Abstract: Facing the dilemma and defect of the traditional history of economic thought subject, western historians of economic thought have started a new research field：history of economics community. The history of economics community is a institutional and sociology research on the economics practice activity, taking all kinds of communities in the economics field as its object, and taking the production mode of knowledge, structure of institution, process of knowledge transmission and its both within and out of these communities, and aims at reviving and reflourishing the history of economic thought subject, reflecting on the practice activity of economists, and promoting the pluralism reform of economics, which comes into being a new branch subject of history of economic thought.

Key words: history of economic thought , history of economics community , research object , research purpose

摘要： 面对传统经济思想史学科的困境与缺陷，西方经济思想史家们开辟了一个新的研究领域——经济学学界史。经济学学界史是对经济学实践活动的制度和社会学研究，它以经济学领域中不同类型的学术共同体为研究对象，重点研究这些共同体内外的知识生产方式、制度结构、知识传播过程及其影响，并以复兴和繁荣经济思想史学科、反思经济学家们的实践活动、推动经济学发展多元化改革等为研究目的，形成了经济思想史学科的一个新的分支学科。

关键词: 经济思想史 , 经济学学界史 , 研究对象 , 研究目的