================= HES POSTING ====================== A good/brief treatment of "formalism" along the lines Roy just mentioned is Lionello Punzo's "The school of mathematical formalism and the viennese circle of mathematical economists" in the Spring JHET! *-------------------------------*------------------------------------------* | Brian Eggleston, Ph.D. | | | Associate Professor and Chair | "It is by invisible hands that we are | | Department of Economics | bent and tortured worst." | | Augustana College | | | Sioux Falls, SD 57197 | Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra | | [log in to unmask] | | *-------------------------------*------------------------------------------* ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]