More Heat Than Light

Author : Philip Mirowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521426893
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Heat Than Light written by Philip Mirowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value.

Author : Philip Mirowski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742569616
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Mechanism written by Philip Mirowski and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1992-01-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...the history of economic theory at its best.'-EASTERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL

Author : Jeremy Walker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811539367
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Heat than Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy, and Economics written by Jeremy Walker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene. Reconstructing their constitution as separate sciences in the era of fossil-fuelled industrial capitalism, the book offers an explanation of how the ecological sciences have moved from a position of critical collision with mainstream economics in the 1970s, to one of collusion with the project of permanent growth, in and through the thermal crisis of the biosphere.

Author : Philip Mirowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521775267
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machine Dreams written by Philip Mirowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first cross-over book into the history of science written by an historian of economics. It shows how 'history of technology' can be integrated with the history of economic ideas. The analysis combines Cold War history with the history of postwar economics in America and later elsewhere, revealing that the Pax Americana had much to do with abstruse and formal doctrines such as linear programming and game theory. It links the literature on 'cyborg' to economics, an element missing in literature to date. The treatment further calls into question the idea that economics has been immune to postmodern currents, arguing that neoclassical economics has participated in the deconstruction of the integral 'self'. Finally, it argues for an alliance of computational and institutional themes, and challenges the widespread impression that there is nothing else besides American neoclassical economic theory left standing after the demise of Marxism.

Author : Jennifer Haigh
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062199080
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heat and Light written by Jennifer Haigh and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of farming. He doesn’t count on the truck traffic and nonstop noise, his brother’s skepticism or the paranoia of his wife, Shelby, who insists the water smells strange and is poisoning their frail daughter. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling—until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resources. Soaring and ambitious, it zooms from drill rig to shareholders’ meeting to the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to the ruined landscape of the “strippins,” haunting reminders of Pennsylvania’s past energy booms. This is a dispatch from a forgotten America—a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book.

Author : David Carroll Simon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723413
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light without Heat written by David Carroll Simon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value, Simon describes the appeal of open-ended receptivity to the protagonists of the New Science. In straying from the work of self-possession and the duty to sift fact from fiction, early modern intellectuals discovered the cognitive advantages of the undisciplined mind. Exploring the influence of what he calls the "observational mood" on both poetry and prose, Simon offers new readings of Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Izaak Walton, Henry Power, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton. He also extends his inquiry beyond the boundaries of early modernity, arguing for a literary theory that trades strict methodological commitment for an openness to lawless drift.

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134099371
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Phelps
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 : 9780787942861
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Light, Less Heat written by Joseph Phelps and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So often the call to dialogue masks a requirement that we set aside our deepest convictions on important questions. This book should be required reading for everyone who is about to enter into a potentially divisive debate. ?Richard Mouw, president, Fuller Theological Seminary This breakthrough guide introduces a powerful armistice for those battling the Christian culture war??Dialogue.' As a basic healing practice, dialogue enables people to discuss issues and disagreements in ways that allow them to learn from each other without attempting to demonize or convert the other's thinking. Dialogue enables Christians at the grassroots level to effectively speak for themselves and listen deeply to each other, discussing fundamental disagreements in open, constructive, and mutually respectful ways. Pinpointing what separates the Christian left and right, More Light, Less Heat provides the tools individuals need to constructively engage in dialogue, demonstrating how participants can strengthen their arguments and bring forth a mutual understanding of their adversaries. In ways that will decrease the isolation and anxiety that often accompanies such faith-based debates, the author offers clear and concrete models to help participants better articulate their beliefs while understanding the beliefs of others.

Author : Philip Mirowski
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781683026
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste written by Philip Mirowski and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. Yet in the harsh light of a new day, attacks against government intervention and the global drive for austerity are as strong as ever. Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste is the definitive account of the wreckage of what passes for economic thought, and how neoliberal ideas were used to solve the very crisis they had created. Now updated with a new afterword, Philip Mirowski’s sharp and witty work provides a roadmap for those looking to escape today’s misguided economic dogma.

Author : Philip E. Mirowski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317512227
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of the Business Cycle (RLE: Business Cycles) written by Philip E. Mirowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing economic theory and English economic history from the eighteenth century until the late 1970s this volume discusses among other things fixed capital and problems with the definition of the premodern economy as well as providing a chronology of 18th century business cycles.