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

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Tribe, Keith

 
9780190491741: Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950
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ISBN 10: 0190491744 ISBN 13: 9780190491741
Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2022

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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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Informazioni sull?autore

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).

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Editore
OUP USA
Data di pubblicazione
2022
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0190491744
ISBN 13 
9780190491741
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
440
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