Constructing Economic Science The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950

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.

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
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.12.2021
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780190491741
• ISBN: 978-0-19-049174-1
• Pages: 456
• Dimensions (packing): 16.5 x 24.4 x 3.2 cm
• Series: Oxford Studies in History of Economics; OXF STUDIES HISTORY ECONOMICS SERIES; Oxf Studies History Economics
• Subjects: EDUCATION / General, Education, History of Ideas, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Economic history, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic theory and philosophy, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy