1 I am especially grateful to Juergen Jung, Mike Treuden, and Nathaniel Throckmorton for their tremendous contributions to these notes. I also thank Michael Kaganovich and Eric Leeper for their guidance and for giving me the opportunity to develop and teach this course during graduate school. Several classes of Indiana and Auburn University graduate students provided suggestions and corrections...

The recognition that health economists need to understand the meaning of data if they are to adequately understand research findings which challenge conventional economic theory has led to the growth of qualitative modes of enquiry in health economics. The use of qualitative methods of exploration and description alongside quantitative techniques gives rise to a number of epistemological, ontol...

In this paper I attempt to show that mathematical economics is unreasonably ineffective. Unreasonable, because the mathematical assumptions are economically unwarranted; ineffective because the mathematical formalizations imply non-constructive and uncomputable structures. A reasonable and effective mathematization of economics entails Diophantine formalisms. These come with natural undecidabil...