Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 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, motion, and value
- 4 Science and substance theories of value in political economy to 1870
- 5 Neoclassical economic theory: An irresistable field of force meets an immovable object
- 6 The corruption of the field metaphor, 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
- Appendix: The mathematics of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 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, motion, and value
- 4 Science and substance theories of value in political economy to 1870
- 5 Neoclassical economic theory: An irresistable field of force meets an immovable object
- 6 The corruption of the field metaphor, 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
- Appendix: The mathematics of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- More Heat than LightEconomics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics, pp. vii - ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989