Methodological Landscape of the History of Economic Thought: New Historiographical Alternatives and Opportunities

Abstract

The article deals with the analyses of the modern history of economic thought methodology. The study traces the causes, which led to the loss of dominance of the proponents of absolutist interpretation of the history of economic thought in historiography. The factors that led to the expansion of the methodological arsenal used by the historians of economic thought at the turn of XX–XXI centuries are determined. The author attempts to systematize the content of the key approaches to the study of the history of economic thought. The article reveals the main advantages and disadvantages of the most widespread present time methodological principles of studying the history of economic thought and examines the prospects to achieve historiographical consensus.