Alfred Marshall, one of the fathers of neo-classical economics, distrusted mathematics for this very reason.

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Ms. Nasar traces the hopeful strain of economic growth thinking back to the dimly remembered Alfred Marshall.

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Alfred Marshall taught us that they work together as in the two blades of scissors, but I guess that was primarily in a micro-economic context.

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