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Re: Mark Blaug and belief in models
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Nicola Giocoli <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 16 Nov 2014 09:12:57 +0000
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Should we then start calling it "the Samuelsonian disease" (from Paul Samuelson's famous "mathematics is language" dictum)? 

I know the use of models is not the same thing as the use of math (just read von Neumann's "The mathematician"), but a good catchphrase may help. Other suggestions?

Nicola Giocoli
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