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47The Pure and the Applied: Bourbakism Comes to Mathematical EconomicsScience in Context 7 (2): 245-272. 1994.The ArgumentIn the minds of many, the Bourbakist trend in mathematics was characterized by pursuit of rigor to the detriment of concern for applications or didactic concessions to the nonmathematician, which would seem to render the concept of a Bourbakist incursion into a field of applied mathematices an oxymoron. We argue that such a conjuncture did in fact happen in postwar mathematical economics, and describe the career of Gérard Debreu to illustrate how it happened. Using the work of Leo Co…Read more
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39Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900–1960 (review)Isis 102 574-575. 2011.
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14Richard Bronk. The Romantic Economist: Imagination in Economics. xviii + 382 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. $27.99 (review)Isis 101 (1): 187-189. 2010.
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8Building Chicago Economics: New Perspectives on the History of America's Most Powerful Economics Program (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2011.Over the past forty years, economists associated with the University of Chicago have won more than one-third of the Nobel prizes awarded in their discipline and have been major influences on American public policy. Building Chicago Economics presents the first collective attempt by social science historians to chart the rise and development of the Chicago School during the decades that followed the Second World War. Drawing on new research in published and archival sources, contributors examine …Read more
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2020 The spontaneous methodology of orthodoxy, and other economists' afflictions in the Great RecessionIn J. B. Davis & D. W. Hands (eds.), Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology, Edward Elgar Publishers. pp. 473. 2011.
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6How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by Katherine Hayles (review)Isis 91 639-640. 2000.
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66Economics and Evolution, Geoffrey Hodgson. University of Michigan Press, 1993, xi + 381 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 11 (2): 366. 1995.
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9D. Wade Hands, Reflection Without Rules: Economic Methodology And Contemporary Science Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2001), 492 pp., $95.00 (cloth), $35.00 (paper) (review)Philosophy of Science 69 (2): 384-386. 2002.
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60The role of conservation principles in twentieth-century economic theoryPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 14 (4): 461-473. 1984.
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36L'irraisonnable efficacité des mathématiques en économie moderneRue Descartes 74 (2): 117. 2012.
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71The Modern Commercialization of Science is a Passel of Ponzi Schemes1Social Epistemology 26 (3-4): 285-310. 2012.A wide array of phenomena lumped together under the rubric of the ?commercialization of science,? the ?commodification of research,? and the ?marketplace of ideas? are both figuratively and literally Ponzi schemes. This thesis grows out of my experience of working on two concurrent projects: the first, an attempt to understand the forces behind the progressive commercialization of science; and the second, when it dawned upon me that the financial crisis then unfolding was resulting in the deepes…Read more
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1How positivism made a pact with the postwar social sciences in the United StatesIn George Steinmetz (ed.), The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and its Epistemological Others, Duke University Press. pp. 142--72. 2005.
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4The Commercialization of Science, and the Response of STSIn Edward Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch & Judy Wajcman (eds.), The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, Mit Press. pp. 635-89. 2007.
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68Economics, Science, and KnowledgeTradition and Discovery 25 (1): 29-42. 1998.The relationship between Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi is documented and explored with respect to philosophy and economics. Their respective positions on epistemology and science are shown to fundamentally govern their differences with regard to the efficacy of government policy with regard to the economy
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6Review of A Brief History of Neoliberalism (review)Economics and Philosophy 24 (1): 111-117. 2008.
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334. The Rise of the Chicago School of Economics and the Birth of NeoliberalismIn Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface, Harvard University Press. pp. 139-178. 2015.
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8Natural Images in Economic Thought: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1994.This 1994 collection of interdisciplinary essays was 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. The contributors, historians of science and economics alike, document 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 discus…Read more
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12More bleat than bite responses to Barnes, Cohen, hands, and wisePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 22 (1): 131-141. 1992.
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18How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Katherine HaylesIsis 91 (3): 639-640. 2000.
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The Contract Research Organization and the Commercialization of Scientific ResearchSocial Studies of Science 35 (4): 503-48. 2005.
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3Hugh Lacey, Is Science Value Free?: Values & Scientific Understanding. Routledge (1999), xiv, 285 pp., $90.00 (cloth) (review)Philosophy of Science 69 (2): 386-389. 2002.
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1Refusing the giftIn Stephen Cullenberg, Jack Amariglio & David F. Ruccio (eds.), Postmodernism, economics and knowledge, Routledge. pp. 431--458. 2001.
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