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History of Political Economy (1994) 26 (2): 279–296.
Published: 01 June 1994
.... J.A.F. 3 : 142 -62. (J., F.) Dormoy , E. 1880 . Nécrologie: Hippolyte Charlon J.A.F. 9 : 6 -10. Fisher , I. 1892 . Bibliography of mathematico-economic writings. In Fisher 1925. Fisher , I. [1892] 1925 . Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices...
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History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (suppl_1): 54–68.
Published: 01 January 1993
... © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Interpreting the Triumph of Mathematical Economics Theodore M. Porter 1. Mirowski and the Metaphysical Hubris of Economists To me, a historian, Philip Mirowski’s More Heat than Light seems a dazzling historical critique of neoclassical...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (2): 229–259.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Juan Carvajalino In this article, Edwin B. Wilson’s influence on the rise of mathematical economics in America between the 1920s and 1940s is explored. The focus is laid on showing how, based on his foundational ideas about science, Wilson worked at the organizational and educational fronts...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (1): 170–173.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Vincent Carret [email protected] Communist Planning versus Rationality: Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China . Edited by János Mátyás Kovács . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2022 . vii; 416 pp. $125.00 . Copyright 2024 by Duke...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 417–440.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Matheus Assaf Abstract This article studies the entanglements of mathematical economics in Brazil by delving into the emergence of a scientific community identified with the subject at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA). It traces how networks built since IMPA's early years...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 467–488.
Published: 01 June 2024
... in the mathematization of economics: John von Neumann, Leonid Kantorovich, and Albert W. Tucker. The fact that Kantorovich was in contact with von Neumann and his closest colleagues, Solomon Lefschetz and Garrett Birkhoff, is hardly appreciated in the histories of mathematics and mathematical economics. Their brief...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 375–391.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Juan Carvajalino; Thomas Michael Mueller Abstract This essay introduces a special issue of History of Political Economy titled “Local Entanglements in the History of Mathematical Economics.” The articles in the special issue share a particular historiographical approach, characterized by the name...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (suppl_1): 57–85.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Schumpeter, 1914–1960 , Harvard University Archives . Mirowski P. 1989 . The Probabilistic Counter-Revolution, or How Stochastic Concepts Came to Neoclassical Economic Theory . Oxford Economic Papers , n.s. , 41.1 : 217 – 35 . ———. 1991 . The When, the How, and the Why of Mathematical...
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History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (2): 205–240.
Published: 01 June 2003
... . The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation . Chicago:University of Chicago Press. Cournot, Augustin. [1838] 1995 . Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth . San Diego: James & Gordon. Creedy, John. 1986 . Edgeworth and the Development of Neoclassical Economics . London:Blackwell...
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History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (4): 777–779.
Published: 01 November 1999
...Robert W. Dimand James P. Henderson and Harvey Becher. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. xxvi; 327 pp. $69.50. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Darnell , Adrian , ed. 1991 . Early Mathematical Economics . London: Pickering & Chatto...
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History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (2): 205–240.
Published: 01 June 2003
... . The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation . Chicago:University of Chicago Press. Cournot, Augustin. [1838] 1995 . Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth . San Diego: James & Gordon. Creedy, John. 1986 . Edgeworth and the Development of Neoclassical Economics . London:Blackwell...
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History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (2): 324–325.
Published: 01 June 1985
..., methodological or otherwise, let alone pro- jecting some new “vision” of subject matter familiar to historians of economic thought. University of Nebraska-Lincoln W. E. KUHN Early developments in mathematical economics. Second edition. By Reghinos D. Theocharis...
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History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (3): 763–765.
Published: 01 September 1992
... profession with a refreshingly new perspective on the Jevonian Revolution. Schabas’s intent is to assess, using a historical perspective, the extent to which economic theory is “amenable to mathematical analysis” (6). Her position is that Jevons’s program for mathematical economics did not rely...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (5): 823–858.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Juan Carvajalino Abstract This article shows, based on archival material, where and how von Neumann's mathematical economics evolved from the realization around 1932 that there existed a formal analogy between economics and games to the conviction in 1940 that the analogy between homo economicus...
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History of Political Economy (1976) 8 (3): 436–437.
Published: 01 September 1976
... KARENI. VAUGHN The Mathematical Revolution in Soviet Economics. By Alfred Zauberman. London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. 62. $9.00. The raison d’Ctre of this very short and very expensive volume is to provide a nontechnical insight...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (2): 181–215.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of statistical and mathematical tools to practical problems. Once in administration, former students disseminated economic knowledge through research seminars and scientific articles (Bungener and Joël 1989 ). The approach of these “French marginalists” or “econometricians” aligned with US postwar neoclassicism...
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History of Political Economy (2004) 36 (1): 212–214.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Agents. In Mod- els of Monetary Economics, edited by J. H. Kareken and N. Wallace, 265–313. Minneapolis: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. How Economics Became a Mathematical Science. By E. Roy Weintraub. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. 313 pp. Cloth $54.95; paper $18.95...
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History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (suppl_1): 83–117.
Published: 01 January 1993
... 1993 Part 2 Economic Problems and Mathematical Formalism Neoclassical Economics as Mathematical Metaphysics Jack Birner Scholars disagree about the origin of the name of Aristotle’s book Meta­ physics. Does it refer to the content of the book, “that which goes beyond physics...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 441–466.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Yann Giraud Abstract Although the subject of numerous contributions in the history of economics, the use of theoretical diagrams by economists is still quite misunderstood, as this practice is often characterized as a basic form of mathematization, soon replaced by more rigorous techniques...
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History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (4): 643–677.
Published: 01 November 2007
... A. Marino, 209 -28. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Drechsler, Wolfgang. 2000 . On the Possibility of Quantitative-Mathematical Social Science, Chiefly Economics. Journal of Economic Studies 27.4-5 : 246 -59. Drummond, John. 1792 . Mr. Drummond's Letter to the Editor. In A Political...