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Heterodoks skepsis og matematisk formalisme : en metodologisk kommentar

Olesen, Finn - In: Ekonomiska Samfundets tidskrift 62 (2009) 2, pp. 75-82

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Resolució de problemes i mètode de raonament en l'educació matemàtica

Miralles de I., Joan; Paradís, Jaume - 2000

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Optimiohjausteoria ja variaatiolaskenta

Salo, Seppo - 1994

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Wild Duck : Empirische Philosophie der Mensch-Computer-Vernetzung

Dueck, Gunter - 2008 - 4

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Full circle: economics from scholasticism through innovation and back into mathematical scholasticism: Reflections on a 1769 Price essay: “Why is it that economics so far has gaine...

Reinert, Erik S. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 364-376

scholasticism. A rational, quantified and mechanised world picture emerged. In 1769 an essay questioned why economics benefited so … economics is associated with the use of mathematics. Based on Francis Bacon’s criticism of scholasticism, it is argued here that … strong parallels exist between the decay of scholasticism and the decay of modern economics. From being a science of practice …

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An engineer’s view of economics: Wilhelm Launhardt’s contributions

Backhaus, Ursula - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 424-476

in founding location theory but, beyond that, he contributed to the mathematical treatment of economics, labor economics …Wilhelm Launhardt (1832-1918) is a founder of mathematical economics. His main work, Mathematical Foundations of … Economics, published in 1885, was translated into English in 1993. As an engineer, he contributed to the field of not only …

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Heinrich von Storch’s concept of the use of mathematics in political economy

Backhaus, Jurgen G. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 377-381

Heinrich von Storch (1766-1835) can claim a very specific position in the history of political economy. Clearly steeped in Camaralist thought, due to his upbringing and later scholarly work in Russia, he was primarily interested in the nature and the causes of the wealth of a nation that he...

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Mathematics in economics: the monopoly point of view?

Maks, Hans - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 338-343

Describes how mathematics enjoyed a virtual monopoly as the privileged method of economic inquiry in the post-war period. Counters the argument that such a position generates negative consequences, such as monopoly rents and the abuse of dominant positions. Argues that competing schools of...

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Mathematics and the social sciences at the time of the modern beginnings of the social sciences

Senn, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 271-292

Surveys the use of mathematics in what are now commonly called the social sciences up to the time of the earliest use of the term “social science” in the late 1700s. Explains the rationale for the organization and structure of the paper and proceeds to reason for the broad definition of...

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On the possibility of quantitative-mathematical social science, chiefly economics: Some preliminary considerations

Drechsler, Wolfgang - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) September, pp. 246-259

Argues preliminarily that quantitative-mathematical social science, including economics, is not possible because it …

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