ABSTRACT
This essay reflects on historiographical questions related to the fact that we write history of that which is still remembered by living persons. At a theoretical level, I propose a framework that is necessary for fully embracing the presence of the personal in science: the scientific self, a concept at the center of what I discuss as lived epistemology. Trying to write histories of the economist’s self, in practical terms, raises questions of harmony and conflicts of interests. I argue that the question of bias that overshadows the historiography of the contemporary is a Scheinproblem that emerges if one avoids the ethical questions of these conflicts of interests.
