同其他許多社会科学家一样,經济学家这一群也渴望着自然科学的准确性。在許多人看来,达到这类准确性的捷徑在于把經济问題简化为数学方程式,然后运用已証实的数学定律来解答这些方程式。荷尔摩斯(Hol-mes)法官,那个偉大的反对諭者,有一次說道:“未来是属于统計学家和經济学家的。”但荷尔摩斯决沒有料到目前經济学家中数学会这样风行一时,以至于产生了这样一种情形,經济学会中象我这样的許多会员或多数会员 Like many other social scientists, this group of economists is also longing for the accuracy of the natural sciences. For many, the short cut to such accuracy is the reduction of economic problems to mathematical equations and the use of proven mathematical laws to answer these equations. Hol-mes judge, the great Opposition, once said: “The future belongs to statisticians and economists.” But Holmes never expected the current economists to math It’s so popular that there’s a situation where many or most members of the economics society like me