Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:29:09 BST CiteULike: heraclitus's history-of http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/tag/history-of CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2854676 <i>(01 February 2002)</i><br /><br />The world of economics is a complicated and messy place. Yet modern economic analysis rests on an attempt to represent the world by means of simple mathematical models. To what extent is this possible? How can such a program cope with the fact that economic outcomes are often driven by factors that are notoriously difficult to quantify? Can such mathematical modeling lead us to theories that work? In these lectures, John Sutton explores what he calls the "standard paradigm" that lies at the heart of economic model building, whose roots go back a century to the work of Alfred Marshall. In probing the strengths and limitations of this paradigm, he looks at some of the remarkable successes, as well as deep disappointments, that have flowed from it. For sales in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, contact Leuven University Press at fax (+32)16/32.53.52 or universitaire.pers@upers.kuleuven.ac.be Marshall's Tendencies: What Can Economists Know? (Eyskens Lecture): What Can Economists Know? (Eyskens Lecture) J Sutton (01 February 2002) 2008-06-01T13:09:04-00:00 2002 MIT Press alfred-marshall economics history-of http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2854468 <i>(30 April 1992)</i> Essays in the History of Heterodox Political Economy Warren Samuels (30 April 1992) 2008-06-01T10:41:02-00:00 1992 Palgrave Macmillan economics heterodox history-of http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2854233 <i>(21 October 1999)</i><br /><br />This volume examines the history of economics in Europe, emphasizing historical and institutional contexts, economic policy, and the development of economics as a profession. It includes case studies of ten countries in Europe. The Development of Economics in Western Europe Since 1945 (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) (21 October 1999) 2008-06-01T10:27:12-00:00 1999 Routledge economics history-of http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2854193 <i>(30 September 2002)</i> History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective (History of Economic Thought): A Critical Perspective (History of Economic Thought) EK Hunt (30 September 2002) 2008-06-01T10:25:44-00:00 2002 M.E. Sharpe economics history-of http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2854192 <i>(30 September 2002)</i> History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective EK Hunt (30 September 2002) 2008-06-01T10:25:08-00:00 2002 M.E. Sharpe economics history-of http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2854191 <i>(09 March 2000)</i><br /><br />This book represents the first critical attempt to incorporate the question of the canon in the history of economics into contemporary scholarly debate. It discusses how the canon is formed, perpetuated, interpreted and reinterpreted. The Canon in the History of Economics: Critical Essays (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) (09 March 2000) 2008-06-01T10:24:46-00:00 2000 Routledge economics history-of http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2854190 <i>(02 September 2003)</i><br /><br />John Mills provides a critical survey of the way economics has developed. He argues that the main goal of economics should be to show how to achieve a combination of economic growth, full employment, low inflation, avoidance of extreme poverty, and sustainability. From the ancient world up to the late 20th century, that it has failed to do so is neither inevitable nor accidental --It has failed because of a combination of intellectual error and the effects of social and political pressure, which Mills claims could and should have been avoided. A Critical History of Economics John Mills (02 September 2003) 2008-06-01T10:24:07-00:00 2003 Palgrave Macmillan economics history-of http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/202647 <i>(01 May 2002)</i> How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (Science and Cultural Theory) Roy Weintraub (01 May 2002) 2005-05-18T16:47:55-00:00 2002 Duke University Press economics history-of http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2749193 <i>(15 December 2001)</i><br /><br />This is the first cross-over book in the history of science written by an historian of economics, combining a number of disciplinary and stylistic orientations. In it Philip Mirowshki shows how what is conventionally thought to be "history of technology" can be integrated with the history of economic ideas. His analysis combines Cold War history with the history of the postwar economics profession in America and later elsewhere, revealing that the Pax Americana had much to do with the content of such abstruse and formal doctrines such as linear programming and game theory. He links the literature on "cyborg science" found in science studies to economics, an element missing in the literature to date. Mirowski further calls into question the idea that economics has been immune to postmodern currents found in the larger culture, arguing that neoclassical economics has surreptitiously participated in the desconstruction of the integral "Self." Finally, he argues for a different style of economics, an alliance of computational and institutional themes, and challenges the widespread impression that there is nothing else besides American neoclassical economic theory left standing after the demise of Marxism. Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. He teaches in both the economics and science studies communities and has written frequently for academic journals. He is also the author of More Heat than Light (Cambridge, 1992) and editor of Natural Images in Economics (Cambridge, 1994) and Science Bought and Sold (University of Chicago, 2001). Machine Dreams Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science Philip Mirowski (15 December 2001) 2008-05-03T15:56:46-00:00 2001 Cambridge University Press economics game-theory history-of http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/160367 <i>(29 November 1991)</i><br /><br />This is a history of how physics has drawn some inspiration from economics and how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value. The author traces the development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect on the invention and promulgation of neoclassical economics, the modern orthodox theory. More Heat than Light : Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics) Philip Mirowski (29 November 1991) 2005-04-14T04:43:48-00:00 1991 Cambridge University Press economics history-of http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2749192 <i></i><br /><br />A leading scholar of the history and philosophy of economic thought, Philip Mirowski argues that there has been a top-to-bottom transformation in how scientific research is organized and funded in Western countries over the past two decades and that these changes necessitate a reexamination of the ways that science and economics interact. Mirowski insists on the need to bring together the insights of economics, science studies, and the philosophy of science in order to understand how and why particular research programs get stabilized through interdisciplinary appropriation, controlled attributions of error, and funding restrictions. <BR><BR>Mirowski contends that neoclassical economists have persistently presumed and advanced an “effortless economy of science,” a misleading model of a self-sufficient and conceptually self-referential social structure that transcends market operations in pursuit of absolute truth. In the stunning essays collected here, he presents a radical critique of the ways that neoclassical economics is used to support, explain, and legitimate the current social practices underlying the funding and selection of “successful” science projects. He questions a host of theories, including the portraits of science put forth by Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, and Thomas Kuhn. Among the many topics he examines are the social stabilization of quantitative measurement, the repressed history of econometrics, and the social construction of the laws of supply and demand and their putative opposite, the gift economy. In <I>The Effortless Economy of Science? </I>Mirowski moves beyond grand abstractions about science, truth, and democracy in order to begin to talk about the way science is lived and practiced today. The Effortless Economy of Science? (Science and Cultural Theory) Philip Mirowski 2008-05-03T15:55:20-00:00 Duke University Press economics history-of http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2749191 <i>(29 July 1994)</i><br /><br />This collection of interdisciplinary essays is 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. It documents 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 thought. These range from Aristotle's discussion of the division of labor, to Marshall's evocation of population biology, to Hayek's dependence upon evolutionary concepts, and more recently to neoclassical economists' invocation of chaos theory. Natural Images in Economic Thought: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics) Edited (29 July 1994) 2008-05-03T15:54:32-00:00 1994 Cambridge University Press economics history-of