Introduction: rethinking urban economics from a conceptual standpoint -- Space and the city : the historical narrative in revisiting the nature and terms of urban development -- Social practice and the language of urban space -- The hidden axiom of mobility and the topological configuration of...

1. The fault line of axiomatization : Walras' linkage of physics with economics -- 2. The mathematical turn in economics : Walras, the French mathematicians, and the road not take -- 3. The arrow of time in economics : from Robinson's critique to the new historical ecnomics -- 4. Of puzzles and...

Economists have often aligned the field of economics with physics; in the process seeking to enhance the rigor of economics by mathematizing it. In the late nineteenth century there was no more ardent champion of this view of what economics should become than Leon Walras. His own writings,...