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**halyshitzob** · 06-09-2007, 02:10 AM

Thank you for this. Tawney I know from his wonderful book Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, which I would consider absolutely fundamental for anyone going into this area. I remember reading Schumacher many years ago, but very little has remained with me from that time.

Am absolutely not averse to discussing economic ideas, but my interest as a mathematician is in the rise of the modern 'scientific' approach to knowledge in general and towards economics in particular. Have been reading a great deal in the history and philosophy of science, because it has become the theology of a new religion and thus it worries me a great deal when people, particularly Muslims, evoke science as some unalterable arbiter.

Nice to hear from you again.

Abdassamad Clarke

Interesting! I'm planning on doing a module next semester on the history of economics and economic thought; it's something I've been trying to get into for a while. Anny suggested reading you have would be appreciated. I think there's a very strong link between economic theory and the behaviour of people which is quite intangible - I'm certain that, to some degree, modelled economic principles affect the way people think in a sort of "does art resemble life, or life resemble art" paradox. An example of this might be: why do we personify the economy? Discuss it as being weak, strong, healthy or otherwise; and when did the economy, however defined, become more important than welfare or morality?

06-09-2007, 02:10 AM	#16
halyshitzob Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 340 Senior Member	Thank you for this. Tawney I know from his wonderful book Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, which I would consider absolutely fundamental for anyone going into this area. I remember reading Schumacher many years ago, but very little has remained with me from that time. Am absolutely not averse to discussing economic ideas, but my interest as a mathematician is in the rise of the modern 'scientific' approach to knowledge in general and towards economics in particular. Have been reading a great deal in the history and philosophy of science, because it has become the theology of a new religion and thus it worries me a great deal when people, particularly Muslims, evoke science as some unalterable arbiter. Nice to hear from you again. Abdassamad Clarke Interesting! I'm planning on doing a module next semester on the history of economics and economic thought; it's something I've been trying to get into for a while. Anny suggested reading you have would be appreciated. I think there's a very strong link between economic theory and the behaviour of people which is quite intangible - I'm certain that, to some degree, modelled economic principles affect the way people think in a sort of "does art resemble life, or life resemble art" paradox. An example of this might be: why do we personify the economy? Discuss it as being weak, strong, healthy or otherwise; and when did the economy, however defined, become more important than welfare or morality?
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