| Description |
xiii, 618 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Historical perspectives on modern economics |
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Historical perspectives on modern economics.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. The Natural and the Social: 1. Doing what comes naturally: four metanarratives on what metaphors are for Philip Mirowski -- 2. So what's an economic metaphor? Arjo Klamer and Thomas C. Leonard -- Part II. Physical metaphors and mathematical formalization: 3. Newton and the social sciences, with special reference to economics, or, the case of the missing paradigm I. Bernard Cohen -- 4. From virtual velocities to economic action: the very slow arrivals of linear programming and locational equilibrium Ivor Grattan-Guinness -- 5. Qualitative dynamics in economics and fluid mechanics: a comparison of recent applications Randall Bausor -- 6. Rigor and practicality: rival ideals of quantification in nineteenth-century economics Theodore M. Porter -- Part III. Uneasy boundaries between man and machine: 7. Economic man, economic machine: images of circulation in the Victorian money market Timothy L. Alborn -- 8. The moment of Richard Jennings: the production of Jevons's marginalist economic agent Michael V. White -- 9. Economics and evolution: Alfred James Lotka and the economy of nature Sharon E. Kingsland -- Part IV. Organic Metaphors and their stimuli: 10. Fire, motion, and productivity: the proto-energetics of nature and economy in FranČ¯is Quesnay Paul P. Christensen -- 11. Organism as a metaphor in German economic thought Michael Hutter -- 12. The greyhound and the mastiff: Darwinian themes in Mill and Marshall Margaret Schabas -- 13. Organization and the division of labor: biological metaphors at work in Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics, Camille Limoges and Claude Me;nard -- 14. The role of biological analogies in the theory of the firm Neil B. Niman -- 15. Does evolutionary theory give comfort of inspiration to economics? Alexander Rosenberg -- 16. Hayek, evolution, and spontaneous order Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- Part V. Negotiating Over Nature: 17. The realms of the Natural Philip Mirowski -- 18. The place of economics in the hierarchy of the sciences: Section F from Whewell to Edgeworth James P. Henderson -- 19. The kinds of order in society James Bernard Murphy -- 20. Feminist accounting theory as a critique of what's 'natural' in economics David Chioni Moore -- Index |
| Analysis |
Economics History |
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Economics History |
| Notes |
Papers presented at the Conference on Natural Images in Economics, University of Notre Dame, Sept. 1991 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Economics -- History -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Mirowski, Philip, 1951-
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Conference on Natural Images in Economics (1991 : University of Notre Dame)
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| LC no. |
93041164 |
| ISBN |
0521443210 |
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0521478847 (paperback) |
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