Natural Images in Economic Thought

• List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I. The Natural and the Social: 1. Doing what comes naturally: four metanarratives on what metaphors are for Philip Mirowski; 2. So what's an economic metaphor? Arjo Klamer and Thomas C. Leonard; Part II. Physical Metaphors and Mathematical Formalization: 3. Newton and the social sciences, with special reference to economics, or, the case of the missing paradigm I. Bernard Cohen; 4. From virtual velocities to economic action: the very slow arrivals of linear programming and locational equilibrium Ivor Grattan-Guinness; 5. Qualitative dynamics in economics and fluid mechanics: a comparison of recent applications Randall Bausor; 6. Rigor and practicality: rival ideals of quantification in nineteenth-century economics Theodore M. Porter; Part III. Uneasy boundaries between man and machine: 7. Economic man, economic machine: images of circulation in the Victorian money market Timothy L. Alborn; 8. The moment of Richard Jennings: the production of Jevons's marginalist economic agent Michael V. White; 9. Economics and evolution: Alfred James Lotka and the economy of nature Sharon E. Kingsland; Part IV. Organic Metaphors and their stimuli: 10. Fire, motion, and productivity: the proto-energetics of nature and economy in François Quesnay Paul P. Christensen; 11. Organism as a metaphor in German economic thought Michael Hutter; 12. The greyhound and the mastiff: Darwinian themes in Mill and Marshall Margaret Schabas; 13. Organization and the division of labor: biological metaphors at work in Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics, Camille Limoges and Claude Ménard; 14. The role of biological analogies in the theory of the firm Neil B. Niman; 15. Does evolutionary theory give comfort of inspiration to economics? Alexander Rosenberg; 16. Hayek, evolution, and spontaneous order Geoffrey M. Hodgson; Part V. Negotiating over Nature: 17. The realms of the Natural Philip Mirowski; 18. The place of economics in the hierarchy of the sciences: Section F from Whewell to Edgeworth James P. Henderson; 19. The kinds of order in society James Bernard Murphy; 20. Feminist accounting theory as a critique of what's 'natural' in economics David Chioni Moore; Index.

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