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 ...
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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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This book is a collection of articles exploring metaphors and natural images in political economy and economics. There are several excellent contributions for those interested in the intellectual history of economics, the history of political economy or in critique of economics as a very self-contained (and 'wanna-be scientific) discipline. Not all the chapters are great, some are written by more mainstream economists, but there is sufficient brilliant material in this volume to make it an essential contribution! It can be highly reccommended along with Philip Mirowski's other works, several of which are 'blow-away' scholarly works!
