Weintraub, E. Roy.

How economics became a mathematical science / E. Roy Weintraub. - Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2002. - xiii, 313 p. ; 24 cm. - Science and cultural theory .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-309) and index.

Burn the mathematics (tripos) -- The marginalization of Griffith C. Evans -- Whose Hilbert? -- 4: Bourbaki and Debreu. Appendix to ch. 4: a conversation with Gerard Debreu -- Negotiating at the boundary (with Ted Gayer) -- Equilibrium proofmaking (with Ted Gayer) -- Sidney and Hal -- From bleeding hearts to desiccated robots -- Body, image, and person.

0822328569 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822328711 0822328712 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2001007280


Economics, Mathematical--History.
Económia, Matematica--Historia.

HB 135 / W424h 2002

330.0151