高橋誠一郎の経済学史研究は, 社会問題への関心と，それを解明する彼なりの姿勢のひとつとしての実証主義, すなわち, イデオロギー的先入主を排除しようとする周到な意図のもとに開始されたもので, それは, 師の一人であった福田徳三がすでに1900年代初頭にとった方法的意識と相通じるものであったといってよい。この姿勢は, 戦中の1943年の『古版西洋経済書解題』, そして, 戦後へと引き継がれた。高橋が英国留学中, 研究の場とした「ゴールドスミス図書館」の礎を造ったH. S. Foxwellが, 学問論的にA. Marshalに対抗し, 歴史主義的な方法の優位を主張したが, 高橋もまた経済学研究における歴史主義を貫いたといえよう。
Takahashi Seiichiro's research on the history of economics was developed based on his concern for social problems and his positivism toward seeking a way to elucidate these problems in his own fashion, in other words, his meticulous intention to eliminate ideological prejudices from research; it is fair to say that he shared in common with one his teachers, Tokuzou Fukuda, a methodological awareness that the latter had already grasped by the early 1900s.
This attitude was apparent in his "Old Version of Western Economic Bibliography," written during the war in 1943, and was succeeded after the war.
During his studies in the United Kingdom, Takahashi witnessed H.S. Foxwell, who built the cornerstone of the Goldsmith Library, Takahashi's own place of studies, and who academically opposed A. Marshal and argued for the superiority of a historicist methodology; it may be said that Takahashi also upheld his faith in historicism throughout his economic research.
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