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Author Weintraub, E. Roy, author

Title How economics became a mathematical science / E. Roy Weintraub
Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages)
Series Science and cultural theory
Science and cultural theory.
Contents Burn the mathematics (tripos) -- The marginalization of Griffith C. Evans -- Whose Hilbert? -- 4: Bourbaki and Debreu. Appendix to ch. 4: a conversation with Gerard Debreu -- Negotiating at the boundary (with Ted Gayer) -- Equilibrium proofmaking (with Ted Gayer) -- Sidney and Hal -- From bleeding hearts to desiccated robots -- Body, image, and person
Summary Discusses the history of 20th century economics, and how it has become dominated by mathematical approaches
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-309) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Economics, Mathematical -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
Economics, Mathematical
Economische filosofie.
Wiskunde.
Economia matemática (história)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822383802
0822383802
1282920359
9781282920354
9786612920356
6612920351