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"Roy Weintraub retells the history of twentieth-century economics through a series of engagements-duels of intellect and imagination-between individual members of two scientific communities: the mathematicians and the economists. A totally original, idiosyncratic, and highly personal account which illuminates brilliantly not just how economics became mathematized, but how mathematics cut free from the objects of science."-Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics and University of AmsterdamWeintraub, E. Roy is the author of 'How Economics Became a Mathematical Science' with ISBN 9780822328711 and ISBN 0822328712.
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