Description: Constructing Economic Science shows how the new "science" of economics was primarily an institutional creation of the modern university. Keith Tribe charts the path through commercial education to the discipline of economics and the creation of an economics curriculum that could be replicated around the world.
Review Quotes: "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." -- Harro Maas, Oeconomia
"Keith Tribe's new book is fascinating." -- Fabio Masini, Roma Tre University"Constructing Economic Science is a valuable and empirically rich book that explores the making of economics as an academic discipline in the UK in the period 1850-1950." -- H-Soz-Kult"Constructing Economic Science is an outstanding monograph." -- Rodger Middleton, University of Bristol, Journal of Modern History"This is a book that should bear a health and safety advisory: in places it gives the reader a jolt and different people will be jolted at different moments." -- Tiago Mata, Wiley"I highly recommend this book to all economists who are interested in how our subjecthas come to be studied and taught up to the present day." -- Susan Howson, The European Journal of the History of EconomicThought