The Pioneers’ Arguments for Formulating Economic Problems Mathematically

dc.contributor.author	Sandelin, Bo
dc.date.accessioned	2015-10-27T14:36:51Z
dc.date.available	2015-10-27T14:36:51Z
dc.date.issued	2015-10
dc.identifier.issn	1403-2465
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/40891
dc.description	JEL: B41, C00	sv
dc.description.abstract	The nineteenth century pioneers in formulating economic problems mathematically often felt that they needed to explain their reasons for using mathematics. We will look at the arguments of Cournot, Thünen, Gossen, Jevons, Walras, Edgeworth, Marshall, Fisher, Wicksell, and Pareto. Three main arguments can be found: First, mathematics provides greater clarity of presentation, secondly, economics is fundamentally similar to the mathematical natural sciences, especially physics, and third, mathematics can help economists themselves to control the reasoning in their analysis.	sv
dc.format.extent	17	sv
dc.language.iso	eng	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Papers in Economics	sv
dc.subject	History of economic thought	sv
dc.subject	economic methodology	sv
dc.subject	mathematics	sv
dc.subject	marginalism	sv
dc.title	The Pioneers’ Arguments for Formulating Economic Problems Mathematically	sv
dc.type	Text	sv
dc.type.svep	report	sv
dc.contributor.organization	Dept. of Economics, University of Gothenburg	sv