The genesis, execution and completion - hopefully in a successful mode - of the event to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the public life of the MONIAC is outlined in this paper. A concise summary of the various contributions in this Special Issue of Economia Politica is also included.

In this paper I try to argue for the desirability of analog computation in economics from a variety of perspectives, using the example of the Phillips Machine. Ultimately, a case is made for the underpinning of both analog and digital computing theory in constructive mathematics. Some conceptual...

The Hahn–Banach Theorem plays a crucial role in the second fundamental theorem of welfare economics. To date, all mathematical economics and advanced general equilibrium textbooks concentrate on using non-constructive or incomputable versions of this celebrated theorem. In this paper we argue...