More heat than light : economics as social physics, physics as nature's economics /
Mirowski, Philip, 1951-
More heat than light : economics as social physics, physics as nature's economics / Philip Mirowski. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1989. - 1 online resource (xii, 450 pages) - Historical perspectives on modern economics .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Fearful spheres of Pascal and Parmenides -- Everything an economist needs to know about physics but was probably afraid to ask : the history of the energy concept -- Body, motion, and value -- Science and substance theories of value in political economy to 1870 -- Neoclassical economic theory : an irresistible field of force meets an immovable object -- Corruption of the field metaphor, and the retrogression to substance theories of value : Neoclassical production theory -- Ironies of Physics envy -- Universal history is the story of different intonations given to a handful of metaphors.
9781107720046
Economics.
Physics.
Física.
Electronic Books.
HB74 / .M674 1989
More heat than light : economics as social physics, physics as nature's economics / Philip Mirowski. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1989. - 1 online resource (xii, 450 pages) - Historical perspectives on modern economics .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Fearful spheres of Pascal and Parmenides -- Everything an economist needs to know about physics but was probably afraid to ask : the history of the energy concept -- Body, motion, and value -- Science and substance theories of value in political economy to 1870 -- Neoclassical economic theory : an irresistible field of force meets an immovable object -- Corruption of the field metaphor, and the retrogression to substance theories of value : Neoclassical production theory -- Ironies of Physics envy -- Universal history is the story of different intonations given to a handful of metaphors.
9781107720046
Economics.
Physics.
Física.
Electronic Books.
HB74 / .M674 1989