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I feel that in the current economic research, mathematical formalism is rampant, and boring modeling usurps the essence of economics. what do you think?
Can economics become a science? This is the basic reason why many economists adopt mathematics. Mathematics seems to be the representative of science.

Everyone knows the mathematization of physics, chemistry and other natural disciplines. Without mathematics, the research of physical chemistry cannot be carried out.

Economics started with economist Cournot, and everyone found that economic laws can be expressed more concisely in mathematical language, so many economists even tried to prove the correctness of their research results from a mathematical perspective. If it can't be proved mathematically, the correctness of economic research results is debatable. The results are obvious, and many obvious results also need us to demonstrate their scientific nature from a mathematical point of view.

Of course, there are also correct economic research results that have been proved by mathematics in later generations, that is, economic research results are expressed in language, but mathematical proof cannot be given. It was later proved to be correct from a mathematical point of view.

Mathematics is just a tool for the current study or research of economics, so don't focus on mathematics, but pay attention to the conclusion.

In addition, theoretical research needs hypothesis, which is only research aspect. As for the value of the conclusion, it depends on the topic of studying economic man. This may explain why many economists have no important research results in their lives.

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