The Missing Link
介绍群体传记学（一种通过收集和分析人物传记数据来研究历史社群的方法）在经济学史研究中的应用，通过实例展示其作为理解学术社群解释框架的潜力。
Prosopography, or less accurately collective biography, is a historiographical method that identifies and draws relationships between various people within a specific, well-defined historical or social context by collecting and analyzing relevant biographical data. Although it is a well-established method, it is novel to the history of economics. In this paper I argue that prosopography provides an interpretative framework for understanding academic communities and with the help of a number of examples I show where its potential lies.