Ontology and the history of economic thought: an introduction
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- Why history of economic thought? Why indeed? The vast majority of economists seem to regard the history of economic ideas as irrelevant at best or a nuisance at worst. The subject has long vanished from economics programmes in most English-speaking countries, even in the form of elective courses, and the same is true in many other places as well. It seems no exaggeration to say that most economics departments would quietly endorse Arthur Pigou’s view of the history of economics, as cited by Mark Blaug amongst others, as antiquarian researches on the wrong opinions of dead men (e.g., Blaug, 1997, p. 1; 2001, p. 154).
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38 Economics, 3502 Banking, Finance and Investment, 3801 Applied Economics, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
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Cambridge Journal of Economics
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0309-166X
1464-3545
1464-3545
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44
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Oxford University Press
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