Non-Natural Social Science: Reflecting on the Enterprise of More Heat Than Light Volume 25

By: Stephanie Sieburth

Published in 1989, Philip Mirowski's More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physic's as Nature's Economics offered a challenge to historians of economics that could not be ignored. Neo-classical economics, he said, adopted certain analytical tools of mid-nineteenth-century physics, simply substituting "utility" for "energy," and in so doing, chose a natural-world model which denied that economic knowledge might be essentially social and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082231410X
• ISBN13: 9780822314103
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"