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Many students of economics find the analytical and expository devices used by economists forbidding or even frightening. This is particularly the case where the devices employ — or look as if they employ — mathematical modes of expression and mathematical methods of reasoning.
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Rowan, D.C. (1974). Analytical and Expository Devices. In: Output, Inflation and Growth. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86173-6_7
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