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American economists by and large take the methodological position of neoclassical assumptions about individual behavior, general equilibrium assumptions about systemic behavior, and the assumption of "mathematicization" as a model for how knowledge results ought to be formulated.

French sociology as a distinctive tradition Daniel Little 2009

American economists by and large take the methodological position of neoclassical assumptions about individual behavior, general equilibrium assumptions about systemic behavior, and the assumption of "mathematicization" as a model for how knowledge results ought to be formulated.

Archive 2009-04-01 Daniel Little 2009

That Spinoza did not himself provide the mathematicization of his notion of motion-and-rest that would render his theory of body non-circular and sufficiently clear to be understood (or imagined) does not entail that this cannot be done.

Spinoza's Physical Theory Manning, Richard 2006

There’s an econ school that did anticipate the meltdown, that eschews mathematicization in favor of actual thought, that unlike the neoclassical mainstream actually does consistently favor free markets: namely, the Austrians.

The Volokh Conspiracy » A New Soros Initiative on the Economics Profession? 2009