Greetings Economists, On Aug 19, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
This was reinforced by the shoving-aside of institutional economics by the rising mathematical school (led by SRPE-winner Paul Samuelson).
I agree with JD's comments and I add my own tangent. There is a wide spread lacuna or confusion over math and what it can do over language. For example in computing it is claimed that there are various coding languages. However the coding languages have no grammar in a language sense. Coding logic is closer knowledge process to mathematics than to language.
The reason to say this is there is strong evidence from strokes and other brain insults that math is distinct from language production. Each performs a knowledge process that can be destroyed independent of the other process in a stroke.
This information disambiguates the use of math in economics. Language is used to connect people in social and cultural networks, and math is used to build upon counting knowledge but not social connection. Language implies a shared skill set of connections, whereas math is independent of connection work as grammar implies in language.
Hence, a realistic assessment of Economics that uses math in a language like way is fundamentally in error. The disambiguation of the processes exposes the error in U.S. economics.
thanks, Doyle Saylor _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
