{"id":431,"date":"2018-01-12T14:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.unipi.it\/tommaso_luzzati\/?p=431"},"modified":"2018-01-12T14:14:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T13:14:24","slug":"quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/tommaso_luzzati\/quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a\">It is a great fault of symbolic pseudo-mathematical methods of formalizing a\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">system of economic analysis\u2026that they expressly assume strict independence<\/span><span class=\"a\">\u00a0between <span class=\"l10\">the <span class=\"l7\">factors <span class=\"l9\">inv<span class=\"l8\">olve<span class=\"l6\">d and lose all their cogency and authority if this<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"a\">hypothesis is disallowed; whereas, in ordinary discourse, where we are not<\/span><span class=\"a\">\u00a0blindly <span class=\"l12\">manipul<span class=\"l6\">ating <span class=\"l9\">but know all <span class=\"l7\">the <span class=\"l8\">time what we <span class=\"l10\">are doing and what the<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"a\">words mean, we can keep \u2018at the back of our heads\u2019 the necessary reserves<\/span><span class=\"a\">and qualifications and the adjustments which we still have to make later on,<\/span><span class=\"a\">in a way which we cannot keep complicated partial differentials \u2018at the back\u2019<\/span><span class=\"a\">of several pages of algebra which assume that they all vanish. Too large a\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">proportion of recent \u2018mathematical\u2019 economics are mere concoctions, as<\/span><span class=\"a\">imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest upon, which allow the author<\/span><span class=\"a\">to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a\">maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.<\/span><span class=\"a\">(Ke<span class=\"l6\">ynes 1936:186)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a great fault of symbolic pseudo-mathematical methods of formalizing a\u00a0system of economic analysis\u2026that they expressly assume strict independence\u00a0between the factors involved and lose all their cogency and authority if thishypothesis is disallowed; whereas, in ordinary discourse, where we are not\u00a0blindly manipulating but know all the time what we are doing and what thewords [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senza-categoria"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"TOMMASO LUZZATI","author_link":"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/tommaso_luzzati\/author\/a009238\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>quotes - Tommaso Luzzati<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/people.unipi.it\/tommaso_luzzati\/quotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"quotes - Tommaso Luzzati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It is a great fault of symbolic pseudo-mathematical methods of formalizing a\u00a0system of economic analysis\u2026that they expressly assume strict independence\u00a0between the factors involved and lose all their cogency and authority if thishypothesis is disallowed; 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