Recent Work by Keith Tribe
Before Political Economy, 2024
During the 1790s Britain experienced a series of poor harvests which, given an expanding populati... more During the 1790s Britain experienced a series of poor harvests which, given an expanding population and wartime disruption to the European grain trade, resulted in sudden and rapid increases in the domestic price of wheat. In modern discussion of Corn and Poor
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The most complete account of the context and purpose of the 1948 German Currency Reform, the disc... more The most complete account of the context and purpose of the 1948 German Currency Reform, the discussion here of post-war monetary policy and inflation seems today curiously relevant once more in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, the form in which the Nazi government financed its armaments programme looks rather like "quantitative easing", while the postwar condition of Germany bears comparison with the notion of "stagflation" from the 1970s. Furthermore, in concluding that "inflation is not a monetary phenomenon" the essay highlights the limitations of modern discussion of inflation.
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This paper, developed from my Istvan Hont Memorial Lecture of 2015, considers the work of Alfred ... more This paper, developed from my Istvan Hont Memorial Lecture of 2015, considers the work of Alfred Marshall in Cambridge not from the perspective its eventual outcome, but instead from that of its slow and complex genesis, in the context of the Moral Sciences Tripos. By placing Sidgwick's own political economy in the context of the response to Mill's utilitarianism, it is possible to understand rather better why Marshall sought to diminish the importance of Jevons's Theory of Political Economy (1871), while also seeing more clearly how Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics (1874) relates to contemporary political economy.
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My 1988 monograph on the Kameralwissenschaften and the formation of Nationaloekonomie is now in p... more My 1988 monograph on the Kameralwissenschaften and the formation of Nationaloekonomie is now in print again in a reset edition.
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This introduction to the work of Adam Smith was written for my then sixteen-year old grand-daught... more This introduction to the work of Adam Smith was written for my then sixteen-year old grand-daughter in December 2015 as a way of showing that Wealth of Nations was both accessible and interesting. I post it now to mark the entry into production of the new book that Roger Backhouse and I have written on the history of economics, which I discuss in a post on my website keithtribe.co.uk.
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This version of my paper on Weber's lecture "Wissenschaft als Beruf" was presented at Copenhagen... more This version of my paper on Weber's lecture "Wissenschaft als Beruf" was presented at Copenhagen Business School on 24 November 2016 and replaces the earlier French version.
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This collection of essays seeks to move discussion on from the many critiques of Thomas Piketty's... more This collection of essays seeks to move discussion on from the many critiques of Thomas Piketty's account of inequality to a more positive phase of exploration of concepts and data.
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This paper is primarily concerned with the practice of the translation of historical works in the... more This paper is primarily concerned with the practice of the translation of historical works in the field of politics and economics, pointing out that most discussion in this area relates to lexical choices, while neglecting syntactic issues. It also discusses in greater depth issues arising in the translation of a later seventeenth-century text, Hoernigk's Oesterreich ueber alles.
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The uncertainties of population changes are explored through first, a critique of Malthus's Essay... more The uncertainties of population changes are explored through first, a critique of Malthus's Essay on Population, showing that an author with an empirical and inductive reputation relied heavily upon "stylised facts" at odds with the world around him, and a theodicy opposed to social and political reform; second, through the examination of predictions made in the mid-twentieth century that Britain's population was on a path of secular decline.
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I present her a brief introduction to my new book, copied off my website.
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Essay on the work of Wilhelm Hennis from his 90th birthday Festschrift edited by Andreas Anter, W... more Essay on the work of Wilhelm Hennis from his 90th birthday Festschrift edited by Andreas Anter, Wilhelm Hennis' Politische Wissenschaft (2013)
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