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Historians of economics must forge links with their fellow historians of science. Economic historians should not be concerned with winning approval from economists, or with negative reactions from other science historians. The history of science is expanding to include more disciplines and much recent work has connected trends in economic history to trends within the whole of scientific history. Economic historians should consider their profession entirely worthwhile and should be content to let modelling be the province of economists. Several brief responses to this article are included.

The article presents a study of John Maynard Keynes as a historian of economic thought. It makes reference to his writings of biographical essays of neoclassical economists including Willam Stanley Jevons, Alfred Marshall and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. It analyzes the objectives of Keynes in writing about the personal lives of his subjects, the social environment, and philosophical views and how they have influenced in their study of economics. It evaluates the work in terms of literary excellence, aesthetics, and contribution in the research on the history of economic thought.