TY - BOOK ID - 1886154 TI - Stabilizing dynamics : constructing economic knowledge PY - 1991 SN - 0521393469 0511571836 9780521393461 9780511571831 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Economic schools KW - Equilibrium (Economics) KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - AA / International- internationaal KW - 330.01 KW - Theorie van het economisch evenwicht. KW - Dynamics and statics (Social sciences) KW - Equilibrium (Social sciences) KW - Economics KW - Social evolution KW - Social sciences KW - Sociology KW - DGE (Economics) KW - Disequilibrium (Economics) KW - DSGE (Economics) KW - Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (Economics) KW - Economic equilibrium KW - General equilibrium (Economics) KW - Partial equilibrium (Economics) KW - SDGE (Economic theory) KW - Theorie van het economisch evenwicht KW - Équilibre (économie politique) KW - Business, Economy and Management KW - Statique et dynamique (sciences sociales) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1886154 AB - Today, economic theory is a mathematical theory, but that was not always the case. Major changes in the ways economists presented their arguments to one another occurred between the late 1930s and the early 1950s; over that period the discipline became mathematized. Professor Weintraub, a noted scholar of the modern history of economic thought, argues that those changes were not merely cosmetic: The mathematical forms of the arguments significantly altered the substance of the arguments. Stabilizing Dynamics is particularly concerned with the ways in which the rich and confusing talk of the 1930s evolved, over a fifteen-year period, into technical analysis of some mathematical structures. The author describes the context for the history of that change, locating it in the broader intellectual currents, and shows how the history of modern economics can be seen as a confluence of several disparate traditions. Historiographically, this book offers one of the first constructivist accounts of modern economic analysis. ER -