In what follows, I use stylized facts derived from my own professional career as a member of the History of Economics Society (HES) and the history of economics (HE) community to document and illustrate the changing context of the subdiscipline over the past three decades.1 In the 1990s, the subdiscipline was comprised of a number of national communities. Among the latter the North American community held a dominant position and was quite different from its continental European counterparts, the French and Italian in particular.2 Not only were its academic culture and environment much more competitive but they were also more open to non-disciplinary history of economics.3 Over the past two decades, however, the growing domination of the continental European community has created a new context in which the identity of the North American community in general and that of the HES in particular has become uncertain.

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五十岁的他：身份危机和多元史学方法的需要

在下文中，我将使用来自我自己作为经济学史学会 (HES) 成员和经济学史 (HE) 社区成员的职业生涯中的程式化事实来记录和说明过去三十年来该学科的不断变化的背景。120 世纪 90 年代，该分支学科由多个国家团体组成。在后者中，北美社区占据主导地位，与欧洲大陆的同行，特别是法国人和意大利人有很大不同。2它的学术文化和环境不仅更具竞争力，而且对非学科经济学史也更加开放。3然而，在过去的二十年里，欧洲大陆社区日益增长的统治地位创造了一个新的背景，在这个背景下，整个北美社区，特别是HES的身份变得不确定。