Byline: Manuel Buitenhuis
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The History of Mathematics in Economics: What we can learn about the crisis
This contribution is the final post in the four-part blog series on the history of mathematics in economics. For the first post on Philip Mirowski’s account of Irving Fisher, which also introduces the series, click here. For the second post on Marcel Boumans’s study of Jan Tinbergen, click here. For the third post on E.…
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The History of Mathematics in Economics III: Debreu, or How the Truth is in the Mathematics
This contribution is the third post in the four-part blog series on the history of mathematics in economics. For the first post on Philip Mirowski’s account of Irving Fisher, which also introduces the series, click here. For the second post on Marcel Boumans’s study of Jan Tinbergen, click here. The previous contributions in the series…
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The History of Mathematics in Economics II: Jan Tinbergen, Paul Ehrenfest and Formal Analogies
This contribution is the second post in a four-part blog series on the history of mathematics in economics. For the first post, which also introduces the series, click here. My previous contribution on Mirowski painted a grim picture of the role of mathematics in economics: Irving Fisher, one of the saints of neoclassical economics, had…
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The History of Mathematics in Economics I: Mirowski, Fisher and the Conservation of Energy
As the dust settles in the aftermath of the economic crisis, we are left to contemplate the nature of the shock that hit us in 2008. Much of the initial debate concerned the ethics of the financial sector: many of the world’s most powerful institutions had been at best naïve and at worst thoroughly perverted…