Keith TribeThe Economy of the Word
Language, History, and Economics
After doing his graduate work in the social and political sciences in Cambridge during the 1970s, Keith Tribe spent most of the first half of the 1980s in Germany studying the development of eighteenth-century German economics, and developing an interest in the work of Max Weber. During this period he was also a member of the Department of Economics at Keele University, where he taught until leaving university employment in 2002. Since then he has worked as a professional rowing coach and as a translator.
1. Introduction: Not a Method, But a Grammar
PART I: WORD AND NUMBER
2. The Word: Economy
3. The Measurement of Economic Activity and the Growth Metric: Constructing National Income in Britain, 1907-1941
PART II: READING - RECEPTION
4. Reading "Trade" in The Wealth of Nations
5. Das Adam Smith Problem and the Origins of Smith Scholarship
PART III: ECONOMICS AS THE THEORY OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
6. Karl Marx's Critique of Political Economy: A Critique
7. "The Price is Right": le prix juste and the Algebra of Action
8. Sources, Arguments, and Prospect
