As I point out in my JHET article on this topic, THE history of astrophysics is live physics and is taught in some astronomy departments:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1855968

As i have argued in recent work, within economics Womack's Kuhnian rhetoric about the relationship between a 'science' and its history has  it's origins in George Stigler's writings and teachings: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1628102

 (Stigler got it from Parsons and Merton, among others: 
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1584611>).

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On Dec 8, 2010, at 18:41, "Womack, John" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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?