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Against Mechanism


Protecting Economics from Science

Автор(и) : Philip Mirowski

Издател : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Място на издаване : New Jersey, USA

Година на издаване : 1988

ISBN : 0-8476-7436-3

Брой страници : 250

Език : английски

 

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...The core of the volume, and easily the best essay, is the first chapter, "Physics and the `Marginalist Revolution,'" an article that originally appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Economics in 1984. Here Mirowski offers the bold claims that (1) the distinguishing characteristic of the new marginalist economics of the 1870s and 1880s (at Manchester and Lausanne, at least) was not marginal utility at all, but the fact that the new theory was patterned explicitly after physics—in particular, the new physics of energy and the field--in a conscious and deliberate attempt to make economics more "scientific"; and that (2) this same nineteenth-century energetics model has persisted as the basis of modern economics, even long after its abandonment in the physical sciences.
The other essays in the book develop these basic themes, although the quality of the selections is somewhat uneven. Especially noteworthy are chapter six, a further exploration of the role of conservation principles in economics; the review of McCloskey's Rhetoric; and the first few pages of chapter ten on Morishima's Marx's Economics. Less satisfactory, however, are the chapters on Mirowski's own version of ""neo-institutionalist"" economics, which he sees as the preferred alternative to the neoclassical orthodoxy (although nowhere in the volume is a research program explicitly stated). Apparently Mirowski does not mean, by the way, the so-called "New Institutional Economics," which comprises the formal contracting and agency literature and Oliver Williamson's transaction cost economics; none of these are mentioned in the text, even though this is clearly a "hot topic" in microeconomics. In addition, there is no comment on any modern Austrian school writers, Misesian, hermeneutician or otherwise, despite the fact that the Austrians have been loudly "against mechanism" for a long time.

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