Philosophy of Mathematics and Economics : image, context and perspective
Thomas A. Boylan and Paschal F. O'Gorman
- London : Routledge, c2018.
- xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Routledge INEM advances in Economic methodology .
Philosophy of Mathematics and Economics re-analyses the divergent rationales for mathematical economics by some of its principal architects. Yet, it is not limited to simply enhancing our understanding of how economics became an applied mathematical science. The authors also critically evaluate developments in the philosophy of mathematics to expose the inadequacy of aspects of mainstream mathematical economics, as well as exploiting the same philosophy to suggest alternative ways of rigorously formulating economic theory for our digital age. This book represents an innovative attempt to more fully understand the complexity of the interaction between developments in the philosophy of mathematics and the process of formalisation in economics.