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  • Economy and Society

    A New Translation

    by Max Weber, Keith Tribe ...
    The definitive new translation of Max Weber’s classic work of social theory—arguably the most important book by the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century.Max Weber’s Economy and Society is the foundational text for the social sciences of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, presenting a framework for understanding the relations among individual action, social action, economic ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Constructing Economic Science

    The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950

    by Keith Tribe ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in the History of Economics
    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 ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • The Economy of the Word

    Language, History, and Economics

    by Keith Tribe ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in History of Economics
    It was only in the sixteenth century that texts began to refer to the significance of "economic activity" -- of sustaining life. This was not because the ordinary business of life was thought unimportant, but because the principles governing economic conduct were thought to be obvious or uncontroversial. The subsequent development of economic writing thus parallels the development of capitalism in ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Futures Past

    On the Semantics of Historical Time

    by Reinhart Koselleck ...
    Translated by Keith Tribe ...
    Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Balancing the Banks

    Global Lessons from the Financial Crisis

    by Mathias Dewatripont, Jean-Charles Rochet, Jean Tirole ...
    Translated by Keith Tribe ...
    The financial crisis that began in 2007 in the United States swept the world, producing substantial bank failures and forcing unprecedented state aid for the crippled global financial system. Bringing together three leading financial economists to provide an international perspective, Balancing the Banks draws critical lessons from the causes of the crisis and proposes important regulatory reforms ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • The Market for Political Economy

    The Advent of Economics in British University Culture, 1850-1905

    Edited by Alon Kadish, Keith Tribe ...
    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 ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Political Reason and the Language of Change

    Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Ere Nokkala, Marten Seppel, Keith Tribe ...
    Series series Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850
    This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming that "progressive" change was the outcome of "reforms"."Reform" today implies rational, incremental change to public institutions and procedures. "Improvement" has a more general application, emphasising the positive outcome to which "reform" is oriented. But the language of ... Read more

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  • Economic Careers

    Economics and Economists in Britain 1930-1970

    Edited by Keith Tribe ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    In this volume fourteen senior economists describe their early introduction to the study of economics and their contribution to the development of academic economics in Britain. With experience covering a period stretching from the mid 1920s to the late 1960s, many of the contributors not only provide an insight into the role of university disciplines in the education system but describe their ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Markets, Morals, Politics

    Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought

    by Peter N. Miller, John Robertson, Richard Tuck, Pasquale Pasquino, Keith Tribe, Michael Sonenscher, Gareth Stedman Jones, Raymond Geuss, J. G. A. Pocock, John Dunn ...
    When István Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he looked not only to the works of great thinkers but also to their reception and use amid revolution and interstate competition. His ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Calculation and Morality

    The Costs of Slavery and the Value of Emancipation in the French Antilles

    by Caroline Oudin-Bastide, Philippe Steiner, Keith Tribe ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in History of Economics
    Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as compared to free labor. Various and conflicting arguments were presented by abolitionists, colonists, and administrators in slave-holding societies, all of whom used calculations about the relative cost and productivity ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Ancient and Modern Democracy

    Two Concepts of Liberty?

    by Wilfried Nippel ...
    Translated by Keith Tribe ...
    Ancient and Modern Democracy is a comprehensive account of Athenian democracy as a subject of criticism, admiration and scholarly debate for 2,500 years, covering the features of Athenian democracy, its importance for the English, American and French revolutions and for the debates on democracy and political liberty from the nineteenth century to the present. Discussions were always in the context ... Read more

    $138.99 CAD

  • Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology

    by Philippe Steiner ...
    Translated by Keith Tribe ...
    An illuminating account of the development of Durkheim's economic sociologyÉmile Durkheim's work has traditionally been viewed as a part of sociology removed from economics. Rectifying this perception, Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology is the first book to provide an in-depth look at the contributions made to economic sociology by Durkheim and his followers. Philippe Steiner ... Read more

    $86.89 CAD