Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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