Can someone much more steeped than I am in the field of "the history of economics" explain the difference, if any, between this field and the history of economic thought?
A related point, or opinion: So long as the economists who now dominate the profession in the realms of Judeo-Christian civilization continue to dominate it, they will think they are doing "science," their sense of which makes history irrelevant, simply a fuss over past error, a diversion from the quest for the ultimate function. Does any Physics or Math department offer courses in the history of Physics, or Math?