Marginalism and Discontinuity : Tools for the Crafts of Knowledge and Decision /
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
1989.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Part One: Marginalism and Discontinuity ; Chapter 1: Big Decisions ; Chapter 2: Adding Up the World ; Chapter 3: Where Do Centers Come From? ; Chapter 4: Sticky Systems ; Chapter 5: Economy, Perversion, and Fetishes ; Part Two: Tools and Sacred Practices ; Chapter 6: The Horizon of Mathematics ; Chapter 7: The Physicist's Toolkit ; Chapter 8: The Possibility of Doom ; Chapter 9: Los Angeles and the Frontier ; Epilog: Bringing Up Baby ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index