“Mathematics Versus Economic Logic by Ludwig von Mises [This article's original title is "Logical Catallactics Versus Mathematical Catallactics." excerpted from chapter 16 of Human Action.]

“A very imperfect and superficial metaphor is not a substitute for the services rendered by logical economics. The problems of prices and costs have been treated also with mathematical methods. There have even been economists who held that the only appropriate method of dealing with economic problems is the mathematical method and who derided the logical economists as “literary” economists.”

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It would seem to me that the literary description of existence, thought and action is inherently open to the Trinitarian conception of integral human development that Benedict lucidly appeals to. Please correct me where I am wrong, but I cannot let this calumny against one of the most cogent economic thinkers in the 20th Century to go unchallenged. Indeed, he would seem to be an ally of ours in acknowledging the superior inheritance of the Christian West in comparison to his imperial neighbors, the Ottomans:
“The religion of Islam has not changed since the days of the Arab conquests. Their literature, their philosophies continue to repeat the old ideas and do not penetrate beyond the circle of theology. One looks in vain among them for men and movements such as Western Christianity has produced in each century. They maintain their identity only by rejecting everything foreign and ‘different,’ by traditionalism and conservatism. Only their hatred of everything foreign rouses them to great deeds from time to time. All new sects, even the new doctrines which arise with them, are nothing more than echoes of this fight against the foreign, the new, the infidel.”
cited from Mises on Islam by Laurence M. Vance
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance23.html