Description
Book SynopsisDiscusses the history of 20th century economics, and how it has become dominated by mathematical approaches.
Trade Review“Roy Weintraub retells the history of twentieth-century economics through a series of engagements—duels of intellect and imagination—between individual members of two scientific communities: the mathematicians and the economists. A totally original, idiosyncratic, and highly personal account which illuminates brilliantly not just how economics became mathematized, but how mathematics cut free from the objects of science.”—Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam
“The mathematization of economics is probably the most important development in the history of twentieth-century economics. This book provides fascinating accounts of important episodes in this process and should interest anyone who wants to understand how and why it took place.”—Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Prologue
1. Burn the Mathematics (Tripos)
2. The Marginalization of Griffith C. Evans
3. Whose Hilbert?
4. Bourbaki and Debreu
5. Negotiating at the Boundary (with Ted Gayer)
6. Equilibrium Proofmaking (with Ted Gayer)
7. Sidney and Hal
8. From Bleeding Hearts to Desiccated Robots
9. Body, Image, Person
Notes
Bibliography
Index
