Nonnatural Social Science: Reflecting On The Enterprise Of 'More Heat Than Light' (Volume 25) (History Of Political Economy Ann,Used

Nonnatural Social Science: Reflecting On The Enterprise Of 'More Heat Than Light' (Volume 25) (History Of Political Economy Ann,Used

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Published in 1989, Philip Mirowskis More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Natures Economics offered a challenge to historians of economics that could not be ignored. Neoclassical economics, he said, adopted certain analytical tools of midnineteenthcentury physics, simply substituting utility for energy, and in so doing, chose a naturalworld model which denied that economic knowledge might be essentially social and cultural. The essays in this collection represent the first collective effort to respond to Mirowskis challenge by examining and assessing the Mirowski enterprise.In addition to questioning the veracity of the connection between physics and economics, the contributors consider the farreaching implications of Mirowskis thesis for the history of economics. Mirowski shows that economic texts must be viewed in their relation to texts outside the field of economics and offers an alternative reading of economic texts as social and cultural inscriptions. As historians of economics respond to Mirowskis challenge, the style and direction of their work will be changed. Utlimately, a careful assessment of More Heat Than Light may introduce historians of economics to recognize that the discipline of economics may not be the most appropriate category from which to proceed.Contributors. Jack Birner, Marcel Boumans, A. W. Coats, Avi J. Cohen, I. Bernard Cohen, Neil de Marchi, Steve Fuller, Clifford G. Gaddy, Wade Hands, Albert Jolink, Arjo Klamer, Robert Leonard, Philip Mirowski, Theodore M. Porter, Margaret Schabas, E. Roy Weintraub

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