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MAKING UP HISTORY: A COMMENT ON PRATTEN 1
Author(s) -
Weintraub E. Roy
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2004.t01-1-00490.x
Subject(s) - formalism (music) , opposition (politics) , the imaginary , epistemology , mathematics , theoretical physics , mathematical economics , sociology , positive economics , physics , philosophy , economics , political science , law , psychology , art , literature , politics , musical , psychotherapist
Stephen Pratten's critique of mathematical formalism in the discipline of economics does not provide an adequate definition of formalism and his use of the term bears little resemblance to common mathematical usage. Furthermore, Pratten abuses the history of economics by inventing an imaginary tradition of opposition to formalism among Cambridge economists.