How Economics Became a Mathematical Science
1st Edition
Published on 28. May 2002
328 pages
978-0-8223-8380-2 (ISBN)
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Discusses the history of 20th century economics, and how it has become dominated by mathematical approaches.
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E. Roy Weintraub is Professor of Economics at Duke University. He is the editor of Toward a History of Game Theory, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of numerous books, including Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge.
Content
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Burn the Mathematics (Tripos)
2. The Marginalization of Griffith C. Evans
3. Whose Hilbert?
4. Bourbaki and Debreu
5. Negotiating at the Boundary (with Ted Gayer)
6. Equilibrium Proofmaking (with Ted Gayer)
7. Sidney and Hal
8. From Bleeding Hearts to Desiccated Robots
9. Body, Image, Person
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Prologue
1. Burn the Mathematics (Tripos)
2. The Marginalization of Griffith C. Evans
3. Whose Hilbert?
4. Bourbaki and Debreu
5. Negotiating at the Boundary (with Ted Gayer)
6. Equilibrium Proofmaking (with Ted Gayer)
7. Sidney and Hal
8. From Bleeding Hearts to Desiccated Robots
9. Body, Image, Person
Notes
Bibliography
Index
