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McCarthyism and the Mathematization of Economics

Weintraub, E. Roy - 2016

Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists' engagements with other disciplines—e.g. mathematics, statistics,...

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McCarthyism and the mathematization of economics

Weintraub, Eliot Roy - 2016

Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists’ engagements with other disciplines – e.g. mathematics, statistics,...

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McCarthyism and the mathematization of economics

Weintraub, Eliot Roy - 2016 - Version: February 19, 2016

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Advances in the mathematization process of Brazilian Academic Studies in Economics since the 1980s

Silva Luperi, Mauricio Martinelli - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 2-18

Looking at Brazilian economic discourse, in this article, we look at how mathematization of economics has advanced in …,733 articles were analyzed. We attempt to see how mathematization of economic discourse developed, and found that there was an … mathematization through the observation of a quantitative variable: equations per article. …

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Advances in the mathematization process of Brazilian Academic Studies in Economics since the 1980s

Luperi, Mauricio Martinelli - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 2-18

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On Excessive Mathematization, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Philosophical bases for Real World Knowledge

Bouleau, Nicolas - HAL - 2011

escape from the addiction of mathematization while building a better quality knowledge. We will take in a number of examples …

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Criticizing the critique. Some methodological insights into the debate on the state of economic theory in the face of the post 2008 crisis

Hardt, Łukasz - In: Bank i Kredyt 41 (2010) 4, pp. 7-22

The aim of this paper is to investigate the current debate on the state of economics from a methodological perspective. We claim that the majority of contributions criticizing modern economics are not based on clear methodological principles and thus many of them are not correct. We show this...

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¿Axiomática o empirismo? Sobre el uso de las matemáticas en economía

Páez, Nestor Rubiano - In: Revista de Economía Institucional 11 (2009) January-June, pp. 271-286

The basis of this essay, which analyzes the use of mathematics in economics, is the supposed dilemma between axiomatics and empiricism. The proponents of formalist axiomatics hold that economic phenomena should be explored and expressed with the language of mathematics, because mathematics is a...

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Current trends in the historiography of economics

Brzezinski, Michal - In: Politická ekonomie 2004 (2004) 4, pp. 543-560

This paper surveys some ongoing changes in the historiography of economics. I argue that there is a close connection between a decline of prescriptive economic methodologies based on the positivist philosophy of science and the emerging tendency to write history of economics in a non-Whig way....

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