Eric Schliesser wrote: “But there is no doubt that there are very few professional philosophers in the English
speaking world who also work in history of economics. Here are a few names that …”

I think it is misleading to count the number of HET scholars in a few universities in the English speaking world
and be disappointed by the fact that there is only a few out there publishing in the history and philosophy of
economics. Scholars in “smaller” econ departments in and *around* the US and Europe are still doing research in
a HET-related field. And the quality of their papers is as a high as those published by their peers. Perhaps,
“smaller” departments (incl. liberal art colleges), which barely appear in citation indexes, are often better
places for high quality scholarship.

(BTW: Papers published in HET journals are not totally and fully non-mainstream, are they? At least, HET papers
do not always have such a concern as revealing the names of “‘scientists’ in the past [who] got matters in their
disciplines so stupidly, disastrously wrong.” So being less in numbers is perhaps a rewarding strategy.)

Regards,

Altug

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Altug Yalcintas, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Ankara University
06590 Cebeci Ankara Turkey
http://ayalcintas.blogspot.com/