Will Economics Ever Have a Past Again?
引用库恩的观点，指出经济学教育将经济学史视为一个子领域，如同劳动经济学或公共财政，但这种做法割裂了学科与自身历史的联系，可能扭曲对过去的理解。
The sciences are unique among creative disciplines in the extent to which they cut themselves off from their past, substituting for it a systematic reconstruction.... Such reconstruction is a precondition for the cumulative image of scientific development familiar from science textbooks, but it badly misrepresents the past. —Thomas Kuhn, The Road since Structure (1987) From the curricula they construct, economists apparently regard the his-tory of economics as a subdisciplinary field within economics, sym-metric as a subfield with labor economics, public finance, or economic development. Indeed, that perspective is instantiated in the Journal of Economic Literature subject classification system. Based on their ped-agogy, economists appear to believe that one studies core subjects to become socialized as an economist; then one masters several fields of specialization for teaching purposes; and finally one selects a problem in one of those fields in which to become a specialist as a scholar or