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Natural Images in Economic Thought: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw
This collection of interdisciplinary essays is 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. It documents 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 labor, to Marshall's evocation of population biology, to Hayek's dependence upon evolutionary concepts, and more recently to neoclassical economists' invocation of chaos theory.
Book Details
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: Jul 29th, 1994
- Pages: 636
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.96in - 5.97in - 1.66in - 1.91lb
- EAN: 9780521478847
- Categories: • Economics - Theory• Economic History
Praise for this book
"The book is a good reference for teachers of the history of economic thought or philosophy of economics." The Southern Economic Journal
"...I recommend this volume to anyone interested in a lively debate about the intellectual cross-pollination between the natural and social sciences. Many of the essays are provocative." John C. Moorhouse, Reason Papers