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Elegance in Economics
Duhs, Alan - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 9, pp. 3-10
Elegance in economic modelling is one determinant of the professional acceptability of “scientific” contributions to the economics literature. Just what determines the profession′s definition of “elegance” is a question less frequently asked. Social economists commonly appeal to...
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Mathematics and academic finance: the role of paradigms
Ardalan, Kavous - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) April, pp. 276-290
Purpose – Any adequate analysis of the nature of mathematics and its role in sciences necessarily requires fundamental … understanding of the world views underlying the views expressed with respect to the nature and role of mathematics. Aims to discuss … four general views with respect to mathematics and its role in sciences, corresponding to four broad worldviews. Design …
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The mathematical language of academic finance: a paradigmatic look
Ardalan, Kavous - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 3, pp. 187-204
Any adequate analysis of the nature and role of the mathematical language in finance necessarily requires fundamental …, interpretive, radical humanist, and radical structuralist. It looks at the current state of mainstream academic finance and notes …
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Mathematics and academic finance: the role of paradigms
Ardalan, Kavous - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) 4, pp. 276-290
Purpose – Any adequate analysis of the nature of mathematics and its role in sciences necessarily requires fundamental … understanding of the world views underlying the views expressed with respect to the nature and role of mathematics. Aims to discuss … four general views with respect to mathematics and its role in sciences, corresponding to four broad worldviews. Design …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805266
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On Rugina’s system of thought
Smarandache, Florentin - In: International Journal of Social Economics 28 (2001) 8, pp. 623-647
This article investigates Rugina’s orientation table and gives particular examples for several of its seven models. Leon Walras’s Economics of Stable Equilibrium and Keynes’s Economics of Disequilibrium are combined in Rugina’s orientation table in systems which are s percent stable and...
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A model for the Smarandache anti‐geometry
Torretti, Roberto - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 11, pp. 876-886
The Smarandache anti‐geometry is a non‐euclidean geometry that denies all Hilbert’s 20 axioms, each axiom being denied in many ways in the same space. In this paper, one finds an economics model to this geometry by making the following correlations: a point is the balance in a particular...
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The Epistemic‐Ontic Circular Causation and Continuity Model of Socio‐scientific Reality The Knowledge Premiss
Alam Choudhury, Masudul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 1, pp. 3-18
Undertakes an epistemological formulation of ethico‐economics. This formulation challenges the neo‐classical and macroeconomic foundations of mainstream economics and then presents the rigorously analytical depths of ethico‐economics. Traces the developments, the praxis of the rational...
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Economics and mathematics: recent views on a controversial relationship
Agiomirgianakis, George M.; Mavrommatis, Yiannis E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 25 (1998) 10, pp. 1565-1571
In recent years, the use of mathematics in modern economics has generated criticisms, both from the profession …
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An inquiry into the disposition of Chinese agriculture
Zhang, Dongxue - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) May, pp. 388-407
Purpose – To obtain an understanding of the disposition of Chinese agriculture. Design/methodology/approach – By applying econometric methods to make a narrow assessment on several productive factors in Chinese agriculture covering most of the era of Reforms and openness, a picture...
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Do Value Judgements Affect Testing Economic Theory?
Beed, Clive - In: International Journal of Social Economics 19 (1992) 2, pp. 6-24
Analyses the influence of value judgements in the mechanics of testing econometric theories against empirical data. The orthodox view of mainstream, positive economics is that value judgements play no part in the above process. Contests this view; defines value judgements and shows the orthodox...
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