经济历史学派（Historical school）是以德国为主的经济学学派，虽然该学派主张以研究历史作为研究人类知识和经济的主要来源，因为他们认为文化的特性是无法全球化的、而且也会随著时间地点而改变。这种概念抛弃了将经济学理论视为是普世定理的概念。他们认为经济学应该要经历严格的分析研究、而非哲学的逻辑推理。经济历史学派的特色是重视实际现实，而非自我设计的数学模型。经济历史学派在工业化时期也极为关注社会改革和大众生活的改进。
德国历史学派从大量的经济史料中抽象出了许多有价值的经济学理论，是第一个基于经济史的经济学流派。
The German Historical school, drew some valuable economic theories form the studies of the economic history, was the first economics school that based on the studies of economic history.
传统经济学把财富视为经济人效用函数的唯一变量，这早就受到历史学派和制度学派的批驳。
Traditional economics regards fortune as the only variable of utility function, which has been critiqued by new historical school and institutional economic school.
像二战后以法国年鉴学派和美国新经济史学派为代表的新史学就是在努力将历史学作为科学来加以建构的。
Like the Second World War the French Annales School and the United States were represented by the new economic historians of the new history is history in the effort to be constructed as a science.
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