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

by Keith Tribe

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190491744
• ISBN13: 9780190491741
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"