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Book Cover for: More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics: Physics as Nature's Economics, Philip J. Mirowski

More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics: Physics as Nature's Economics

Philip J. Mirowski

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This is a history of how physics has drawn some inspiration from economics and how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value. The author traces the development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect on the invention and promulgation of neoclassical economics, the modern orthodox theory.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publish Date: Nov 29th, 1991
  • Pages: 464
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.16in - 5.96in - 1.16in - 1.55lb
  • EAN: 9780521426893
  • Categories: • Economics - Theory• Philosophy & Social Aspects• Physics - General

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Sam Walton
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2 years

Generally all is not well, said the man listening to the screaming in hell

That'd be pretty cool though (Mirowski, More heat than light: economics as social physics; physics as nature’s economics) https://t.co/0LgXEx6JLA

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3 years

recovering Germanist; content producer; pianist; aspiring horticulturalist 🌺

Impossible to even consider the question of Marxism as science if you don't understand that classical economics is explicitly physics-founded. Screenshots are from Mirowski's More Heat Than Light, but this genealogy of physics is one of the central themes of @videotroph's book. https://t.co/VpUVH78ox2

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((( 1/f ))) フェダシング / फेडसिंह
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3 years

Historian of science and mathematics. 科学と数学の歴史家.

@flloaers I can recommend a book or two that suggest otherwise though, for instance "More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics" by Philip Mirowski. It's pretty amazing.

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Praise for this book

"Intellectual stars of his magnitude (as opposed to scientific stars) don't come along very often....in More Heat Than Light...he states a challenge that is going to haunt economists for years....Mirowski and his ideas are about to move out of the history of economics into the wider stream." David Warsh, The Boston Globe
"...a major contribution to twentieth century literature in economic thought. It is destined to become a classic and must be read and reread." Southern Economic Journal
"...an excellent and enthralling volume, written with great erudition and wit." Review of Political Economy
"No previous writer has made such a sustained and determined effort to explore the undeniably important conceptual links between economics and physics; and this alone is a landmark contribution of importance to all economists, not merely to specialist historians of the discipline." Kyklos
"...an example of the history of economic theory at its best." Charles M. A. Clark, Eastern Economic Journal

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