The development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect on the emergence of neoclassical economics are traced to reveal how economics

Published in 1989, Philip Mirowski's More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physic's as Nature's Economics offered a challenge to historians of econ

'...the history of economic theory at its best.'-EASTERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL

This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, thro