2013年9月11日星期三

WEEK 2: Considering Delivery and Style





The scholarly article that I read about Economics field is "Why 

Mathematics in Economics?" by Katzner. The article provides four 

big elements about why mathematics is very important to

economics: 1. to make use of existing human capital; 2. to attain 

scientific respectability; 3. to help assure security with respect to 

claims of truth; 4. because economics was created primarily by 

Western economists to understand Western economic behavior. 



According to Katzner, he thought that "The of mathematics adds 

an aura of the scientific to economics in its enforcement of 

precision in the articulation of concepts and results, in its 

enhancement of clarification in the logical structure of argument, 

and in its creation of sharp delineation of the boundaries of the 

analysis as a whole" (Katzner 564). I agree with his concept of this 

point. mathematics is not only the tool that connect the 

explanation but also can precisely giving a conclusion because it is 

convincing and trusted. 



In my opinion, I think mathematics is more useful and convince 

tool to explain the economics' condition. It's better to using models 

to show the datas and truth than the texts.  We always need the 

figures and numbers to make a model. After that, we need to 

analysis the model. Thus, we need do some calculation to analysis 

the data on the model. Sometimes the numbers can better explain 

and show the truth. 







Work Cited 
Katzner. Donald W.  "Why Mathematics in Economics?" Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 25 (2003): 561-74. Print.

You can read the article "Why Mathematics in Economics" on this website: 
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4538849?

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