Since the 1980s there has been a renewed interest in attempts to introduce a sense of history into economic literature … time. Many of these notable contributors argue that the study of the history of economic thought is important in two ways … history and secondly, because it helps us to understand the present state of economics as being itself the outcome of a path …

policy, growth theory, environmental economics, technical change and the history of economic thought and methodology. The … the history of economic thought, discussing the writings of David Ricardo, the German historical school, Herbert Robinson … in the history of economic thought or in empirical subjects such as the policy implications of studies of labour markets …

throughout the many and varied fields of economics including heterodox economics, micro- and macroeconomics, history of economic …