How Language Informs Mathematics
Subtitle: Bridging Hegelian Dialectics and Marxian Models
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9789004337305
Subjects: Hegel, georg wilhelm friedrich, 1770-1831; Marx, karl, 1818-1883; Economics, mathematical models; Marxian economics
Description: In 'How Language Informs Mathematics' Damsma shows how Hegel's and Marx's systematic dialectical analysis of mathematical and economic language helps us understand the structure and nature of mathematical and capitalist systems. More importantly, Damsma shows how knowledge of the latter can inform model assumptions and help improve models.0His book provides a blueprint for an approach to economic model building that does away with arbitrarily chosen assumptions and is sensitive to the institutional structures of capitalism. In light of the failure of mainstream economics to understand systemic failures like the financial crisis and given the arbitrary character of most assumptions in mainstream models, such an approach is desperately needed.