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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Can Economic theories and models be derived using only formal philosophical logic, or are mathematical proofs absolutely necessary for the derivation of these models?
gpt
No, strictly speaking you do not need math.

However, this is part of the history of economics. It's so math heavy nowadays because math is a clear and concise language. That makes it much more easy to know what people try to say, and to work with that scientifically, test hypotheses, etc.

Certain groups still argue about what some bygone economists were "actually" trying to say because even after elaborating your theses over multiple books, words are still imprecise. Math nicely avoids those issues, and economics is better off for it.