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The history of economics as economics?

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  • Yuichi Shionoya

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This paper critically evaluates the current decline of the relationship between economics and the history of economics, and proposes a framework called the panorama-cum-scenario model for the practice of the history of economics. Starting with the Hegelian thesis that the history of economics is economics itself, the paper argues that such a relationship is necessary but not sufficient because the history of economics is a metatheory addressed to economic theory. The history of economics needs a panoramic view of the subject and a scenario for the construction, interpretation, and evaluation of the system of economics. The panorama-cum-scenario model enables us to work on the history of economics not only by historical and rational reconstruction but also by global reconstruction. Nietzsche's anti-Hegelian viewpoint and Heidegger's hermeneutical standpoint are useful for identifying the role of historical research in developing economic knowledge based on the panorama-cum-scenario model. Several approaches to the history of economics are examined in light of the panorama-cum-scenario model. Schumpeter's history of economics is interpreted as an example of the panorama-cum-scenario model.

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  • Yuichi Shionoya, 2009. "The history of economics as economics?," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(4), pages 575-597.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eujhet:v:16:y:2009:i:4:p:575-597
    DOI: 10.1080/09672560903201243
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    1. André Lapidus, 2016. "Pourquoi l'histoire de la pensée économique est-elle différente des autres histoires ? [Почему История Экономической Мысли Отличается От Других Историй?]," Post-Print hal-01619020, HAL.
    2. Stefano Lucarelli & Alfonso Giuliani & Hervé Baron, 2019. "The past and future of the social sciences. A Schumpeterian theory of scientific development?," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 43(6), pages 1701-1722.
    3. André Lapidus, 2019. "Bringing them alive," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(6), pages 1084-1106, November.
    4. Lucarelli, Stefano & Baron, Hervé, 2014. "On Schumpeter’s 'The Past and Future of Social Sciences'. A Schumpeterian Theory of Scientific Development?," MPRA Paper 60391, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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