Bourbaki's Destructive Influence on the Mathematization of Economics
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Keywords
Bourbakism; Polish School of Mathematics; Hilbert’s Dogma; Debreu; Mathematical Economics.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B23 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Econometrics; Quantitative and Mathematical Studies
- C02 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - Mathematical Economics
- C69 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Other
- D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2012-02-01 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-HME-2012-02-01 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-HPE-2012-02-01 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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