Stabilizing Dynamics
Constructing Economic Knowledge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9712405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Wade Hands (0000-0001-5914-8948) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 413 |
| Pages | 953 |
| Publication date | 1992-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge, E Roy Weintraub, 1991 |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2234591 |
| OpenAlex | W2146700318 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Today, economic theory is a mathematical theory, but that was not always the case. Major changes in the ways economists presented their arguments to one another occurred between the late 1930s and the early 1950s; over that period the discipline became mathematized. Professor Weintraub, a noted scholar of the modern history of economic thought, argues that those changes were not merely cosmetic: The mathematical forms of the arguments significantly altered the substance of the arguments. Stabilizing Dynamics is particularly concerned with the ways in which the rich and confusing talk of the 1930s evolved, over a fifteen-year period, into technical analysis of some mathematical structures. The author describes the context for the history of that change, locating it in the broader intellectual currents, and shows how the history of modern economics can be seen as a confluence of several disparate traditions. Historiographically, this book offers one of the first constructivist accounts of modern economic analysis
Dynamics (music · Economics · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions
From Lotka's biophysics to Georgescu-Roegen's bioeconomics
Richard Cantillon’s stabilizing market dynamics
Political economy and public policy
“Rise and Fall” of the Walrasian Program in Economics
Grey» Importation over the Russian-Chinese Border
History and (general) equilibrium
On the Transition from Long-period to Short-period Equilibria
Epistemic participation
Psychologie individuelle et stabilité d'un équilibre général concurrentiel dans le Traité d'économie pure de Maurice Allais
Reply to Peter Mueser
Geography and the pragmatic tradition
Transitions
Conjecturizing” Cournot
From warfare to welfare
Paul Samuelson and Revealed Preference Theory
Introduction
Five Decades of Hope
Disequilibrium Dynamics and Aggregate Excess Demand
After the Revolution
In the Kingdom of Solovia
Paul Samuelson's Historiography
Behavioral Economics
The Solow Residual as a Black Box
Friedrich List and the Economic Fate of Tropical Countries
General Equilibrium Theory Behind the Iron Curtain
Edwin B. Wilson and the Rise of Mathematical Economics in America, 1920-40
Economics as Plausible Conjecture
Toward a History of Economics at Mit, 1940-72
What to Conclude from Psychological Experiments
Habits and Expectations
Other Histories of Recent Economics
The Pure and the Applied
An Equation and its Worlds
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |