Philip Mirowski (ed.)

Natural Images in Economic Thought

Markets Read in Tooth and Claw
Herausgeber: Goodwin, Craufurd; Mirowski, Philip J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First conference devoted to impact of natural sciences on content and form of economics in history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1171g
• ISBN-13: 9780521443210
• ISBN-10: 0521443210
• Artikelnr.: 21281481

Inhaltsangabe

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 François 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 Ménard; 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.