Introducing Formalism in Economics: von Neumann's growth model reconsidered

Sandye Gloria-Palermo ()
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Sandye Gloria-Palermo: GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The objective is to interpret John von Neumann's growth model as a decisive step of the forthcoming formalist revolution of the 1950s in economics. This model gave rise to an impressive variety of comments about its classical or neoclassical underpinnings. We go beyond this traditional criterion and interpret rather this model as the manifestation of von Neumann's involvement in the formalist programme of mathematician David Hilbert. We discuss the impact of Kurt Gödel's discoveries on this programme. We show that the growth model reflects the pragmatic turn of the formalist programme after Gödel and proposes the extension of modern axiomatisation to economics.

Keywords: von Neumann; growth model; formalism; Gödel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-06-14
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Published in Panoeconomicus, 2010, 57 (2), pp.153-172

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