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Since the 2008 crisis, historical interest has returned to economic subjects, from a wide variety of new perspectives. This course offers a new approach to the history of economic thought: not an internal history of the development of economic ideas based on the sequential reading of canonical theorists, but rather a history of the practice of economics, modeled on approaches found in the history of science. It focuses on the development of economics as a field of policy and governance, on economics as a formalized academic discipline, as well as on the sociology of knowledge and the construction of economic data and variables. Its coverage begins in early modern Europe, but the bulk of the class is focused on the history of modern economics since the 1870s, understood as a mathematized, policy-oriented, formalized academic epistemic community.

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