Browsing Economics by Subject "Constructive mathematics"

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    • Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities in a Mathematical Mode 

      Velupillai, K. Vela (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2006)
      The claim in this paper is that Sraffa employed a rigorous logic of mathematical reasoning in his book, Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities (PCC), in such a mode that all existence proofs were constructive. ...

    • The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in Economics. 

      Velupillai, K. Vela. (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)
      In this paper I attempt to show that mathematical economics is unreasonably ineffective. Unreasonable, because the mathematical assumptions are economically unwarranted; ineffective because the mathematical formalizations ...