ABSTRACT
Being an economist has only gradually become a profession, and the various countries moved at different speeds. Benedetto Croce said that all history is contemporary history, in the sense that description and interpretation of the past are inevitably affected by the historian’s position in the present. Undoubtedly, contemporary history is even more contemporary, and economists and historians of economic thought are likely to have distinct opinions on the economic events and policies; also, they may have personally contributed to the debate they are to survey. The historiographical strategy has been to focus on specific subfields such as behavioral economics or the economics of information. Fine and Milonakis focus on the boundaries of economics in relation to the other social sciences, noting that the growth of the economics literature also reflects a qualitative expansion in terms of contents and fields of application.
