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“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of…

— Thomas Piketty

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science…

— William Stanley Jevons

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty

Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable…

— James R Newman

We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for…

— Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

“The mathematical economists have commonly been mathematicians first and economists afterward, disposed to oversimplify the data and underestimate the divergence between their premises and…

— Frank H. Knight

“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often…

— Thomas Piketty

Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author…

— John Maynard Keynes

...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at…

— Thomas Piketty

Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding…

— Mark Blaug

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

— William Stanley Jevons

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a…

— Herbert A. Simon