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Simple mathematics in simple economic modelling
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2016
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Mathematics has had a profound influence on economic theory within the last 25 years, and many well known economists started their higher education in mathematics. Alfred Marshall and John Maynard Keynes, for example, were both Wranglers at Cambridge; we also know that Adam Smith—whose Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations was published just over 200 years ago—studied logic and mathematics at Glasgow; and, more recently, some scholars have come to regard Karl Marx as one of the ‘giants’ in the history of mathematical economics.
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