期刊名称：Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series
电子版ISSN：2393-3127
出版年度：2012
卷号：12
期号：2
语种：English
出版社：Ovidius University Press
摘要：Economic science is always in search for a more rigorous,objective and accurate methods that could provide economics with a more elevated status among other sciences. In many cases the attempts to assume empirical methods specific to natural sciences (such as observation and experiment) were less able to lead the economic thought towards significant results. Nevertheless the use of mathematical language in economics as a formalizing method has proved to be successful. The large scale spreading of mathematics among economists overlaps with the socalled marginalist revolution. The proponents of marginalist theory made appeal mathematical language in order to explain and measure utility. In this context,the present paper attempts to analyze how the formalizing method provided by mathematics altered the traditional microeconomics. Thus,the paper provides a brief retrospective on the use of mathematics in utilitarian approach with a special focus on the debates over the measurability of utility.
关键词：methodology;quality of life;epistemology;utility
