CIPEI endorses a view point aimed at studying:
– the evolution and the different periods of the economic debate, following both in methodology and historiography an approach of institutional history,
– the professionalization of economists,
– the divulgation, circulation and dissemination of economic ideas.
Using a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective the scope of CIPEI broadens to the history of all those disciplines that study economic phenomena from different perspectives (legal, political, sociological, historical, geographic, statistical and demographic, business, etc.).