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9780822328568

How Economics Became a Mathematical Science

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822328568

  • ISBN10:

    0822328569

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-05-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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"The mathematization of economics is probably the most important development in the history of twentieth-century economics. This book provides fascinating accounts of important episodes in this process and should interest anyone who wants to understand how and why it took place."--Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Prologue 1(8)
Burn the Mathematics (Tripos)
9(32)
The Marginalization of Griffith C. Evans
41(31)
Whose Hilbert?
72(29)
Bourbaki and Debreu
101(54)
Negotiating at the Boundary (with Ted Gayer)
155(28)
Equilibrium Proofmaking (with Ted Gayer)
183(25)
Sidney and Hal
208(38)
From Bleeding Hearts to Desiccated Robots
246(10)
Body, Image, and Person
256(17)
Notes 273(18)
Bibliography 291(19)
Index 310

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