Constructing Economic Science
The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950
Series: Oxford Studies in the History of Economics;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 April 2022
- ISBN 9780190491741
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages440 pages
- Size 165x244x35 mm
- Weight 748 g
- Language English 216
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Short description:
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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An accessible account of the role of the modern university in the creation of economics
During the late nineteenth century concerns about international commercial rivalry were often expressed in terms of national provision for training and education, and the role of universities in such provision. It was in this context that the modern university discipline of economics emerged. The first undergraduate economics program was inaugurated in Cambridge in 1903; but this was merely a starting point.
Constructing Economic Science charts the path through commercial education to the discipline of economics and the creation of an economics curriculum that could then be replicated around the world. Rather than describing this transition epistemologically, as a process of theoretical creation, Keith Tribe shows how the new "science" of economics was primarily an institutional creation of the modern university. He demonstrates how finance, student numbers, curricula, teaching, new media, the demands of employment, and more broadly, the international perception that industrializing economies required a technically-skilled workforce, all played their part in shaping economics as we know it today. This study explains the conditions originally shaping the science of economics, providing in turn a foundation for an understanding of the way in which this new language transformed public policy.
Tribe's book is a worthy recipient of the best book prize of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (2022) and will be a work of reference on the formation of economics as an academic discipline for years to come.
Table of Contents:
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
