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Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950 [Kõva köide]

(Independent scholar, translator, and Senior Research Fellow in History, Tartu University)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 440 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 165x244x36 mm, kaal: 748 g
  • Sari: Oxford Studies in the History of Economics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 27-Apr-2022
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0190491744
  • ISBN-13: 9780190491741
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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.

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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. * Harro Maas, Oeconomia * Keith Tribe's new book is fascinating. * Fabio Masini, Roma Tre University * Constructing Economic Science is a valuable and empirically rich book that explores the making of economics as an academic discipline in the UK in the period 1850-1950. * H-Soz-Kult * Constructing Economic Science is an outstanding monograph. * Rodger Middleton, University of Bristol, Journal of Modern History * 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. * Tiago Mata, Wiley * I highly recommend this book to all economists who are interested in how our subjecthas come to be studied and taught up to the present day. * Susan Howson, The European Journal of the History of EconomicThought *

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Winner of Winner, 2022 Best Book Award, European Society for the History of Economic Thought.
Acknowledgements ix
Note to Readers xiii
PART I FROM PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE TO INSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE
1 Discourse and Discipline
3(17)
The Initial Framework
8(4)
The Institutionalisation of Political Economy
12(8)
2 Reconstructing the University: The German Model, the American Version of That Model, and the University of London
20(22)
The `Idea of a University'
22(2)
German Universities in the Nineteenth Century
24(5)
The American University
29(5)
The University of London
34(8)
3 The Social Mediation of Economic Discourse
42(35)
Societies and Associations
45(4)
Popular Pedagogy and Self-Education
49(5)
The University Extension Movement
54(4)
Elementary Textbooks
58(4)
Curriculum, Examinations, Employment
62(5)
From Magazines and Periodicals to Academic Journals
67(10)
PART II THE CAMBRIDGE MOMENT
4 The Moral Sciences Tripos and Cambridge Political Economy
77(30)
The Mathematical Tripos
79(7)
The Organisation of the Moral Sciences Tripos
86(9)
Marshall's Lectures on Political Economy
95(3)
Marshall's Inaugural Lecture
98(2)
Reorganising the Teaching of Political Economy
100(5)
Appendix: Selected Graduates in Mathematics and in Moral Sciences
105(2)
5 The Cambridge Tripos in Economic and Political Science: Structure and Outcome
107(34)
Designing the Tripos
111(3)
Marshall's Plea: His Final Argument
114(4)
The Committee Stage and Subsequent Dissent
118(5)
The Inauguration of the Tripos
123(2)
Student Performance
125(10)
Some Conclusions from the Data
135(5)
Appendix: The Tripos Data Set
140(1)
6 What Is `Marshallianism'?
141(36)
`Jevonian Economies'
144(5)
Marshall as Teacher
149(3)
Pigou as Student of Marshall
152(7)
Sydney Chapman as Student of Marshall
159(2)
The Composition of Principles of Economics
161(8)
The 1920s: Moving on from Marshall
169(8)
PART III ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES
7 Why Not Oxford?
177(19)
The Oxford Examination System
180(2)
The Intercollegiate and University Lecture Systems
182(2)
Classics and History
184(3)
Edgeworth as Oxford Professor
187(3)
The Oxford Diploma in Economics and the PPE
190(6)
8 The Unrealised Prospect of Historical Economics
196(31)
William Ashley
198(2)
Toynbee's Lectures
200(9)
Ashley's Economic History
209(4)
Ashley in Toronto and Harvard
213(2)
The Tariff Controversy and Liberal Imperialism
215(3)
William Cunningham's Historical Economics
218(9)
PART IV COMMERCE AND ECONOMICS
9 Models for Commercial Education: The United States, France, and Germany
227(24)
The View from the United States
228(8)
French Commercial Education
236(2)
German Commercial Education
238(13)
10 Higher Commercial Education in Great Britain and Ireland: Late Start, Early Dissolution
251(44)
The Birmingham Faculty of Commerce
252(13)
The Manchester Faculty of Commerce
265(14)
The Teaching of Commerce and Economics in Liverpool
279(9)
Commerce in the University of Leeds
288(4)
Commerce in Scotland and Ireland
292(3)
11 Commerce and Economics at the London School of Economics
295(38)
The Early History of the School
295(5)
The London BSc (Econ)
300(3)
The Creation of the BCom
303(1)
Undergraduate Teaching during the 1920s
304(8)
Robbins as Professor of Economics
312(5)
Commerce and Economics during the 1930s
317(5)
The Dundee School of Economics
322(11)
12 The Scientisation of Economics
333(36)
Allyn Young's Inaugural Lecture
336(3)
Lionel Robbins's Inaugural Lecture
339(2)
The Sources for and Structure of Robbins's Teaching
341(8)
The Nature and Significance of Economic Science
349(5)
The Instrumentalisation of `Austrian Theory' and Its Legacy
354(3)
The British Textbook Literature
357(7)
Graduate and Undergraduate Education: The United States and Britain
364(5)
13 Concluding Remarks
369(6)
Appendix 375(16)
Bibliography 391(28)
Index 419
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).