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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      19 January 2010
      29 July 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511572128
      9780521443210
      9780521478847
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511572128
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.033kg, 636 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.867kg, 636 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
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    Subjects:
    Economics, Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
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    This 1994 collection of interdisciplinary essays was the first to investigate how images in the history of the natural and physical sciences have been used to shape the history of economic thought. The contributors, historians of science and economics alike, document the extent to which scholars have drawn on physical and natural science to ground economic ideas and evaluate the role and importance of metaphors in the structure and content of economic thought. These range from Aristotle's discussion of the division of labour, to Marshall's evocation of population biology, to Hayek's dependence upon evolutionary concepts, and more recently to neoclassical economists' invocation of chaos theory. Resort to such images, contributors find, was more than mere rhetorical flourish. Rather, appeals to natural and physical metaphors serve to constitute the very subject matter of the discipline and what might be accepted as the 'economic'.

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    "The book is a good reference for teachers of the history of economic thought or philosophy of economics." The Southern Economic Journal

    "...I recommend this volume to anyone interested in a lively debate about the intellectual cross-pollination between the natural and social sciences. Many of the essays are provocative." John C. Moorhouse, Reason Papers

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