I have advocated in print (one may recall my 2008 JHET article) that history of 
economics may find a home within philosophy departments (especially because 
there is a lot of shared history between philosophy and economics). 

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 spring to mind (with affiliation and major research area):
Erik Angner (Alabama) Hayek; Jordi Cat (Indiana) Neurath; Thomas Uebel 
(Manchester) Neurath; Margaret Schabas (UBC) Hume/Smith; Stephen Turner (USF) 
Max Weber/Parsons are among the few who keep returning to history of economics. 
(Of course, there are quite a few Adam Smith & Mill scholars within philosophy, 
but most of these are really not so interested in economics.)
Kevin Hoover can also be included in this list. 

 Brian Weatherson (Rutgers--one of the top ranked department in the world) was 
briefly interested in Keynes/Ramsey.
In Europe David Teirra (Madrid) Chicago; Jack Vromen (Rotterdam) evolutionary 
economics; Uskali maki (Friedman's methodology essay) can also be included.
No doubt we can add a few more. But I agree with Alain that for the time being 
this is not a very promising survival strategy.
Eric
BOF Research Professor, Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University, 
Blandijnberg 2, Ghent, B-9000, Belgium. Phone: (31)-(0)6-15005958
http://www.newappsblog.com/
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=649484
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From: Alain Alcouffe <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sat, February 26, 2011 5:47:16 PM
Subject: Re: [SHOE] FW: [SHOE] application for an assistant professor 
position-Milan (Italy)

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

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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.