Introduction: rethinking urban economics from a conceptual standpoint -- Space and the city : the historical narrative in revisiting the nature and terms of urban development -- Social practice and the language of urban space -- The hidden axiom of mobility and the topological configuration of...

1. The fault line of axiomatization : Walras' linkage of physics with economics -- 2. The mathematical turn in economics : Walras, the French mathematicians, and the road not take -- 3. The arrow of time in economics : from Robinson's critique to the new historical ecnomics -- 4. Of puzzles and...

The fault line of axiomatization -- The mathematical turn in economics -- The arrow of time in economics -- Of puzzles and problems -- Economics pursuing the mold of evolutionary biology -- Economics as plausible conjecture -- Max Weber and the lost thread of historical economics -- Historical...

<italic>One of the pivotal moments in the move toward mathematizing economics occurred at the turn of the twentieth century, with Leon Walras as perhaps its most ardent champion. Yet, there is no small irony here, in that the leading French mathematicians to whom Walras turned to buttress and defend the...</italic>

The examination of economics from the standpoint of language and literature, part of the “linguistic turn” in economic methodology, may be extended and inverted by setting the literary elements of economics in historical perspective. In so doing, it will emerge that in the formative period...