Yes the concepts are the main thing useful you learn when you learn math. But not all math is equally useful in all areas. Economists hardly ever use differential equations; that is not a math that helps much there. So in learning econ Congressfolks should learn some math, yes, but probably not differential equations.
That’s an unfortunate example: to the extent which economics is quantifiable, it’s all differential equations… heck, marginal utility is a differential equation!
Maybe they weren’t explicitly stated as differential equations but:
Once you learn the concept of a differential equation, you see differential equations all over, no matter what you do.
Speaking of differential equations in economics, a friend of mine has had an idea that there should be an economics textbook for mathematicians, because it annoyed him so much that they seem to dance around mathematical concepts—for example, marginal anything is clearly a derivative, although normal econ textbooks never call it that.
That’s odd—if anything, econ usually gets accused of being way too much about mathematical formalism. This, for example, might as well be “an economics textbook for mathematicians”; maybe your friend will find it helpful.
Yes the concepts are the main thing useful you learn when you learn math. But not all math is equally useful in all areas. Economists hardly ever use differential equations; that is not a math that helps much there. So in learning econ Congressfolks should learn some math, yes, but probably not differential equations.
That’s an unfortunate example: to the extent which economics is quantifiable, it’s all differential equations… heck, marginal utility is a differential equation!
Maybe they weren’t explicitly stated as differential equations but:
so it can’t be helped.
Speaking of differential equations in economics, a friend of mine has had an idea that there should be an economics textbook for mathematicians, because it annoyed him so much that they seem to dance around mathematical concepts—for example, marginal anything is clearly a derivative, although normal econ textbooks never call it that.
Not in the discrete case.
That’s odd—if anything, econ usually gets accused of being way too much about mathematical formalism. This, for example, might as well be “an economics textbook for mathematicians”; maybe your friend will find it helpful.
Do you mean a math text for economists?