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Methods in the history of economic thought
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The practitioners of the history of economic thought engage frequently in discussion
on issues relating to its subject-matter and method. It is because those who study this
discipline like to feel firm ground beneath their feet that retrospective overviews and
prospective considerations are presented cyclically, expressing concerns and hopes about
the present and future situation of this field of knowledge. The places normally chosen
for this purpose are the conferences promoted by the main international academic
associations and scientific societies that each year bring together the members of this
community. The testimonies of Donald Winch (2000), Heinz D. Kurz (2006) and E. Roy
Weintraub (2007) are a clear illustration of this type of exhortation, while at the same
time revealing quite different commitments and distinct ways of conceiving the existence
of the history of economic thought or the history of economics. This contribution will
be precisely devoted to clarify the methodological distinctions as well as the plurality
and complementarity of methods practiced by historians of economic thought. Despite
their differences of content and style, these approaches come together in their unequivocal
defence of the rights acquired by a discipline that has already found a direction and
sets great store in discussing its identity. Therefore, the next section will briefly refer to
the key ontological question of the actual object itself that affords both autonomy and
identity to this academic endeavour of revisiting the past of economics.
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History of economic thought Historians of economic thought Methods
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Cardoso, J. L. (2016). Methods in the history of economic thought. In Faccarello, G., Kurz, H.D. (Eds). Handbook on the history of economic analysis: Vol. III. Developments in major fields of economics, pp. 391-401. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing