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Debreu on Danger of Over-Mathematization of Economics
From Debreu's Presidential Address before the American Economic Association:
In the past two decades, economic theory has been carried away further by a seemingly irresistible current that can be explained only partly by the intellectual successes of its mathematization.
Essential to an attempt at a fuller explanation are the values imprinted on an economist by his study of mathematics. When a theorist who has been so typed judges his scholarly work, those values do not play a silent role; they may play a decisive role. The very choice of the questions to which he tries to find answers is influenced by his mathematical background. Thus, the danger is ever present that the part of economics will become secondary, if not marginal, in that judgment. (p. 5)
Debreu, Gerard. "The Mathematization of Economic Theory." American Economic Review 81, no. 1 (1991): 1-7.
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