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Economic Science Wars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

E. Roy Weintraub
E. Roy Weintraub
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Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0097.
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It is not news that the history of economics is disesteemed by most economists. There have been almost annual discussions at professional meetings about the institutional role of the history of economics. Indeed, a conference in 2001 documented the precarious state of the field in North America, and its even more perilous position in the United Kingdom and the Antipodes (Weintraub 2002b). With the exception of Duke University there are no longer any regularly scheduled graduate courses, let alone programs, in the history of economics at any “top” university in North America (Gayer 2002).

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 2007 , pp. 267 - 282
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2007

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