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More heat than light : economics as social physics, physics as nature's economics / Philip Mirowski.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)1989.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 450 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107720046
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HB74 .M674 1989
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Contents:
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.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction HB74.49 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn865579214

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.

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