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How do "mathematical economists" view the Austrian rejection of math?

Murray N. Rothbard · 0:41 · Recorded 13 July 2009

How do "mathematical economists" view the Austrian rejection of math? by Murray N. Rothbard is a free audio lecture (0:41) at freecapitalists.org, recorded 13 July 2009, part of the 16-lecture series Austrian Theory.

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0:00If you read, for example, one of the most repellent and odious works written on von Boehm-Bawerk by Stiegler, George Stiegler, his Ph.D. dissertation called Productivity, Production and Distribution Theories, where he has a chapter on Menger, a chapter on von Boehm-Bawerk, he really didn't like Menger, but he hated von Boehm-Bawerk, all bad people hate von Boehm-Bawerk, he's the key, and when he said von Boehm-Bawerk, wow, he said he didn't understand mathematics, basically that's it, unfortunately, these guys did understand, both Menger and von Boehm-Bawerk were trained in mathematics, they understood it all too well, This, of course, the idea of knowing mathematics and rejecting its application economics does not even occur in the mathematical economics. It's just outside their kin. It's an unthinkable thought.

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