I Wish I’d Written That
16 December 2009 at 5:44 pm Peter G. Klein 1 comment
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Arnold Kling on PAS:
[P]rior to Samuelson’s formalization in economics, there were a lot of papers published that lacked clarity and insight. Now that formalization dominates, we also see a lot of papers that lack clarity and insight. If you compare the most insightful mathematical papers with the average non-mathematical papers, math wins. But one can also run the comparison the other way and reach the opposite conclusion.
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Thus Passes Samuelson « A (Budding) Sociologist’s Commonplace Book | 17 December 2009 at 11:06 am
[…] impact on the field of economics, here’s a paragraph by Arnold Kling (hat-tip to Organizations and Markets): [P]rior to Samuelson’s formalization in economics, there were a lot of papers published that […]