Philosophy.

Gerd Gigerenzer is currently Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam.

Economics is the study of social phenomena which occur in the course of human efforts to produce wealth, isolated from other social phenomena.

In his 1998 essay entitled Two Cheers for Formalism, economist Paul Krugman defends the use of mathematics in economics.

Lazear (2000) claims that economics is the dominant branch of social science and that its influence has expanded in recent decades.

Gerard Debreu (1991) estimates that the year 1944 could be considered a turning point for the use of mathematics in economics.

This article summarizes the views of various economists on using the methodology of (orthodox) economics in neighboring disciplines such as law and political science.

In an 1829 or 1830 essay entitled On the Definition of Political Economy and Method of Investigation Proper to It, John Stuart Mill articulates his views on what political economy is and how…

In a 2007 article, Caltech neuroeconomist Colin Camerer makes his case for the role of neuroscience in economics.

In his influential 1932 An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, Lionel Robbins articulated what is referred to as the scarcity definition of economics.