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================= HES POSTING =================
Roy Weintraub urges historians of economics to raise their standards of
scholarship. Jonathon Mote, in reply, asks how economics students are to be
expected to learn the appropriate standards for history given the lack of
incentives to pursue the history of economics.
There is a potential institutional answer to Mote's question. Economics
departments could farm out the teaching of history of economics to the
history department, for example, or to the local multidisciplinary history
of science program. But no current student will want to wait for
institutional responses.
Rather, the interested student should enroll in appropriate history of
science courses taught by scholars of high standards (preferably for both
scholarship and teaching). Take advantage of your graduate program's
allowance for course work in other departments, typically 6 or 9 credit
hours, or do it even if it won't count toward your degree if the situation
warrents.
As an alternative, read well-regarded histories of science --lots of them--
and attend to the details of their construction. In either case, follow
through by seeking out competent review of your own work, as suggested in
Brad Bateman's recent note.
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Michael Giberson
Graduate student in economics
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia USA
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