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EHS Abstract Submission
(c) 1997 EH.Net
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Name: E. Roy Weintraub
Email: erw@econ.duke.edu
Institution: Duke University
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Title: Axiomatisches Mi_verstdndnis
Type of work: C
Internet Address
of abstracted work:
By mail:
Center for Social and Historical Studies of Science
Duke University, DPC 90097
Durham, North Carolina
27708-0097 USA
Language: English
Abstract:
Modern controversies over formalism in economics rest on misunderstandings
about the history of mathematics, the history of economics, and the history
of the relationship between mathematics and economics. Were the history
better understood, economists could spend their time doing economics instead
of complaining that economics should or should not be so mathematical or so
formal. An archeology of formalism in economics unearths increasingly
energetic and successful challenges to certain more or less traditional
or standard views about scientific truth/knowledge, and the development
of more or less successful alternatives in various quarters: the strata
are the emergent reconceptualizations of both science and knowledge.
Bibliography: The Economic Journal, to appear November 1998.
Subject: B23
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