... on Integrability, Symmetry, and Utility as Potential Energy in Mirowski’s Critical History D. Wade Hands In an earlier paper (Hands 1992) I argued that while there is much to be said in favor of Mirowski’s central thesis in More Heat than Light, there are some questions raised...

... theory of conflict that, without dismissing the assumption of rational behavior, points out some of its paradoxical consequences. Harsanyi's and Schelling's contrasting views on the axiom of symmetry, as postulated by Nash (1950), are then presented. This debate explains why, although in the early 1960s...

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...: “Mathematical Formalism and Economic Explanation” (1986), “Learning the Meaning of a Dollar: Conservation Principles and the Social Theory of Value in Economic Theory” (1990), “Postmodernism and the Social Theory of Value” (1991a), and “Symmetries, Arbitrage and the Social Theory...

... = si,j p, R – x j p, R . (1.1) ∂pj ∂R Slutsky ([1915] 1953, equation 55) also derived the following symmetry “condition”: ∂x j ∂x j ∂xi ∂xi sij = + xi = + x j = sji. (1.2) ∂pi ∂R ∂pj ∂R...

... of Economics 81 : 1 -38. Kemp, Murray C. 1967 . Notes on the Theory of Optimal Tariffs. Economic Record 43.103 : 395 -404. Lerner, Abba P. 1936 . The Symmetry between Import and Export Taxes. Economica 3 : 306 -13. ____. 1944 . The Economics of Control:Principles of Welfare Economics . New...

... of invariance in the larger context of symmetry principles. Just as the process of mathe­ matical formalization in physics was predicated upon postulation of ever more elaborate symmetries— from spatial symmetry to temporal sym­ metry to more inaccessible gauge symmetries— so too must...

... or take the Marshallian market demand curve to be vertical (dD/dp = 0). One final point. On page 638 Magnan de Bornier states that “it is, then, clear that [Irving] Fisher suggested the symmetry between quantity- and price-conjectures and was the first to do so.” Actually, it was Cournot himself...

...” (VARP) can be transformed into the SARP by means of a small change. Leonid Hurwicz and Marcel K. Richter (1979) show, however, that these two axioms are not linked to the same properties of the Antonelli matrix. SARP implies symmetry as well as the semidefiniteness of the Antonelli matrix...

... techniques, restor- ing symmetry (between agent and economist), optimizing over information, endo- genizing expectations, making public predictions, countering bounded rationality, and incorporating vector autoregressions. In Chapter 1, Sent...

.... Southern Economic Journal 41 : 347 -81. Giocoli, Nicola. 2003 . Modeling Rational Agents: From Interwar Economics to Early Modern Game Theory . Cheltenham, U.K.: Elgar. Hands, D. Wade. 1993 . More Light on Integrability, Symmetry, and Utility as Potential Energy in Mirowski's Critical History...

...), Universität Hohenheim. Hands, D. Wade. 1993 . More Light on Integrability,Symmetry, and Utility as Potential Energy in Mirowski's Critical History. In Non-Natural Social Science: Reflecting on the Enterprise ofMore Heat Than Light , edited by Neil de Marchi. HOPE 25 (supplement): 118 -30. Hands, D...

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... probabilistic representation of ignorance about a parameter depends on how that parameter functions in a statistical model of the data to be acquired. That is, rather than using a Laplacean, uniform prior to depict prior ignorance about a parameter, Jeffreys argued by way of statistical symmetries...

... restriction from ordinal utility theory—Slutsky symmetry (Sij = Sji for all i and j)— but this was not a problem for Samuelson.2 The Slutsky symmetry condi- tion was an integrability condition that guaranteed the existence of a ratio- nalizing utility function,3 and since Samuelson’s stated purpose...

... First Derivatives. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 53 ( April ): 343 -50. Lerner , Abba P. 1936 . The Symmetry between Import and Export Taxes. Economica, n.s . 3 ( August ): 306 -13. Lerner , Abba P. 1944 . The Economics of Control . New York: Macmillan...

... as “just another way to express a symmetry” (11). With the demise of energetics came the renunciation of the Laplacean dream of a world entirely comprehended by mathematical equations. Mirowski views this entire episode as one motivated by that worst of human flaws, hubris...

... are positive for rival and negative for complementary articles. (279 n. 1) This brief passage contains not one but two remarkable contributions to demand and utility theory. The first of these, the fact that dξ/dy = dη/dx, is the first statement of a symmetry condition for cross effects between goods...

... strategy was, in the case of symmetry, as assumed in Borel 1921, equivalent to the criterion in current game theory for elimination of a weak or dominated strategy. A weak strategy is one that has a payoff less than or equal to that of some other strategy, 20 Robert W. Dimand and Mary Ann Dimand...

... treatment of the budget in the utility maximization problem.1 Schultz, after all, was searching for a theory of interdependent demand curves, and this seemed a viable formal candidate, even though it was not to be found in Walras or Pareto. The novel treatment also gave rise to some additional symmetry...