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Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
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Warren J. Samuels
Warren J. Samuels
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Jeff E. Biddle
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Ross B. Emmett
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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24 Part 1
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(2006)24_Part_1
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978-1-84950-444-7
ISBN print:
978-0-76231-349-5
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0743-4154
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2006
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Getting Hilbert right

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E. Roy Weintraub
E. Roy Weintraub
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E. Roy Weintraub
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2006
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https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(06)24011-2
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    2006
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2006

From the opening salvo of Benjamin Ward's (1972) What's wrong with economics to Henry Woo's (1986) What's wrong with formalization in economics to Mark Blaug's (1999) “The formalist revolution or what happened to orthodox economics after World War II?” the specter of mathematician David Hilbert has haunted economists's discussions of formalization and axiomatization.

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