More Heat than Light

Name: More Heat than Light
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521426893
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Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics

Автор: Philip J. Mirowski

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Cambridge University Press

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More Heat Than Light is a history of how physics has drawn some inspiration from economics and also...

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Автор

Philip J. Mirowski

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1991

страници

464

EAN

9780521426893

ISBN

0521426898

Enbook ID

04091853

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

704

Размери

153 x 228 x 29

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More Heat Than Light is a history of how physics has drawn some inspiration from economics and also how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value. It traces the development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect upon the invention and promulgation of neoclassical economics. Any discussion of the standing of economics as a science must include the historical symbiosis between the two disciplines. Starting with the philosopher Emile Meyerson's discussion of the relationship between notions of invariance and causality in the history of science, the book surveys the history of conservation principles in the Western discussion of motion. Recourse to the metaphors of the economy are frequent in physics, and the concepts of value, motion, and body reinforced each other throughout the development of both disciplines, especially with regard to practices of mathematical formalisation. However, in economics subsequent misuse of conservation principles led to serious blunders in the mathematical formalisation of economic theory. The book attempts to provide the reader with sufficient background in the history of physics in order to appreciate its theses. The discussion is technically detailed and complex, and familiarity with calculus is required.

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