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Mathematical Economics (mathematical + economics)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	40%

Selected Abstracts

The Seligman-Edgeworth Debate About the Analysis of Tax Incidence: The Advent of Mathematical Economics, 1892,1910

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, Issue 1 2010
Laurence S. MossArticle first published online: 20 JAN 2010
First page of article [source]

A Reader's Companion to Against Prediction: A Reply to Ariela Gross, Yoram Margalioth, and Yoav Sapir on Economic Modeling, Selective Incapacitation, Governmentality, and Race

LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY, Issue 1 2008
Bernard E. Harcourt
From parole prediction instruments and violent sexual predator scores to racial profiling on the highways, instruments to predict future dangerousness, drug-courier profiles, and IRS computer algorithms to detect tax evaders, the rise of actuarial methods in the field of crime and punishment presents a number of challenging issues at the intersection of economic theory, sociology, history, race studies, criminology, social theory, and law. The three review articles of Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age by Ariela Gross, Yoram Margalioth, and Yoav Sapir, raise these challenges in their very best light. Ranging from the heights of poststructuralist and critical race theory to the intricate details of mathematical economics and criminological analysis, the articles apply different disciplinary lenses to the analysis of the actuarial turn offered in Against Prediction and set forth both substantive and structural challenges to the book. By means of a detailed reply to the three reviews, this article provides a reader's companion to Against Prediction. [source]

Mathematics in Economics: An Austrian Methodological Critique

PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS, Issue 1 2010
Robert Wutscher
Even the briefest and most superficial perusal of leading mainstream economics journals will attest to the degree that mathematical formalism has captured the economics profession. Whereas up to the early 20th century virtually all of the output of the dismal scientists was in the literary format, by the early 21st century this is not at all any longer the case. Mathematical formalism is supposed to serve economics, and yet now true economic insight has been crowded out by the math. If mainstream neoclassical economics is to come back to its proper path, a far less central role for mathematical economics, statistics and econometrics will have to be fashioned. [source]

Publications in mathematical economics and econometrics: ranking of Asian universities and an application of Zipf's law

ASIAN-PACIFIC ECONOMIC LITERATURE, Issue 2 2009
Jang C. Jin
This paper ranks Asian universities in two related economics fields: mathematical economics and econometrics. Key findings are that Japanese universities dominate in mathematical economics, while Hong Kong universities are fairly evenly balanced in these two specialty areas of quantitative economics. The results of the analysis also show that Zipf's law applies to research-based university rankings. [source]