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Papers presented at the Conference on Natural Images in Economics, University of Notre Dame, Sept. 1991 Includes bibliographical references and index Doing what comes naturally : four metanarratives on what metaphors are for / Philip Mirowski -- So what's an economic metaphor? / Arjo Klamer and Thomas C. Leonard -- Newton and the social sciences, with special reference to economics, or, the case of the missing paradigm / I. Bernard Cohen -- From virtural velocities to economic action : the very slow arrivals of linear programming and locational equilibrium / Ivor Grattan-Guinness -- Qualitative dynamics in economics and fluid mechanics : a comparison of recent applications / Randall Bausor -- Rigor and practicality : rival ideals of quantification in nineteenth-century economics / Theodore M. Porter -- Economic man, economic machine : images of circulation in the Victorian money market / Timothy L. Alborn -- The moment of Richard Jennings : the production of Jevons's marginalist economic agent / Michael V. White -- Economics and evolution : Alfred James Lotka and the economy of nature / Sharon E. Kingsland -- Fire, motion, and productivity : the proto-energetics of nature and econo

Author
Mirowski, Philip
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Published
1994
Language
EN
ISBN
9780521443210

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