Full circle: Economics from scholasticism through innovation and back into mathematical scholasticism: Reflections on a 1769 Price essay: "why is it that economics so far has gained so few advantages from physics and mathematics?"

Journal of Economic Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 364-376

  Reinert, Erik S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Economics; History; Mathematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 53149098011     PISSN: 01443585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443580010341862     Document Type: Article

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