Economics in contexts: towards a social history of economic thought
Nicolas Brisset
Published online: 07 Jun 2026
The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2026.2674638
摘要
本文为经济思想社会史提出论证，该社会史将 HET 重新定位于历史学（history）之内，而非经济学的一个附属分支。
本文主张，经济思想（economic ideas）并非自成一体的学说（self-contained doctrines），而是由制度、权力关系以及围绕权威的斗争所塑造的、处于历史情境中的干预（historically situated interventions）。
将斯金纳式语境主义（Skinnerian contextualism）与布迪厄的场域理论（Bourdieu’s field theory）相结合，本文提供了一个分析框架，用以分析思想如何在学术、专家、政治与公共场域中流通（circulate）。
两项案例研究 —— 维希政权下的法团主义经济学（corporatist economics）与金融建模的兴起 —— 展示了这一方法如何开启一项新的史学议程（a new historiographical agenda），并重新定义从历史角度研究经济学（study economics historically）的意义。
This article makes the case for a social history of economic thought that repositions HET within history rather than as a subsidiary of economics. It argues that economic ideas are not self-contained doctrines but historically situated interventions shaped by institutions, power relations, and struggles over authority. Combining Skinnerian contextualism with Bourdieu’s field theory, it offers a framework for analysing how ideas circulate across academic, expert, political, and public arenas. Two case studies—corporatist economics under Vichy and the rise of financial modelling—show how this approach opens a new historiographical agenda and redefines what it means to study economics historically.