Possibility of the History of Economic Thought in Modern Economics

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24653055
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Economic doctrine/Economic thought
• Research Institution: Aoyama Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: FUJII Kenji 青山学院大学, 国際マネジメント研究科, 教授 (20189989)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 学史研究の危機

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Modern Economics has flourished and diverged into so many branches that no historian of Economic Thought can get even a rough sketch of how economics in last two decades. It is evident that conventional method of history of Economic Thought which pays attention on a few major economists. We tried to seek an alternative way for the discipline. We tentatively have got a conclusion that instead of dealing with individual writers we need to describe schools which have risen, followed and dwindled or perished. To do so, it might be fruitful to borrow some conceptions and logic from evolutionary economics.

Free Research Field

経済学史