..., we refute a number of contentions and remarks by Blaug. We conclude with a plea for rigor and relevance. Correspondence may be addressed to [email protected] and [email protected] . We are grateful to Tony Aspromourgos, Pierangelo Garegnani, Christian Gehrke, Harvey Gram, Geoff Harcourt...

... with mathematical rigor. As a species of general equilibrium theory, Sraffian economics is indeed rigoros but it appears to be irrelevant to the sort of issues that concern modern economists. Correspondence may be addressed to Mark Blaug, Langsford Barn, Peter Tavy, Tavistock, Devon PL19 9LY, UK. I thank Roger...

....: MIT Press. Israel , Giorgio 1981 . “Rigor” and “Axiomatics” in Modern Mathematics. Fundamenta Scientiae 2 : 205 -19. Israel , Giorgio 1988 . On the Contribution of Volterra and Lotka to the Development of Modern Biomathematics. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 10...

... outmoded approaches to the philosophy of science. If we instead adopt the perspective of the so-called semantic view of theories, the trade-off between rigor and relevance naturally comes out as a possible characteristic of models we encounter in many scientific disciplines, with economics not being...

... economics into the BSP in a substantial manner, premised on the belief that economic analysis could be greatly strengthened by the behavioral science orientation, with its emphasis on rigorous empirical study of actual human behavior. Yet these efforts failed, in large part because economists, especially...

...Till Düppe During research seminars, it hardly ever happened that Gerard Debreu posed a question—and if he did, not without already knowing the answer. While some admired him for the tranquility of his austere rigor, others wondered how little he had to say in economics. To whatever effect, Debreu...

...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...

...: The Sraffian Interpretation of the Surplus Approach . HOPE 31.2 : 213 – 36 . ———. 2002 . Kurz and Salvadori on the Sraffian Interpretation of the Surplus Approach . HOPE 34.1 : 237 – 40 . ———. 2009 . The Trade-Off between Rigor and Relevance: Sraffian Economics as a Case in Point . HOPE 41.2...

...: J. J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moore . Providence, R. I.:American Mathematical Society. Richards, J. L. 1988 . Mathematical Visions:The Pursuit of Geometry in Victorian England . San Diego: Academic Press. ____. 1991 . Rigor and Clarity: Foundations of Mathematics in France...

... of doctrines involved were commonly labelled, by the respective opposition and by more-or-less neutral observers, as “rigorism” and “laxism.” Because the leaders on the rigorist side, who belonged to the group associated with the convent at Port-Royal, were disciples of Jansenius, a Louvain...

.... Hilbert, David. 1902 . Mathematical Problems. Lecture Delivered Before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900. Translated by Mary Winston Newson. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 8 : 437 -79. Israel, Giorgio. 1981 . “Rigor” and“Axiomatics” in Modern Mathematics...

..., ver- nacular economics is grounded in tacit, commonly shared assumptions and knowledge about economic processes” (Preda 2004, 354). In addition, it is “shabbier and not rigorous” and is “oriented toward solving everyday problems, [while] the academic variety is more concerned with elaborat...

... to George Stigler (1957) andPaul McNulty (1967). Both in RUP andin his article “Cost of Production andPrice over Long andShort Periods,” publishedin the same year, Knight defined the concept of perfect competition in rigorous terms andarguedfor a sharp separation of the theoretical from the em- pirical...

... modern standards of theoretical rigor and empirical relevance, while rigor in intel- lectual history requires the opposite—to resist the temptation to import modern theories and arguments into the past, and to see past writings as they are, products...

... consistent way; in his final view he concluded that Marshall's theory should be abandoned (Sraffa 1930 ). By contrast, Samuelson showed that partial equilibrium models may be used rigorously in some well-defined cases, and even in some slightly more general cases they produce results that are approximately...

... of a tautologically structured “design for the disclosing [of their] mind in the house of Commons . . . by collecting materials in writing” ([1740b] 1826, 3:173-74). The Norths knew that such an analytical “design” had to be composed of nothing less than rigorously defined analytical conceptual categories...

... with logical consistency, which is in fact a key feature in mathematics, as it rests at the basis of mathematical practices of rigor. From this perspective of a history of economics that has successfully and mainly focused on the applied and its interconnections with the histories of technocracy...

... profoundly with what they call “American free-tradism (emphasising theoretical free-market solutions)” (29). On the other side of the methodological divide,there has been the French tradition of “Cartesian rationalism,” as PM describe it, devoted to the search and claim for certainty and rigorous...

... of effective demand in chap- ter 7 actually arrive at insights that penetrate deeper than the Principles of Political Economy? Several of us have wrestled with the problem of presenting a rigorous version of Malthus’s argument and are aware of the difficulties. In Berdell’s recon- struction, the Malthusian...

... it be the commercialism of the Scottish ports? the intellectual links between the Scots and the French Enlightenment? the moderate Calvinism of the Scottish church? If it is to be all of them,how much weight should each context receive? For example,in writing about analytical rigor,Peil has neglected completely...