Mathiness in context : Richardson, Solow and Mirrlees debate the uses of math in urban economics in the 1970s

The dispute In 1973, Harry W. Richardson, a urban economist at the University of Kent, expressed concern about “some uses …

A History of the JEL Codes : the Making of the “Microeconomics” and “Macroeconomics” Categories [Part 3]

During the 1930s, members of the Econometric Society such as Tinbergen or Fleming, increasingly came to use a slightly transformed version …