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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 The Effortless Economy of Science? 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.
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 The Effortless Economy of Science? 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.
Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Among his books are Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science; More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature’s Economics; and Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science (coedited with Esther-Mirjam Sent).
Introduction: Cracks, Hidden Passageways, and False Bottoms: The Economics of Science and Social Studies Economics 3
1. Confessions of an Aging Enfant Terrible 37
Part Two Science as an Economic Phenomenon 51
2. On Playing the Economics Card in the Philosophy of Science: Why It Didn’t Work for Michael Polanyi 53
3. Economics, Science, and Knowledge: Polanyi versus Hayek 72
4. What’s Kuhn Got to Do with It? 85
5. The Economic Consequences of Philip Kitcher 97
6. Re-engineering Scientific Credit in the Era of Globalized Information Economy 116
Part Three Rigorous Quantitative Measurement as a Social Phenomenon 145
7. Looking for Those Natural Numbers: Dimensionless Constants and the Idea of Natural Measurement 147
8. A Visible Hand in the Marketplace of Ideas: Precision Measurement as Arbitrage 169
Part Four Is Econometrics an Empirical Endeavor? 193
9. Brewing, Betting, and Rationality in London, 1822-1844: What Econometrics Can and Cannot Tell Us about Historical Actors 195
10. Why Econometricians Don’t Replicate (Although They Do Reproduce) 213
11. From Mandlebrot to Chaos in Economic Theory 229
12. Mandelbrot’s Economics after a Quarter-Century 251
13. The Collected Economic Works of William Thomas Thornton: An Introduction and Justification 273
14. Smooth Operator: How Marshall’s Demand and Supply-Curves Made Neoclassicism Safe for Public Consumption but Unfit for Science 335
15. Problems in the Paternity of Econometrics: Harry Ludwell Moore 357
16. Refusing the Gift 376
Notes 401
References 427
Index 459
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
| Genre: | Importe, Wirtschaft |
| Rubrik: | Recht & Wirtschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780822333227 |
| ISBN-10: | 0822333228 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Mirowski, Philip |
| Hersteller: | Duke University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk |
| Maße: | 234 x 149 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Philip Mirowski |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.07.2004 |
| Gewicht: | 0,63 kg |
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