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...Royall Brandis Ching-Yao Hsieh and Meng-Hua Ye. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1992. 212 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Book Reviews Economics, Philosophy, and Physics. By Ching-Yao Hsieh and Meng-Hua Ye. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe...

... in Economics: An Interpretation beyond Physics Arjo Klamer The cultivated man of today is gradually turning away from natural things, and life is becoming more and more abstract.— Piet Mondrian, 1919 Yes, 1932 was a great time to be born as an economist. The sleeping...

...” of the European Society for the History of Economics (Rotterdam, February 1995), where I presented a first version of the article. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Boumans , Marcel 1993 . Paul Ehrenfest and Jan Tinbergen: A Case of Limited Physics Transfer. HOPE 25...

... E. Earl, 225 -72. Aldershot: Edward Elgar. One Analogy Can Hide Another: Physics and Biology in Alchian’s “Economic Natural Selection” Clément Levallois Historiography has placed Armen Alchian’s “Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory” (1950) at the crossroads of two...

... University Press 2020 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth ordinal utility measurement economic thought References Alchian Armen A. 1953 . “ The Meaning of Utility Measurement .” American Economic Review 43 , no. 1 : 26 – 50 . Barratt Alfred . 1869 . Physical Ethics...

... on the theory and methods of econometrics given by Frisch at the Poincaré Institute at the University of Paris in 1933, as well as extensive lecture notes from Yale University in 1930. These largely unknown documents elaborate on Frisch's scientific views, how he aimed at modeling economics on physics...

... the deterministic thread which has shaped all our theoretical conceptions of economic life till now. The inevitable fac­ tor, he claims, has been the prevailing conception of the natural world, as revealed through theories in physics. Any economic theory that has gained a significant degree of credibility...

... of Financial Economics .” Complexity 14 ( 3 ): 11 – 38 . Farmer Doyne Shubik Martin Smith Eric . 2005 . “ Is Economics the Next Physical Science? ” Physics Today 58 ( 9 ): 37 – 42 . Ferreira Paulo Dionísio Andreia . 2008 . “ Voters’ Dissatisfaction, Abstention...

... Stuart Mill. New York: Columbia University Press. Mirowski , P. 1989 . More Heat Than Light: Economics as a Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics. New York: Cambridge University Press. Nickelsburg , G. , and M. Wolfson. 1982 . Crisis and Collapse: New Perspectives on History...

..., 327, 328. See also Dynamics standard model for, 99; Walras and, (economics) 169. See also Constrained maxima; Classical economics: Leonard on, Differential equations 260, 266; physics and, 112, 263; Calder, Alexander, 232...

... explanation or model in biology, economics, physics, or chemistry was to provide a model unconstrained by experimental data or by interpersonally confirmable observations. In Volterra’s view, the strategy for approaching scientific explanation generally was to base reasoning on the most well-developed...

... pleases with one’s own; the grip also in the sense that the holder of the title loses the will to fight, economically, physically, politically, for “his” factory and his control over it, to die if necessary on its steps. And this evaporation of what we may term the material substance...

..., for example, water and metals to air and glass, and striving above all to maintain itself in a state of even and harmonious distribution.18 The physiocrats were Franklin’s first friends and promot- ers in France and were very impressed by his electrical physics, as was he, in turn, by their economic...

... 1993 Part 2 Economic Problems and Mathematical Formalism Neoclassical Economics as Mathematical Metaphysics Jack Birner Scholars disagree about the origin of the name of Aristotle’s book Meta­ physics. Does it refer to the content of the book, “that which goes beyond physics...

... by Duke University Press 1993 What’s So Wrong with Physics Envy? Margaret Schabas As a contribution to the history and philosophy of economics, Philip Mirowski’s More Heat than Light has justly achieved much recognition. Few scholars have swept over so much material...

...Marcel Boumans Marcel Boumans lectures on philosophy and history of economics at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of A Case of Limited Physics Transfer: Jan Tinbergen’s Resources for Reshaping Economics (1992). Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Paul...

... that has haunted the history of economics for some time now: How to explain this continual reference in economics to alien sciences such as physics? I admit, my interpretation of the Mirowski thesis is not quite as far-reaching as the inventor would prefer: according to Mirowski...

... astronomer, Simon Newcomb, who also came to economics from the physical sciences, Soddy came as a critic, not a student, and remained an outsider. Newcomb liked economics, did not believe that his pre-World War I America was in mortal danger from an increasingly powerful but misdirected...

...” points at issue. 272 A. W. Coats treatment of “economics as social physics,” leaving to others the task of unraveling the story of “physics as nature’s economics.” Even so, both facets of More Heat must be taken into account in considering Mirow­ ski’s calculated omissions. With respect...

... claims, referred to in the epigraphs above. The first is that a major de­ terminant of the outcome of the Cambridge capital controversies was the conflict between two economic value theories, each appropriated from a different physics theory— the classical substance theory...