Constructing Economic Science

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).

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.

• AcknowledgementsNote to ReadersPART I. From Public Knowledge to Institutional Discourse1. Discourse and Discipline2. Re-organising the University: The German Model, the American Version of that Model, and the University of London3. The Social Mediation of Economic DiscoursePART II. The Cambridge Moment4. The Moral Sciences Tripos and Cambridge Political Economy5. The Cambridge Tripos in Economic and Political Science: Structure and Outcome6. What is "Marshallianism"?PART III. Alternative Histories7. Why not Oxford?8. The Unrealised Prospect of Historical EconomicsPART IV. Commerce and Economics9. Models for Commercial Education: The USA, France, and Germany10. Higher Commercial Education in Great Britain and Ireland - Late Start, Early Dissolution11. Commerce and Economics at the London School of Economics12. The Scientisation of Economics13. Concluding RemarksAppendicesBibliography