“It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 38.
“Economics is the most human of sciences. It is the science of wants and frustrations. It is psychology subject to the abstract, amplifying forces of mathematics.”
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Ian McDonald
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The Dervish House
Source: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 2, §8 (p. 72)
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