Natural Images in Economic Thought: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw

by Philip Mirowski

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521478847
• ISBN13: 9780521478847
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 636 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"