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..., John Adams, and James Madison. Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Part 1 Disciplinary History and the Use of Metaphor Analogy, Homology, and Metaphor in the Interactions between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences, Especially Economics I. Bernard Cohen 1...

...), and Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge (1993). Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 A Method to Mirowski’s Mad Use of Metaphor Steve Fuller The attraction of Mirowski’s More Heat than Light (1989a) to a phi­ losopher such as myself, a “social epistemologist...

...: Metaphor and Dogma in the History of Macroeconomics . By King J. E. . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar , 2012 . 293 pp. Hardback $120.00 . Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 References Investigation of Communist Activities in the State of Michigan. Hearings. United States Congress...

... Abstract labour as a metaphor? A comment on Steedman Heiner Ganssmann I. Steedman (1985) has, after the rather devastating critique of the Marxian theory of value in his Marx after Srafa (1977), taken a second, one might say more benevolent, look at this theory. The increase...

... history of science metaphors probabilistic revolution I would like to thank Ariane Dupont-Kieffer and Verena Halsmayer for their insightful comments on an earlier version of this survey. References Acosta Juan Rubin Goulven . 2019 . “ Bank Behavior in Large-Scale...

... over time—demarcation line within the freshwater/saltwater spectrum (according to Hall’s 1976 metaphor) between economists who believed the business cycle was mostly driven by supply-side versus demand-side factors, and a formidable weapon in the battle that divided them. Correspondence may...

... absence of women and gender in the mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the history of women and economics are delineated: making visible women economists, outlining the impact of including women in a broader narrative about economics, and analyzing gender metaphors in economic thought. We...

..., temperature. Edgeworth faced two kinds of criticisms: concerning the use of psychological notions in economics and concerning the nature of utility itself. Both criticisms were also stated in terms of the thermodynamic metaphor, and the thermometer analogy played a major role in the exchanges. Following those...

... and benefit producers and consumers of power alike. He introduced the approach, which he called “homeostatic control,” around 1978 in a seminar of the MIT Energy Lab. Derived by way of a biological metaphor, homeostatic control conceives of a self-correcting system that maintains its equilibrium state...

... of perfect competition and we argue that the latter is beset with some theoretical difficulties alien to the former. Second, we reconstruct in some detail Smith’s and Marx’s views concerning market price determination and show that Marx’s extensive use of metaphors and numerical examples foreshadows...

... their mathematics from physics. This central thesis derives from another, more general thesis, which says that scientific disciplines are all part of the gradual unfolding of a complex of three metaphors. Mirowski links both theses by arguing that each discipline or group of disciplines...

... and American Economic Essays (1992). Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 What Mirowski’s History Leaves Out A. W. Coats Economics is more metaphor than science, a way o f imposing interpretative order on the buzz o f transactions that make up a modern economy...

... as social physics is granted, everything else falls into place with an inexorable logic. And yet, our author insists, history is nothing more than a bunch of metaphors. There is no ultimate foundation to any of our knowledge claims. Only the metaphors impose constraints...

...,” and neoclassical economics owes its existence to its crude appropriation, in the form of utility, of the late 250 Robert J. Leonard nineteenth-century conception of energy as a “field.” Moreover, be­ cause neoclassical theory retained this appropriated metaphor in order to retain utility...

...? More specifically, why does evolutionary economics,although it is based on a (biological) metaphor that arguably is more appropriate for economics than is the prevailing mechanistic metaphor,not get the attention and acclaim that it deserves? What institutions in the economics profession prevent...

... the natural sciences with parallel developmentsin economics. The second discusses various types of metaphors, inspired by the natural world or the natural sciences, to which economists have appealed in defending their views. Finally, the third approach proceeds by raising a more radical question about...