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JHET INTERVIEWS: E. ROY WEINTRAUB

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Abstract

The following is a transcription of a 2019 conversation with Duke historian E. Roy Weintraub about his intellectual development over the 1980s from mathematician to economist to historian. The conversation also explored Weintraub’s early and continuing attempts to forge new ways to study the history of contemporary economics, and the role of science studies in providing a natural language for such explorations. A French translation has already been published in the journal Zilsel: Science, technique, société.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , December 2022 , pp. 642 - 665
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the History of Economics Society

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Footnotes

A French translation of this interview, with added annotations for non-history of economics scholars, was first published in the October 2021 issue of Zilsel: Science, technique, société. We thank the editors, Jérôme Lamy and Arnaud Saint-Martin, for their kind permission. Also, we would like to thank Maxine H. Borjon for the transcription of this interview.

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