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More heat than light : economics as social physics, physics as nature's economics /
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 invent...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1989.
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| Series: | Historical perspectives on modern economics.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Fearful spheres of Pascal and Parmenides
- Everything an economist needs to know about physics but was probably afraid to ask : the history of the energy concept
- Body, motion, and value
- Science and substance theories of value in political economy to 1870
- Neoclassical economic theory : an irresistible field of force meets an immovable object
- Corruption of the field metaphor, and the retrogression to substance theories of value : Neoclassical production theory
- Ironies of Physics envy
- Universal history is the story of different intonations given to a handful of metaphors.