He keeps it lively, not arcane; he is witty and rarely tedious. The prose is interesting and engaging for its readers better educated. This is a book that can be read by non-specialists for enlightenment, enjoyment, and pleasure. ? Cecil E. Bohanon (Ball State University), Journal of the History of Economic

Keith Tribe has a message for the economics profession: words matter?. The prose is interesting and engaging for both the specialist and generalist, and is bound to leave all its readers better educated. ? Journal of the History of Economic 01/07/2017

Keith Tribe shows that if one pays careful attention to how they were written and how they were read, much can still be learned from re-reading some well-known texts. This book offers a refreshing and original approach to the history of economics. ? Roger E. Backhouse, University of Birmingham

This powerful book offers a learned, penetrating, and beautifully-written account of the creation and development of economics. Sensitive to the issue of the language of political economy, Keith Tribe identifies the key turning points in his reading of the canonical texts of the discipline such as Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Karl Marx's Das Kapital, and Léon Walras's Éléments d'économie pure and shows how these works shaped modern economics. The Economy of the Word is simply one of the best books ever written on the historiography of economics. ? Loïc Charles, University of Paris 8 and Ined

Keith Tribe has always been the most interdisciplinary and wide-ranging of scholars, and The Economy of the Word is a compelling challenge to traditional research in every area of economic thought. The result is a remarkable set of essays from Smith to Marx to Walras and after. The Economy of the Word should be read by every intellectual historian and everyone interested in the relationship between social science and history. ? Richard Whatmore, University of St. Andrews

In an age where the rhetoric of economics has a higher premium than almost anything else, he is surely right to say that the languages of economics and of the economy have actually been cheapened, and our understanding of what we are talking about when we use those languages correspondingly weakened. Showing us again the riches and surprises to be found in the real history of economic ideas and its various idioms and iterations, Tribe's exemplary detective work clarifies the meaning behind the words of the past, and in so doing becomes full of interest for thinking about the possibilities of understanding the present. ? Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge

excellent ? Christopher Brooke, Max Weber Studies
Biografía del autor
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.