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

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

Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics

Philip Mirowski

464 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction economics history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 a...

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