Natural images in economic thought

Papers presented at the Conference on Natural Images in Economics, University of Notre Dame, Sept. 1991 Includes bibliographical references and index Doing what comes naturally : four metanarratives on what metaphors are for / Philip Mirowski -- So what's an economic metaphor? / Arjo Klamer and Thomas C. Leonard -- Newton and the social sciences, with special reference to economics, or, the case of the missing paradigm / I. Bernard Cohen -- From virtural velocities to economic action : the very slow arrivals of linear programming and locational equilibrium / Ivor Grattan-Guinness -- Qualitative dynamics in economics and fluid mechanics : a comparison of recent applications / Randall Bausor -- Rigor and practicality : rival ideals of quantification in nineteenth-century economics / Theodore M. Porter -- Economic man, economic machine : images of circulation in the Victorian money market / Timothy L. Alborn --^ The moment of Richard Jennings : the production of Jevons's marginalist economic agent / Michael V. White -- Economics and evolution : Alfred James Lotka and the economy of nature / Sharon E. Kingsland -- Fire, motion, and productivity : the proto-energetics of nature and economy in François Quesnay / Paul P. Christensen -- Organism as a metaphor in German economic thought / Michael Hutter -- The greyhound and the mastiff : Darwinian themes in Mill and Marshall / Margaret Schabas -- Organization and the division of labor : biological metaphors at work in Alfred Marshall's Principles of economics / Camille Limoges and Claude Ménard -- The role of biological analogies in the theory of the firm / Neil B. Niman -- Does evolutionary theory give comfort or inspiration to economics? / Alexander Rosenberg -- Hayek, evolution, and spontaneous order / Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- The realms of the natural / Philip Mirowski --^ The place of economics in the hierarchy of the sciences : Section F from Whewell to Edgeworth / James P. Henderson -- The kinds of order in society / James Bernard Murphy -- Feminist accounting theory as a critique of what's "natural" in economics / David Chioni Moore.