Infelizmente, também em Portugal a História do Pensamento Económico é cada vez mais negligenciada – remetida para disciplinas opcionais ou simplesmente ignorada – o que só pode ter como resultado a “formação” de alunos com cada vez menos sentido crítico e menor capacidade para compreender as origens, evolução, vantagens e limitações das ferramentas de análise económica que lhes são apresentadas: Adam Smith? Who’s He? It’s time to return the history of economic thought to the college curriculum. Por Bruce Caldwell.
When I did my graduate work in economics at UNC, the history of economic thought was one of the core classes that all students had to take. We read and studied the great economists of the past–Smith, Malthus, Marx, Marshall, Keynes–whose insights directed (and sometimes misdirected) the progress of our discipline. Things have changed dramatically since then. The history of economic thought has virtually disappeared from the graduate curriculum in the United States, and if current trends continue, in a few decades it will have disappeared from the undergraduate curriculum, as well.
This situation is deplorable. The history of economic thought constitutes an essential part of the broader liberal education of economists.





