In this paper we investigate Werner Stark’s sociology of knowledge approach in the history of economic thought. This paper explores: 1) the strengths and weaknesses of Stark’s approach to historiography, 2) how this can frame an understanding of mercantilist writings, and 3) the development of a link between a pluralist understanding of economics and the sociology of knowledge approach. The reason for developing this link is to extend the sociology of knowledge approach to encompass a pluralist understanding of economic theorizing and, at the same time, clarify the link between context and economic theory. John Maynard Keynes’s practice of building narratives of intellectual traditions as evidenced in The General Theory is used to develop a position between an understanding of history of economic thought as the evolution of abstract and decontextualized economic theorizing and the view of economic theory as relevant only within the social conditions from which it arose.

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W. 斯塔克、JM 凯恩斯和重商主义者

在本文中，我们研究了维尔纳·斯塔克在经济思想史上的知识社会学方法。本文探讨：1) 斯塔克史学方法的优点和缺点，2) 这如何构成对重商主义著作的理解，以及 3) 在对经济学的多元理解与知识社会学方法之间建立联系。建立这种联系的原因是为了扩展知识社会学方法，以涵盖对经济理论化的多元理解，同时澄清两者之间的联系语境和经济理论. 约翰梅纳德凯恩斯建立知识传统叙事的实践一般理论被用来在将经济思想史理解为抽象的和脱离语境的经济理论的演变与将经济理论视为仅与它产生的社会条件相关的观点之间建立一个立场。