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LEXECON. The Economic Teacher: A transnational and diachronic study of treatises and textbooks of economics (18th to 20th century). Intra- and interlingual corpus-driven and corpus-based analysis with a focus on lexicon and argumentation”.

The research aims to document the evolution of political economy through its written language from 1750 to the post-World War II period. This project is selected to simulate cooperation and cross-fertilisation among scholars in economy and scholars in linguistic, lexicography, lexicology, computational linguistics (LC) and intellectual history. On the other hand, economist and historians of economics normally approach past texts as either theoretical sources, or as resources to study relationship between their contents and the historical context in which they appear. Their typical questions are the relationships between past theories and contemporary theories or in a more historical (continuare testo da qui)