Boylan, T.A.; O'Gorman, P.F. - In: Journal of Economic Surveys 21 (2007) 3, pp. 426-446
In this paper we address a number of issues in the historiography and methodology of the formalization of economics in the twentieth century. We argue that Debreu's approach to formalism pursuing his Bourbakist programme was based on Hilbert's version of finitism. The latter project attempted to...