Education of Political Economy and Economic Thought in the Czech Lands in the First Half of the 19th Century

The synthesis of cameralism and the classical school of political economy was implemented on university premises in the Czech Lands as the education of Adam Smith was adopted. It was spread out by presentations of Wenzel Gustav Kopetz, the Professor of political economy at the University of Prague, and by professors of political economy at the Olomouc Lyceum (from 1827 at the University of Olomouc). A declining interest of the state in political economy reduced an interest in economic thinking which resulted in a considerable decrease of publishing activity. A certain toleration of authorities to the criticism of the officially prescribed Sonnenfels´ textbook has enabled the reception of new ideas of the classical school into the education. The lectures by Professor Kopetz, have been preserved up to these days, can prove it. A new independent part was formed as a discipline of the education.