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Title: How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (Science and Cultural Theory) by E. Roy Weintraub ISBN: 0-8223-2871-2 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Summary: Essential to understanding HET
Comment: E. Roy Weintraub investigates the relationship between the development of mathematics and economics. He argues that by ignoring that mathematics too is a changing field, historians of economic thought have missed important distinctions. In clarifying the strange relationship between Marshall and mathematical methods in economics he shows how this distinctions give new, important insights. He traces the story of the mathematician Griffith C. Evans and his attempt to do mathematical economics like physics with quantifyable data (influenced by Volterra). In his next chapter he looks at Hilberts influence in mathematics, which is distinct from his impact on metamathematics. Having set the stage for abstract formalisms, he investigates how Gerard Debreu has brought the views of Nicolas Bourbaki, a important abstractionist movement, into economics.
The following two chapters aim to clarify the differences between mathematical and economic culture. As an illustration, he gives a account of a unfruitful correspondence between Don Patinkin and the eccentric mathematician, Cecil Phipps, who also was influencial in the puplication of the famous existence proof of Arrow and Debreu.
After this, Weintraub get's personal and tells the story of his economist father and mathematician uncle and how economics become a topic for well trained mathematicians. Weintraub also tells his own story of a economist turned mathematician as a example of a large inflow of mathematicians into economics.
The last chapter is dedicated to methodological issues.
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Title: Machine Dreams Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science by Philip Mirowski ISBN: 0521775264 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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Title: Economics As Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond by Robert H. Nelson, Max L. Stackhouse ISBN: 0271022841 Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Death of Economics by Paul Ormerod ISBN: 0471180009 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: More Heat than Light : Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics by Philip Mirowski, Craufurd D. Goodwin ISBN: 0521426898 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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Title: A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America. by Michael A. Bernstein ISBN: 0691042926 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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