Reiss, Julian - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) 4/5, pp. 477-491
issue of whether mathematics is or is not an adequate language to express economic relationships. First, Menger’s and Jevons …’s thinking about mathematics. Third, these two “monogenetic” views are contrasted with Gustav Schmoller’s “polygenetic” approach … which holds that a purely deductive economics, based on a small number of self‐evident principles, is inadequate for social …