How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (Science and Cultural Theory)
Автор:E. Roy Weintraub Год: [не указано] Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0822328712 In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. Roy Weintraub traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the twentieth century. As mathematics has evolved, so has the image of mathematics, explains Weintraub, such as ideas about the standards for accepting proof, the meaning of rigor, and the nature of the mathematical enterprise itself. He also shows how economics itself has been shaped by economists' changing images of mathematics. Whereas others have viewed economics as autonomous, Weintraub presents a different picture, one in which changes in mathematics?both within the body of knowledge that constitutes mathematics and in how it is thought of as a discipline and as a type of knowledge?have been intertwined with the evolution of economic thought. Weintraub begins his account with Cambridge University, the intellectual birthplace of modern economics, and examines specifically Alfred Marshall and the Mathematical Tripos...
