Why History of Economics?

Tony Aspromourgos

History of Economics Review, 2017, vol. 67, issue 1, 59-69

Abstract: This essay addresses the question, why, if at all, the history of economic thought should have relevance for students of economics, as economists. The critical point turns on the existence of qualitative differences between the social sciences and (most of) the natural sciences – differences which no amount of intellectual progress could ever eliminate. Thereby, it is argued that the social sciences simultaneously share partly in the character of the natural sciences and partly in the character of the humanities. Hence, most of the argument is also applicable to the larger question of the relevance of the history of social thought as a whole, for students across all the social sciences.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/10370196.2017.1339580

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