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6 - Contested Identities

The History of Economics since 1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2014

By
Roger E. Backhouse  and
Philippe Fontaine
Edited by
Roger E. Backhouse  and
Philippe Fontaine
Roger E. Backhouse
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
Philippe Fontaine
Affiliation:
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
Roger E. Backhouse
Affiliation:
University of Birmingham
Philippe Fontaine
Affiliation:
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
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Summary

In 2007, when the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) proposed a new classification in which “history of economic thought” was moved from “economics” to “history, archeology, religion and philosophy,” some in the field were up in arms, protesting that this amounted to its destruction (see Kates and Millmow 2008a, b). As most Australian historians of economics are affiliated to economics departments, this change threatened to render their research worthless within their institutions. However, their reaction also reflected a belief that what they were doing fell under the jurisdiction of economics and that it could not therefore be considered a form of the history and philosophy of science.

This episode and others like it point to an identity problem: Most historians of economics are trained as economists and think of themselves as such, but the remainder of the economics profession cannot see the significance of the history of economics for what they are doing. Some historians of economics, such as those who challenged the ABS reclassification, are committed to trying to change this situation while others contend that what they do is a form of history and accordingly feel less concerned about economists’ lack of interest.

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intellectual historyidentity problemeconomic theoriesarcheologyAustralian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)economic history
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A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences , pp. 183 - 210
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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