) claims to follow and expresses some serious doubt that econometrics in particular can make economics a hard science …This paper argues that mainstream economics does not follow the positivist research tradition it (often implicitly …. Mathematical rigour and sophisticated statisti-cal techniques may be regarded as persuasive analytical tools in economics, but …

The Handbook of Mathematical Economics aims to provide a definitive source, reference, and teaching supplement for the … field of mathematical economics. It surveys, as of the late 1970's the state of the art of mathematical economics. This is a … students working in one branch of mathematical economics to become acquainted with other branches of this field. Volume 1 deals …