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Constructing Economic Science - The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950

English · Hardback

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Constructing Economic Science shows how the new "science" of economics was primarily an institutional creation of the modern university. Keith Tribe charts the path through commercial education to the discipline of economics and the creation of an economics curriculum that could be replicated around the world.

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  • Acknowledgements

  • Note to Readers

  • PART I. From Public Knowledge to Institutional Discourse

  • 1. Discourse and Discipline

  • 2. Re-organising the University: The German Model, the American Version of that Model, and the University of London

  • 3. The Social Mediation of Economic Discourse

  • PART II. The Cambridge Moment

  • 4. The Moral Sciences Tripos and Cambridge Political Economy

  • 5. The Cambridge Tripos in Economic and Political Science: Structure and Outcome

  • 6. What is "Marshallianism"?

  • PART III. Alternative Histories

  • 7. Why not Oxford?

  • 8. The Unrealised Prospect of Historical Economics

  • PART IV. Commerce and Economics

  • 9. Models for Commercial Education: The USA, France, and Germany

  • 10. Higher Commercial Education in Great Britain and Ireland - Late Start, Early Dissolution

  • 11. Commerce and Economics at the London School of Economics

  • 12. The Scientisation of Economics

  • 13. Concluding Remarks

  • Appendices

  • Bibliography



About the author

Keith Tribe is an economic historian and independent scholar with a long-standing interest in language and translation. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Tartu and teaches history of economics at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Economy of the Word (OUP, 2015).

Summary

Constructing Economic Science shows how the new "science" of economics was primarily an institutional creation of the modern university. Keith Tribe charts the path through commercial education to the discipline of economics and the creation of an economics curriculum that could be replicated around the world.

Additional text

This is a book that should bear a health and safety advisory: in places it gives the reader a jolt and different people will be jolted at different moments.

Product details

Authors Keith Tribe, Keith (Independent Scholar Tribe
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2021
 
EAN 9780190491741
ISBN 978-0-19-049174-1
No. of pages 456
Dimensions 165 mm x 244 mm x 32 mm
Series Oxford Studies in the History of Economics
OXF STUDIES HISTORY ECONOMICS SERIES
Oxf Studies History Economics
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries

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