ABSTRACT

First published in 1989, Alon Kadish’s study re-examines the standard view held by historians of economic thought whereby economic history emerged from the historicist criticism of neoclassical economic theory. He also demonstrates how the discipline evolved as an extension of the study of history. The study will appeal to students and scholars in historiography, the development of higher education and in the history if economic thought in general, as well as all those interested in the evolution of Oxford and Cambridge.

part |1 pages

Part I: Oxford historians

chapter 2|30 pages

Professors and tutors

chapter 3|19 pages

Tutors and students

part |1 pages

Part II: The Cambridge economists

chapter 4|17 pages

Economics at Cambridge, c.1885

chapter 5|30 pages

Tinkering with the triposes

chapter 6|39 pages

The liberation of economics

part |1 pages

Part III: Economic history and the contraction of economics

chapter 7|17 pages

The contraction of economics