Part I. The Natural and the Social:
1. "Doing what comes naturally: four metanarratives on what metaphors
are for" Philip Mirowski;
2. "So what’s an economic metaphor?" Arjo Klamer and Thomas
C. Leonard;
Part II. Physical metaphors and mathematical formalization:
3. "Newton and the social sciences, with special reference to economics,
or, the case of the missing paradigm" I. Bernard Cohen
4. "From virtual velocities to economic action: the very slow arrivals
of linear programming and locational equilibrium" Ivor Grattan-Guinness
5. "Qualitative dynamics in economics and fluid mechanics: a comparison
of recent applications" Randall Bausor
6."Rigor and practicality: rival ideals of quantification in nineteenth-century
economics" Theodore M. Porter
Part III. Uneasy boundaries between man and machine:
7. "Economic man, economic machine: images of circulation in the
Victorian money market" Timothy L. Alborn;
8. "The moment of Richard Jennings: the production of Jevons’s marginalist
economic agent" Michael V. White;
9. "Economics and evolution: Alfred James Lotka and the economy
of nature" Sharon E. Kingsland.
Part IV. Organic Metaphors and their stimuli:
10. "Fire, motion, and productivity: the proto-energetics of nature
and economy in Francois Quesnay" Paul P. Christensen;
11. "Organism as a metaphor in German economic thought" Michael
Hutter;
12. "The greyhound and the mastiff: Darwinian themes in Mill and
Marshall" Margaret Schabas;
13. "Organization and the division of labor: biological metaphors
at work in Alfred Marshall’s Principles of Economics" Camille Limoges
and Claude Menard;
14. "The role of biological analogies in the theory of the firm"
Neil B. Niman;
15. "Does evolutionary theory give comfort of inspiration to economics?"
Alexander Rosenberg;
16. "Hayek, evolution, and spontaneous order" Geoffrey M. Hodgson.
Part V. Negotiating Over Nature:
17. "The realms of the Natural" Philip Mirowski;
18. "The place of economics in the hierarchy of the sciences: Section
F from Whewell to Edgeworth" James P. Henderson;
19. "The kinds of order in society" James Bernard Murphy;
20. "Feminist accounting theory as a critique of what’s ‘natural’
in economics" David Chioni Moore.