This text is a small essay about the study and the practic of the Economic History, specially aiming the students in the first years of the Economics courses. Its objective is a contribution to the understanding of a difficult area of Economics, but where in Brazil we have had few but great masters such as Caio Prado Jr. and Celso Furtado. We begin by a discussion of its areas consecrated to the Economic Thinking to detain ourselves in the contribution of the Marxist thinking in a reflection about Economic History. Finally, we make some considerations about the economic formation in Brazil and its actuality in a way to stimulate the debate.
Economic history; Economic thought