Alon Kadish & Keith Tribe 
The Market for Political Economy [EPUB ebook] 
The Advent of Economics in British University Culture, 1850-1905

Why did political economy become pre-eminent in the emergence and development of the social sciences? From a relatively early stage in its development political economy was accepted as a legitimate, if minor, part of a general liberal education. However, economic science did not become firmly rooted in the academic curriculum of the modern English