vissering en N. G. Pierson

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Oud-ambassadeur.     

Een nieuwe visie op de economie als wetenschap

Bespreking van:A. G. Papandreou, Economics as a Science. T. B. Lippingcott Company, Chicago-Philadelphia-New York. 1958. 148 blz.     

Een blik op den toestand der arbeidende klassen in Pruissen,Zwitserland en Oostenrijk

Zie pag. 359 van dezen jaargang.