More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economy

Philip Mirowski · Philip Warren Anderson

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List of figures List of tables Epigraph Acknowledgments Dedication 1. The fearful spheres of Pascal and Parmenides 2. Everything an economist needs to know about physics but was probably afraid to ask: the history of the energy concept 3. Body, motions and value 4. Science and substance theories of value in political economy to 1870 5. Neoclassical economics: an irresistible field of force meets an immovable object 6. The corruption of the field theory of value, and the retrogression to substance theories of value: neoclassical production theory 7. The ironies of physics envy 8. Universal history is the story of different intonations given to a handful of metaphors.

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