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The Foundation of Birmingham's Faculty of Commerce as a Statement on the Nature of Economics

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W. J. Ashley, founder of the Birmingham Faculty of Commerce, believed that the study of economics should be predominantly empirical, inductive, and utilitarian. His view formed the guiding principle of the faculty's curriculum, which was aimed at training a new elite of businessmen, industrialists, and civil servants and at transforming English economics in general. It was, thus, conceived as both an institutional and scientific rival of Alfred Marshall's new Economics Tripos at Cambridge. Its relative failure in these respects was part of the process that resulted in the institutional severance of economic history and business studies from mainstream economics. Copyright 1991 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd and The Victoria University of Manchester

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  • Kadish, Alon, 1991. "The Foundation of Birmingham's Faculty of Commerce as a Statement on the Nature of Economics," The Manchester School of Economic & Social Studies, University of Manchester, vol. 59(2), pages 160-222, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:manch2:v:59:y:1991:i:2:p:160-22
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    1. Keith Tribe, 2003. "The Faculty of Commerce and Manchester Economics, 1903–44," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 71(6), pages 680-710, December.

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