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SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A STRICTLY QUASI‐CONCAVE CONTINUOUS UTILITY FUNCTION? OR, HOMO ECONOMICUS, PART TWO‘
Author(s) -
Barnes Trevor J.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1991.tb01303.x
Subject(s) - homo economicus , suspect , function (biology) , ask price , philosophy , epistemology , mathematical economics , psychology , economics , positive economics , economy , biology , criminology , evolutionary biology
Those who have stuck with modelling since those heady days have largely been able to do so, I suspect, by restricting the nature of the questions they ask. (Harvey 1989, 212) One can imagine a world, perhaps, in which the growth of knowledge was interestingly philosophizable. But it doesn't seem to be our world. (McCloskey 1988, 245)