Contemporaries tend to question certain belief systems including academic systems of knowledge. Paradigms evolve to become a subject of inquiry. The need to acknowledge history of economic thought as a neglected but important domain of economic inquiry as an important discussion topic. During recent decades, history of economic thought has largely been abolished and has disappeared from many contemporary teaching curricula in economics. The article argues that our academic understanding of economics is incomplete if we do not respect history and understand the social embeddedness of economic institutions and social behaviour. Of course, one must distinguish between history of intellectual ideas and economic history. Both items have to be discussed separately when assessing methodological appropriateness and benefits. The argumentation is based on the work of Joseph A. Schumpeter who dealt in detail with the question why and how to deal with historiography as a tool of proper economics in his substantial introduction to the 1945 book History of Economic Analysis .

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作为分析工具的经济思想史：为什么必须承认过去的知识分子是未来的灯塔

同时代人倾向于质疑某些信仰体系，包括学术知识体系。范式演变成为研究的主题。需要承认经济思想史是一个被忽视但重要的经济调查领域，是一个重要的讨论话题。近几十年来，经济思想史在很大程度上已被废除，并从许多当代经济学教学课程中消失了。文章认为，如果我们不尊重历史，不了解经济制度和社会行为的社会嵌入性，我们对经济学的学术理解是不完整的。当然，人们必须区分思想史和经济史。在评估方法的适当性和益处时，必须分别讨论这两个项目。