The age of the contemplative economist-scholar at home equally in classical languages, economic history, the history of ideas, and mathematical theory, has passed. The history of economics as a subdiscipline has lost touch with the mainstream study of economics. In The Future of the History of Economics, internationally known scholars from ten countries provide a comparative assessment of the subdiscipline. The 26 chapters address different national traditions, journals, professional meetings, graduate and undergraduate ...
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The age of the contemplative economist-scholar at home equally in classical languages, economic history, the history of ideas, and mathematical theory, has passed. The history of economics as a subdiscipline has lost touch with the mainstream study of economics. In The Future of the History of Economics, internationally known scholars from ten countries provide a comparative assessment of the subdiscipline. The 26 chapters address different national traditions, journals, professional meetings, graduate and undergraduate education, the socialization of new members of the disciplinary community, economic heterodoxy, and connections to other scholarly communities.
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