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Convergence in recent growth theories: a survey
Capolupo, Rosa - In: Journal of Economic Studies 25 (1998) 6, pp. 496-537
This paper reviews one of the crucial issues in the recent growth literature concerning the hypothesis of cross country convergence of levels and growth rates of income per capita implied by the neo‐classical growth model, both in the Solow‐Swan and Rampsey‐Cass‐Koopmans versions. The...
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4. Nobel Laureate: Simon Kuznets (1901‐1985)
Rugina, Anghel N. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 4, pp. 453-478
Claims Kuznets is a quantification economist, e.g. a statistician who used the theory of models to find answers to problems. Covers, in depth, Kuznets’ early Russian‐Jewish upbringing to his further development in the USA. Concludes that Kuznets recognized what was missing rather than what...
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7. Nobel Laureate: Wassily Leontief (1906‐1999)
Rugina, Anghel N. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 4, pp. 548-558
Focuses on Wassily Leontif’s early upbringing in St Petersburg (Leningrad), and his education at the university there. Continues with his various overseas postings that followed with time. Mentions his famous connection with the formulation and application of the input‐output method.
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On the possibility of quantitative‐mathematical social science, chiefly economics
Drechsler, Wolfgang - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) 4/5, pp. 246-259
Argues preliminarily that quantitative‐mathematical social science, including economics, is not possible because it …
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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) 4/5, 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 … and proceeds to reason for the broad definition of mathematics as it relates to the social sciences. The introduction also … sciences in the late 1700s. This is followed by a brief description of the state of mathematics at that time. Then follow …
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Mathematics in economics: the competition point of view
Ramos Silva, Joaquim - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) 4/5, pp. 326-337
, as opposed to concentrating on only one, is the best framework for the progress of economics. In particular, it increases …
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Mathematics in economics: the monopoly point of view?
Maks, Hans - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) 4/5, pp. 338-343
Describes how mathematics enjoyed a virtual monopoly as the privileged method of economic inquiry in the post … change, offering an insight into the role of mathematics.  …
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Full circle: economics from scholasticism through innovation and back into mathematical scholasticism
Reinert, Erik S. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) 4/5, pp. 364-376
economics is associated with the use of mathematics. Based on Francis Bacon’s criticism of scholasticism, it is argued here that … 1769 essay, economics has come “full circle”. The problem for economics is not then mathematics per se – mathematics is … scholasticism. A rational, quantified and mechanised world picture emerged. In 1769 an essay questioned why economics benefited so …
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Hermann Heinrich Gossen: a Wirkungsgeschichte of an ignored mathematical economist
Ikeda, Yukihiro - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) 4/5, pp. 394-415
Considers a Wirkungsgeschichte of Hermann Heinrich Gossen, focusing on the reactions of the three stars of the Marginal Revolution: William Stanley Jevons, Léon Walras and Carl Menger. Although Hermann Heinrich Gossen is today known as one of the forerunners of the Marginal Revolution, it was...
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The fate of new ideas: Hermann Heinrich Gossen, his life, work and influence
Meijer, Gerrit; Vogel, Richard F.A. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) 4/5, pp. 416-420
Böhm‐Bawerk). He was also one of the first to use (simple) mathematics in economics.  …
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