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The Fixed Point: A Review of John von Neumann’s Methodology

Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Title The Fixed Point: A Review of John von Neumann’s Methodology
 
Creator Kőhegyi, Gergely
 
Subject History of Science, History of Economic Thought
History of Science, Philosophy of Science, History of Economic Thoughts, John von Neumann, von Neumann Model, von Neumann’s Fixed Point Theorem, Holistic Scientific Methodology
 
Description This paper gives an overview of John von Neumann’s methodology and provides a criticism of the ’ordinary’ historical explanations concerning von Neumann’s writings. His broad multidisciplinary works are traditionally analysed within separate fields, completely detached from social and multidisciplinary context. This can often lead to oversimplified historical explanations. As an illustration I discuss a lesser-known article, which plays a central role in general economics in the postwar period. This is, however, the only one which concerns directly theoretical economics. I review the possible explanations concerning his motivations to write this article and propose a different historical approach to outline his exceptional train of thoughts.
 
Publisher Doctoral School of Sociology, Corvinus University Budapest
 
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Date 2013-11-19
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/75
10.14267/cjssp.2013.02.02
 
Source Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy; Vol 4, No 2 (2013)
2062-087X
2061-5558
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://cjssp.uni-corvinus.hu/index.php/cjssp/article/view/75/61