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There is a clear distinction between the History of Ideas and Intellectual
History. In its broad sweep, though not in the detail of its execution,
Schumpeter's HISTORY OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS is a history of
ideas. The history of ideas does not have a political dimension. That
is it does not have political movements and events as an external
referent in its mode of procedure. Schumpeter was correct on this
showing, if what I understand is being said of Schumpeter is correct.
But a question remains as to whether the History of Economics is a
subdiscipline of the History of Ideas or of Intellectual History.
Robin Neill
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