UID:
edocfu_9960119834202883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 618 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-57212-3
Series Statement:
Historical perspectives on modern economics
Content:
This 1994 collection of interdisciplinary essays was the first to investigate how images in the history of the natural and physical sciences have been used to shape the history of economic thought. The contributors, historians of science and economics alike, document the extent to which scholars have drawn on physical and natural science to ground economic ideas and evaluate the role and importance of metaphors in the structure and content of economic thought. These range from Aristotle's discussion of the division of labour, to Marshall's evocation of population biology, to Hayek's dependence upon evolutionary concepts, and more recently to neoclassical economists' invocation of chaos theory. Resort to such images, contributors find, was more than mere rhetorical flourish. Rather, appeals to natural and physical metaphors serve to constitute the very subject matter of the discipline and what might be accepted as the 'economic'.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Doing what comes naturally : four metanarratives on what metaphors are for / Philip Mirowski -- So what's an economic metaphor? / Arjo Klamer and Thomas C. Leonard -- Newton and the social sciences, with special reference to economics, or, the case of the missing paradigm / I. Bernard Cohen -- From virtural velocities to economic action : the very slow arrivals of linear programming and locational equilibrium / Ivor Grattan-Guinness -- Qualitative dynamics in economics and fluid mechanics : a comparison of recent applications / Randall Bausor -- Rigor and practicality : rival ideals of quantification in nineteenth-century economics / Theodore M. Porter -- Economic man, economic machine : images of circulation in the Victorian money market / Timothy L. Alborn -- The moment of Richard Jennings : the production of Jevons's marginalist economic agent / Michael V. White -- Economics and evolution : Alfred James Lotka and the economy of nature / Sharon E. Kingsland -- Fire, motion, and productivity : the proto-energetics of nature and economy in François Quesnay / Paul P. Christensen -- Organism as a metaphor in German economic thought / Michael Hutter -- The greyhound and the mastiff : Darwinian themes in Mill and Marshall / Margaret Schabas -- Organization and the division of labor : biological metaphors at work in Alfred Marshall's Principles of economics / Camille Limoges and Claude Ménard -- The role of biological analogies in the theory of the firm / Neil B. Niman -- Does evolutionary theory give comfort or inspiration to economics? / Alexander Rosenberg -- Hayek, evolution, and spontaneous order / Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- The realms of the natural / Philip Mirowski -- The place of economics in the hierarchy of the sciences : Section F from Whewell to Edgeworth / James P. Henderson -- The kinds of order in society / James Bernard Murphy -- Feminist accounting theory as a critique of what's "natural" in economics / David Chioni Moore.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-47884-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-44321-0
Language:
English
