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Too many sources, too less text. The same issue as with some other economic articles here. What is the point of adding 20 sources of single sentence? Or maybe a template should be done for this situation for sources cleanup. --Aleksd (talk) 17:47, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Ways of improving Economic methodology might include expanding the topics in the text that are footnoted using the footnoted or related sources to develop into a paragraph or 2 each. General references might also be used as a basis of organizing paragraphs or sections, such as, from the footnote 1 references:

In the meanwhile, the footnoted sources might be consulted, starting with the links. No one "owns" this article of course. And anyone who studies good sources may be in a good position to improve this article. Best wishes. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 20:08, 29 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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the role of mathematics and mathematical economics in economics. Please add:


The systematic use of mathematical methods in economics took place with the emergence of the late nineteenth-century marginalism. The development and gradual establishment of marginal utility theory were associated with the adoption of mathematics as a basic instrument of economic analysis. Most marginalist economists were also convinced that the adoption of a mathematical approach would make economics an exact science like the physical sciences (Mirowski, 1984; 1989; 1991; Schabas, 1990). The prestige of physical sciences was also thought to contribute to the establishment of a positive, value-free economic science (Drakopoulos, 1997). For instance, Jevons argued that the theory of economy presents a close analogy to the science of statical mechanics (Jevons, 1871, p.viii). Similarly, Leon Walras believed that the use of mathematics would make pure economics a science of absolute exactness like physics or mechanics (Walras 1871, pp. 47-48). The Austrian Carl Menger also thought that economics can be as exact as the physical sciences (Menger 1879, p. 218). This methodological trend continued in the works of the second generation marginalists. In his main work Mathematical Psychics (1881), the second generation marginalist F. Y. Edgeworth provides a very systematic methodological grounding for the use of mathematics in the study of social phenomena and of the methodological ideal of physics. Irwin Fisher, who is considered to be one of the most important promoters of marginalism in America, also played a key role for the adoption of mathematical formalism (Fisher, 1892). According to many specialists, Irving Fisher, accomplished the most thoroughgoing mathematization of marginalist theory (e.g. Breslau, 2003; Zouboulakis, 2003). In line with Edgeworth, his methodological viewpoint is focused on the direct analogy between economics and physics. The extensive use of mathematical methods became standard especially after the appearance of Samuelson’s influential publications (1938; 1947). Subsequently, the works of von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944), and of Arrow–Debreu general equilibrium model (1954), further established the use of mathematical methodology in economic theory (Debreu, 1991; Rashid, 1994). Today, the high degree of mathematization of contemporary mainstream economics has been the subject of much debate which focuses on the nature and method of the discipline (see for instance, Beed and Kane, 1991; Dow, 2002; Weintraub, 2002; Drakopoulos and Katselidis, 2015).

References Mirowski, P. (1984) Physics and the ‘marginalist revolution’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 8: 361-379. Mirowski, P. (1989). More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature’s Economics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Mirowski, P. (1991). The When, the How and the Why of Mathematical Expression in the History of Economic Analysis, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5(1), Winter, 145-157. Schabas, M. (1990) A World Ruled by Number. William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics, Princeton: Princeton University Press. Drakopoulos, S. A. (1997) Origins and development of the trend towards value-free economics, Journal of the History of Economic Thought 19: 286-300. Jevons, W. S. (1871) The Theory of Political Economy, London: Macmillan Walras, L. (1871)[1965) Elements of Pure Economics, transl. by W. Jaffe, London: Allen and Unwin. Menger, C. (1879) [1963] Problems of Economics and Sociology, (translated by F. Nack), Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Edgeworth, F. Y. (1881) Mathematical Psychics: An Essay of the Application of Mathematics to Moral Sciences, London: Kegan Paul. Fisher, I. (1892) [1965] Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices, New Haven: Yale University Press. Breslau, D. (2003) Economics invents the economy: mathematics, statistics, and models in the work of Irving Fisher and Wesley Mitchell, Theory and Society 32: 379-411. Zouboulakis, M. (2003) L’ équation des échanges de Fisher et la loi de Boyle. Les limites de l’analogie physique en économie, Économies et Societés, 33(12) : 2191-2206. Samuelson, P. (1938) A note on the pure theory of consumer’s behavior, Economica, 5: 61-71. Samuelson, P. (1947) Foundations of Economic Analysis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. von Neumann, J. and Morgenstern, O. (1944) Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour, Princeton: Princeton University Press. Arrow, K. and Debreu, G. (1954) “Existence of an equilibrium for a competitive economy”, Econometrica, 22: 265–290. Rashid, S. (1994) “John von Neumann, Scientific Method and Empirical Economics”, Journal of Economic Methodology, 1(2): 279-294. Debreu, G. (1991) The mathematization of economic theory, American Economic Review, 81(1): 1-7 Beed, C. and Kane, O. (1991) What is the critique of the mathematization of economics?, Kyklos, 44: 581-612. Weintraub, E.R (2002). How Economics Became a Mathematical Science, Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press. Dow, S. (2002) Economic Methodology: An Inquiry, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Drakopoulos, S.A. and Katselidis, I. (2015). From Edgeworth to Econophysics: a Methodological Perspective, Journal of Economic Methodology. 22(1): 77-95.


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  • Reference 1: Drakopoulos, Stavros A. & Katselidis, Ioannis, 2012. "The Development of Trade Union theory and Mainstream Economic Methodology," MPRA Paper 39239, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  • Reference 2: Drakopoulos, Stavros A. & Katselidis, Ioannis, 2013. "From Edgeworth to Econophysics: A Methodological Perspective," MPRA Paper 46975, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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"the role of experiments in economics[13]" -- perhaps a useful reference to add in [13] is Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules by Nicholas Bardsley, Robin Cubitt, Graham Loomes, Peter Moffatt, Chris Starmer & Robert Sugden; http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9074.html


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  • Reference : D Nosenzo & Jon Anderson & Stephen V Burks & Jeffrey Carpenter & Lorenz Gotte & Karsten Maurer & Ruth Potter & Kim Rocha & Aldo Rustichini, 2012. "Self-Selection and Variations in the Laboratory Measurment of Other-Regarding Preferences Across Subject Pools: Evidence from One College Student and Two Adult Samples," Discussion Papers 2012-14, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham.

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