Economy of the Word
Subtitle: Language, History, and Economics
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780190211615
Subjects: Economics, history; Economics, philosophy
Description: Keith Tribe elaborates an explicitly philological approach to the history of economic thought. Beginning with an account of the transformation in the concept of 'economy' from antiquity to modernity, he presents readings of the writings of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Léon Walras which seek to demonstrate what can be achieved by an attention to the construction of text, concept, and number.