This essay discusses the implications for the evolution of mathematical economics of the ideas presented in E. Roy Weintraub's How Economics Became a Mathematical Science . A central issue in the discussion is the nature of formalism and axiomatization in mathematical economics, how that has...

In this paper, the author of How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (Duke University Press, 2002) responds to four papers (from Paul Davidson, Sheila Dow, Donald Katzner,and J. Barkley Rosser Jr.) written for a symposium on his book. In addition to specific responses to points raised by the...