Current trends in the historiography of economics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10713680 |
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| Authors | Michael Brzezinski (0000-0002-7704-3805, corresponding author), Michal Brzezinski (0000-0002-3426-507X) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 543-560 |
| Publication date | 2004-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politická ekonomie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3233 • E-ISSN: 2336-8225 |
| Publisher | Prague University of Economics and Business (PUBLISHER • CZ) |
| DOI | 10.18267/j.polek.476 |
| OpenAlex | W2324883792 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This paper surveys some ongoing changes in the historiography of economics. I argue that there is a close connection between a decline of prescriptive economic methodologies based on the positivist philosophy of science and the emerging tendency to write history of economics in a non-Whig way. This "new history" uses historical rather than rational reconstruction method of narration and draws heavily on recent works in sociology of scientific knowledge, science studies, literary theory and general historiography of science. I present main features of this approach as exemplified in some recent works concerned with the influence of mathematics and natural sciences on the history of twentieth-century economics
Economic methodology · Economics · Epistemology · Historiography · History of science · Narrative · Neoclassical economics · Philosophy of science · Political science · Positive economics · Positivism · Social science · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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