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Is Economics Entering its Post-Witchcraft Era?

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Potgieter, Petrus H.
Rosinger, Elemér E.
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Recently, an awareness is emerging in economics about the fact that important problems are not solvable algorithmically, that is, by any finite number of steps. This statement can be made mathematically exact and this paper reviews the contributions that have been made in this regard, related to standard topics in economics.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 3340.

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Date of creation: 25 May 2007
Date of revision: 22 Oct 2007
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Keywords: Computability economics general equilibrium theory Arrow's impossibility theorem Debreu's theorem Game Theory Malleus Maleficiarum

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