Historians of economics are helping us understand how economic knowledge is made. In concert with trends from the sociology and history of science, historians meticulously examine the practices of economists. But as they have trained their attention to the scales and sites where those stories are told, historians have lost sight of the travels of knowledge beyond lecture halls and scholarly journal pages. To explore that terrain I propose we reconceive scientific practice as communicative action. By studying the social lives of books, pamphlets, and newsprint that cross back and forth the popular and scholarly divide, we can examine how economics participates in the making of mass culture.

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经济学——和历史——作为交流行动

经济学史学家正在帮助我们了解经济知识是如何产生的。与社会学和科学史的趋势相一致，历史学家仔细研究了经济学家的实践。但是，当他们将注意力集中在讲述这些故事的规模和地点时，历史学家已经忽略了讲堂和学术期刊页面之外的知识传播。为了探索这个领域，我建议我们将科学实践重新定义为交流行为。通过研究跨越流行和学术界线的书籍、小册子和新闻纸的社会生活，我们可以研究经济学如何参与大众文化的形成。