1st Edition
The Market for Political Economy The Advent of Economics in British University Culture, 1850-1905
272 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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Why did political economy become pre-eminent in the emergence and development of the social sciences? From a relatively early stage in its development political economy was accepted as a legitimate, if minor, part of a general liberal education. However, economic science did not become firmly rooted in the academic curriculum of the modern English university until after the first world war.The... Read more
R.D. Collison Black^n, Queen's University, Belfast; Thomas Boylan, University College, Galway; Gregory Claeys, Royal Holloway and Bedford College, University of College; Tadgh Foley, University College, Galway; Istvan Hont, University of Cambridge; Alon Kadish, HebExeter; Keith Tribe, Keele University, University of Exeter
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Alon Kadish, Keith Tribe
`The best account to date of a formative phase of British economics.' - TLS
`Kadish has an encyclopaedic knowledge of his subject...a very fine new book.' - THES
