As an economist who has been trained with some sensibility to historical aspects of the discipline (my PhD supervisor was a historian of economics, though my PhD thesis was not history of economic thought properly speaking), I’m totally used to the folk view entertained by most of my colleagues that studying the history of economics is useless.
The End of History (of Ideas)? And Why…
As an economist who has been trained with some sensibility to historical aspects of the discipline (my PhD supervisor was a historian of economics, though my PhD thesis was not history of economic thought properly speaking), I’m totally used to the folk view entertained by most of my colleagues that studying the history of economics is useless.