Historical evidence on how scholars have reacted to an enhanced role of mathematics in economics agrees with plausible theories about how people can be expected to react. Therefore, we should not be surprised to encounter quotations by Nobel Laureates and other eminent scholars that express...

Developing science does depend on special individuals. But it is the cooperative and competitive interplay of many contributors that makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Also understanding grows temporally in fits and starts. The 1750-1848 Age of Hume-Torrens-Ricardo-J. S. Mill was...