Le 25/02/2011 17:28, Womack, John a écrit :

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I think the best revenge may be to join or create a department or program of the history of sciences, to work alongside historians of chemistry, biology, physics, etc., who now try to understand historically why very smart "scientists" in the past so often got matters in their disciplines so stupidly, disastrously wrong.

Revenge ? Really?
The same kind of situation exists in France and history of economics is also downgraded and/or excluded from curriculums, hence positions for historian of economics are becoming fewer and fewer. But if we consider the number of positions for historians of sciences (aactualy the category encompasses epistemology, history of sciences and techniques), there are only 76 while positions for economists are around 1900. That's why I am convinced that the future of history of economics depends upon safeguarding positions in economics.