Mathiness in the Theory of Economic Growth.
Mathiness lets academic politics masquerade as science. Like mathematical theory, mathiness uses a mixture of words and symbols, but instead of making tight links, it leaves ample room for slippage between statements in the languages of words as opposed to symbols, and between statements with theore...
| Publicado en: | American Economic Review Vol. 105; no. 5; pp. 89 - 94 |
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