New Scope, New Sources, New Methods? An Essay on Contemporary Scholarship in History of Economic Thought Journals, 2016-2017
The Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper Series at Duke University No. 2018-07
60 Pages Posted: 22 May 2018 Last revised: 26 May 2018
Date Written: May 2, 2018
Abstract
This essay gives an overview of a set of selected articles published between 2016 and 2017 in the major journals that cover the history of economic thought. In surveying the literature, we focus on three major aspects – the scope, the sources, and the methods – with reference to which we discuss the novelties that we find in the recent literature on the history of economic thought.
Keywords: Historiography; recent literature on the history of economic thought; scope, methods, and sources in the history of economic thought; new trends in the history of economic thought
JEL Classification: B00, B1, B2, B4
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