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Economics\\u2019 Roots

For two millenia, economics was a field of philosophy. Starting in the late 1800s, economists began to employ mathematical modeling in their thinking. The requirements of mathematical modeling have led modern economists to begin by assuming that humans behave in certain ways. Austrian economics is a school of thought that goes back to economics\\u2019 philosophical roots by beginning with questions, rather than assumptions, about how humans behave.