Getting Hilbert right

Abstract

From the opening salvo of Benjamin Ward's (1972) What's wrong with economics to Henry Woo's (1986) What's wrong with formalization in economics to Mark Blaug's (1999) “The formalist revolution or what happened to orthodox economics after World War II?” the specter of mathematician David Hilbert has haunted economists's discussions of formalization and axiomatization.

Citation

Roy Weintraub, E. (2006), "Getting Hilbert right", Samuels, W.J., Biddle, J.E. and Emmett, R.B. (Ed.) Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 24 Part 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 181-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(06)24011-2