经济学怎样成了一门“数学科学”——经济思想史的一种简要考察  

How Economics Becomes a “Science of Mathematics”——A Brief Examination to The History of Economic Thought

作　　者：贾根良[1] 徐尚[1] 

机构地区：[1]中国人民大学经济学院,北京100872

出　　处：《南开学报（哲学社会科学版）》2005年第5期108-115,共8页Nankai Journal:Philosophy,Literature and Social Science Edition

基　　金：国家社会科学基金项目(05BJL044);教育部"新世纪优秀人才支持资助计划"

摘　　要：19世纪70年代的边际革命导致了以瓦尔拉斯和杰文斯为代表的所谓数理学派的诞生,这是经济学中数学形式主义最早的重要尝试。但在19世纪末到20世纪之交,它遭到了当时主流经济学的强烈反对。然而,随着形式主义数学的兴起和实证主义科学哲学在社会科学中逐渐获得统治地位,反对数学形式主义的观点衰落了。因此,在20世纪30年代到60年代,西方经济学界发生了数学形式主义的革命。通过这场革命,20世纪末的西方主流经济学在很大程度上已经被改造成了一门无视经济现实的“数学科学”。Emerged in 1870s as a result from the heterodox revolution, the mathematic school represented by Valras and Javons stands for the earliest important mathematic formalist attempt in economics. However, by the turn of the 19th and 20th century, it was strongly opposed by the dominant economics at the time. Now that formalist mathematics grew up as well as positivist scientific philosophy achieved its hegemony step by step in social sciences, positions against mathematic formalism waned. Hence from 1930＇ s to 1960＇ s, Western economics witnessed a revolution of mathematic formalism through which the roan stream of Western economics at the end of the century by and large was reformed into a “mathematic science” in the price of economic reality.

关 键 词：数学形式主义 数学 本体论 实在论 

分 类 号：F091.3[经济管理—政治经济学]