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How Economics Became What It Is - How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science. ByGeoffrey M. Hodgson. New York: Routledge, 2001. xix + 422 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, references. Cloth, $120.00; paper, $36.95. ISBN: cloth 0-415-25716-6; paper 0-415-25717-4. - How Economics Became a Mathematical Science. ByE. Roy Weintraub. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. xiii + 313 pp. Index, notes, bibliography. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95. ISBN: cloth 0-822-32856-9; paper 0-822-32871-2.
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