In 2001, Mark Blaug wrote a paper titled: No History of Ideas, Please, We’re Economists. He pointed how History of Economic Thought is held in low esteem amidst economists and economics curriculums. Twenty five years later, Humberto Barreto of Depauw University’s research shows how little things have changed. The course History of Economic Thought is disappearing […]
This new Working Paper studies the economics books which – judged by the number of editions – were the most influential between 1500 and 1849, and compares these to what is represented in accounts of the history of economic thought today. The most interesting outcome of this work is that if we assume some degree of correlation […]
