 | Wassily Leontief - 430 lapas
...for deductive reasoning. Many entered the field after specializing in pure or applied mathematics. Page after page of professional economic journals...precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions. Nothing reveals the aversion of the great majority of today's academic economists for systematic empirical... | |
 | Randy Pearl Albelda, Christopher Eaton Gunn, William Waller - 1987 - 362 lapas
...that he had ceased publishing in economics journals. In a letter to Science magazine Leontief wrote, "Page after page of professional economic journals...precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions." A good empiricist, Leontief tabulated recent articles in The American Economic Review. In the period... | |
 | G. Erickson, C.R. Smith - 1988 - 458 lapas
...reasoning. As a matter of fact, many entered the field after specializing in pure or applied mathematics. Page after page of professional economic journals...precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions". Instead of mathematics being a servant to this science it became the master, and the same thing has... | |
 | Walter L. Owensby - 1988 - 224 lapas
...economists. Wassily Leontief, one of the profession's notable mathematicians, complains, "Page after page of economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas...assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions."4 The purpose of these models is more to explain the economy than to remedy it. The central... | |
 | Herbert W. Simons, Trevor Melia - 1989 - 348 lapas
...president of American Economics Association and winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in economics, writes that "page after page of professional economic journals...precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions." " Leontief, a mathematical economist, is sufficiently discouraged to have ceased writing for the professional... | |
 | Simon Bromley - 1991 - 336 lapas
...Hahn, 'On the notion of equilibrium in economies'. 81 Cf. the following comment by Wassily Leontief: 'Page after page of professional economic journals...reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions', in his foreword to... | |
 | Jack D. Douglas - 1989 - 520 lapas
...former president of the American Economics Association concludes that the professional journals "were filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader...arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant conclusions."11 Most of these economists are aware of this and justify their work by arguing that it... | |
 | David Ehrenfeld - 1993 - 233 lapas
...economist and Nobel laureate: Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematics formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less...precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions. . . . Econometricians fit algebraic functions of all possible shapes to essentially the same sets of... | |
 | John Gowdy - 1994 - 268 lapas
...something very beautiful mathematically, but it was meaningless. (Mayr, quoted in Lewin 1982, p. 716) Page after page of professional economic journals...arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant conclusions. (Leontief 1982, pp. 104, 107) Mayr notes that most of the major thinkers in the philosophy... | |
 | Herman E. Daly - 1994 - 548 lapas
...not dare to speak up: "Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematics formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less...precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions . . . econometricians fit algebraic functions of all possible shapes to essentially the same sets of... | |
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Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions. 
