Philip E. Mirowski
ADDRESS: Department of Economics
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
PHONE: office (219) 631-7580
fax: 219 631 8209
INTERNET: Philip.E.Mirowski.1@nd.edu
DEGREES: Michigan State University B.A. Economics 1973
University of Michigan M.A. Economics 1976
University of Michigan PhD Economics 1979
Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Notre Dame, 1990-
Visiting Professor, University of Modena, Italy, May 1998
Visiting Professor, Universite de Paris I -- Sorbonne, March- May 1997
Visiting Professor, Tinbergen Institute, University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University, Holland, February-May 1991
Visiting Associate Professor, Yale University, 1987-88
Associate Professor, Tufts University 1985-90
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1984-85
Assistant Professor, Tufts University, 1981-84
Assistant Professor, University of Santa Clara, 1978-81
Research Associate, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University
of Michigan, 1976-78
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS
National Institute of Health Fellowship, 1974-1977
National Endowment for the Humanities, Interpretative Research Grant #Rh-20810-87, "Mathematics as a Means of Metaphor Transfer" 1987-89.
National Science Foundation, SBER-9601056, "Economics of Science" 1997
Who's Who in America; Who's Who in the Midwest
BOOKS:
[1] The Birth of the Business Cycle, New York: Garland Publishers, 1985.
[2] (editor) The Reconstruction of Economic Theory, Hingham, Massachusetts: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1986.
[3] Against Mechanism: Protecting Economics From Science, Totawa, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988.
[4] More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1989.
French translation: Paris: Economica, 1999.
[5] (editor) Edgeworth on Chance, Economic Hazard, and Statistics. Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994.
[6] (editor) Natural Images in Economics: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
[7] (editor) The Collected Economic Works of William Thomas Thornton London: Chatto & Pickering. forthcoming.
[8] Machine Dreams: Economics becomes a Cyborg Science. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.
[9] Science Bought and Sold: The New Economics of Science. (editor, with Esther-Mirjam Sent), forthcoming, Univ. of Chicago Press.
ARTICLES IN BOOKS AND OTHER COLLECTIONS:
[1] "Institutions as Solution Concepts in a Game Theory Context" in Larry Samuelson, editor, Microeconomic Theory, Hingham, Massachusetts: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1986. Reprinted in Geoff Hodgson, editor, The Economics of Institutions. Cheltenham: Elgar, 1993.
[2] "Paradigms, Hard Cores and Fuglemen in Modern Economic Theory" in P. Mirowski, editor, The Reconstruction of Economic Theory.
[3] "Mathematical Formalism and Economic Explanation" in P. Mirowski, editor, The Reconstruction of Economic Theory.
[4] "The Philosophical Bases of Institutionalist Economics" in Marc Tool, editor, Institutional Economics, Vol. I, Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 1988.
[5] "Shall I Compare Thee..." in Robert Solow, Donald McCloskey and Arjo Klamer, editors, The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 117-145.
[6] "Three Vignettes on the State of Economic Rhetoric" in Neil de Marchi, editor, Post-Popperian Methodology of Economics, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.
[7] "The Philosophical Bases of Institutionalist Economics: Peirce and Commons" in Don Lavoie, editor, Hermeneutics and Economics, London: Routledge, 1991.
[8] Entries for "William Stanley Jevons" and "Henry Ludwell Moore" in David Glaisner, ed., Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia, New York: Garland, 1997.
[9] "Walras' Economics and Mechanics: Translation, Commentary, Context" (with Pamela Cook), in Warren Samuels, editor, Economics as Discourse, Norwell: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1990, pp. 189-215.
[10] "The Probabilistic Counter-Revolution" in Neil de Marchi and Christopher Gilbert, editors, The History and Methodology of Econometrics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 217-235.
[11] "Smooth Operator: How Marshall's Demand and Supply Curves Made Neoclassicism Safe for Public Consumption But Unfit for Science" in R. Tullberg, editor, Alfred Marshall in Retrospect, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1990, pp. 61-90.
[12] "Maquiladoras: Mexico's Tiger by the Tail?" (with Sue Helper), Challenge, May/June 1989, pp. 24-30.
[13] "Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen" in Warren Samuels, editor, New Horizons in Economic Thought: An Appraisal of Ten Leading Economists, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1992, pp. 86-105.
[14] "Comment on Weintraub" in Mark Blaug and Neil de Marchi, editors, Appraising Economic Theories, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1991, pp. 291-293.
[15] "Comment on Margaret Schabas' Breaking Away’," History of Political Economy, Spring 1992, 24:221-223.
[16] "The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick," in Neil de Marchi, editor, Nonnatural Social Science: Reflections on the Project of More Heat than Light," Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993, pp. 305-349.
[17] "Some Suggestions for Linking Arbitrage, Symmetries and the Social Theory of Value," in Amitava Dutt, editor, New Directions in Analytical Political Economy, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994, pp. 185-210.
[18] "Charles Sanders Peirce" entry in Handbook of Evolutionary and Institutionalist Economics, G. Hodgson, M. Tool and W. Samuels, editors. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994, pp. 149-152.
[19] "The Realms of the Natural," Carl Koch Professorship Inaugural Lecture, in Mirowski, editor, Natural Images in Economics: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 451-483.
[20] "Doing What Comes Naturally: Four Metanarratives on What Metaphors are For," in Mirowski, editor, Natural Images in Economics, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 3-19.
[21] "Marshalling the Unruly Atoms: Understanding Edgeworth's Career," in Mirowski, editor. Edgeworth on Chance,..., Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994.
[22] "What Are the Questions?" in Roger Backhouse, editor, New Directions in Economic Methodology. London: Routledge, 1994, pp. 50-74.
[23] "Comment on Feigenbaum and Levy," Social Epistemology, July-September 1993, 7:278-283.
[24] Entries on "Probability," pp.393-4; "Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen," pp.212-13; and "Operationalism" pp.346-9 in J. Davis, D.W. Hands and U. Maki, editors, Handbook of Economic Methodology. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1998.
[25] "Confessions of an Aging Enfant Terrible" in Michael Szenberg, editor, Passion and Craft, forthcoming, University of Michigan Press. Also in The American Economist, Summer 1994, 38:28-35.
[26] "Do You Know the Way to Santa Fe? or, Political Economy Gets More Complex" in Explorations in Political Economy: Malvern After Ten Years, S. Pressman, editor, London: Routledge, 1996, pp.13-40.
[27] "The Attribution of Quantitative Error and the Erasure of Plural Interpretations in Various Sciences," and "Comment on Hodgson" in Andrea Salanti and Ernesto Screpanti, editors, Pluralism in Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1996.
[28] "A Confederacy of Bunches: Comment on Niehans on Multiple Discoveries," European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, Autumn 1995, (2): 279-289.
[29] "Refusing the Gift" in Steven Cullenberg, editor, Postmodernism and Economics. London: Routledge, forthcoming.
[30] "Economics, Science and Knowledge: Polanyi vs. Hayek," in Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical. 1998-9, (25:1):29-42.
[31] "Harold Hotelling and the Neoclassical Dream" (with Wade Hands), pp.322-397 in Economics and Methodology: Crossing Boundaries, edited by Roger Backhouse, D.Hausman, U.Maki & A. Salanti, London: Macmillan, 1998.
[32] "Comment on Arthur Diamond's version of an economics of science" Knowledge and Policy, Summer/Fall 1996, (2/3):72-75.
[33] "A History of Classical and Frequentist Approaches to Probability in Economics" in James Henderson, ed., The State of the History of Economics, London: Routledge, 1997.
[34] “What Econometrics Can and Can’t tell us about the Historical Actors” in S. Medema, et al, eds. Festschrift for Warren Samuels, Boston: Kluwer, forthcoming.
[35] “Ratio Ex Machina” in Center 11, Austin: University of Texas School of Architecture, forthcoming.
[36] “Inhuman, All too Inhuman” Nineteenth Century Contexts, forthcoming.
[37] (with Koye Somefun) “Fecund, Cheap and Out of Control: Heterogeneous Agents as Flawed Computers vs. Markets as Evolving Computational Entities” in Mauro Gallegati & Alan Kirman, eds., Proceedings from a Conference on Heterogeneous Interacting Agents. Berlin: Springer Verlag, forthcoming.
[38] “Economism from Affront to Facade” in Amitava Dutt and Kenneth Jamison, eds., Economic Philosophy, Institutions and Development: Essays in Honor of Charles Wilber. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming.
[39] “Cyborg Values” in Caroline Gerschlager, ed., Deceptive Exchanges, forthcoming.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES:
[1] "The Birth of the Business Cycle" (thesis summary with published session commentary on pp. 182-183). Journal of Economic History, March 1980, pp. 171-174.
[2] "The Rise (and Retreat) of a Market: English Joint Stock Shares in the Eighteenth Century." Journal of Economic History, September 1981, pp. 559-577.
[3] "Is There a Mathematical Neo-Institutional Economics?" Journal of Economic Issues, September 1981, pp. 593-613. Reprinted in Warren Samuels, editor, Institutional Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1989.
[4] "Adam Smith, Empiricism and the Rate of Profit in Eighteenth Century England." History of Political Economy, Summer 1982, pp. 178-198. Reprinted in Mark Blaug, editor, Adam Smith, Vol. II. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1989.
[5] "What's Wrong With the Laffer Curve?" Journal of Economic Issues, September 1982, pp. 815-828.
[6] "The Falling Share of Corporate Taxation" with co-author Arthur Schwartz, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Fall-Winter 1982-83, pp. 245-256.
[7] "The Role of Conservation Principles in Twentieth Century Economic Theory." Philosophy of the Social Sciences, December 1984, pp. 461-473.
[8] "Macroeconomic Instability and 'Natural' Processes in Early Neoclassical Economics." Journal of Economic History, June 1984, pp. 345-354.
[9] "Physics and the Marginalist Revolution." Cambridge Journal of Economics, December 1984, pp. 361-379. Reprinted in Mark Blaug, editor, The History of Economic Thought. Cheltenham: Elgar, 1990.
[10] "Interest Rates and Crowding Out During Britain's Industrial Revolution," with co-author Carol Heim, Journal of Economic History, March 1987, pp. 117-139.
[11] "Shall I Compare Thee to a Minkowski-Ricardo-Leontief-Metzler Matrix of the Mosak-Hicks Type? Rhetoric, Mathematics, and the Nature of Neoclassical Theory." Economics and Philosophy, April 1987, 3:67-96.
[12] "What Do Markets Do?" Explorations in Economic History, April 1987, pp. 107-129.
[13] "The Philosophical Bases of Institutionalist Economics." Journal of Economic Issues, September 1987, pp. 1001-1038.
[14] "The Probabilistic Counter-revolution: The Advent of Probabilistic Concepts in Neoclassical Economics." Oxford Economic Papers, March 1989, pp. 217-235.
[15] "Rates of Interest in Eighteenth Century England," with Kenneth Weiller, Explorations in Economic History, January 1990, pp. 1-28.
[16] "'Tis a Pity Econometrics Isn't an Empirical Endeavor: Mandelbrot, Chaos, and the Noah and Joseph Effects," Ricerche Economiche, June-July 1989, pp. 76-99.
[17] "How Not to Do Things with Metaphors: Paul Samuelson and the Science of Neoclassical Economics," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, June 1989, pp. 175-191.
[18] "On Hollander's 'Substantive Identity' of Classical and Neoclassical Economics: Mirowski on Hollander on Mirowski," Cambridge Journal of Economics, September 1989, pp. 471-477.
[19] "The How, the When and the Why of Mathematical Expression in the History of Economics," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1991, 5:145-158.
[20] "The Measurement Without Theory Controversy: Defeating Rival Research Programs by Accusing Them of Naive Empiricism," Economies et Soci?t?s, Serie Oeconomia (France), 1989, pp. 65-87.
[21] "The Rhetoric of Economics," History of the Human Sciences, June 1990, pp. 243-257.
[22] "The Rise and Fall of the Equilibrium Concept in Economics From Walras to Mandelbrot," Recherches ?conomiques de Louvain, 1989, 55(4):447-468.
[23] "Problems in the Paternity of Econometrics: Henry Ludwell Moore," History of Political Economy, Winter 1990, 22:587-609.
[24] "Learning the Value of a Dollar: Conservation Principles and the Social Theory of Value," Social Research, Fall 1990, pp. 689-718. German translation: Prokla 88, September 1992, pp. 388-412.
[25] "Postmodernism and the Social Theory of Economic Value."
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Summer 1991, 13:565-582. Reprinted
in Geoffrey Hodgson, editor, The Economics of Institutions. Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar, 1993.
[26] "What Were Von Neumann and Morgenstern Trying to Accomplish?" In E. Roy Weintraub, editor, Towards a History of Game Theory. Supplement to History of Political Economy, 1992, 24:113-147.
[27] "From Mandelbrot to Chaos in Economic Theory," Southern Economic Journal, October 1990, 57:289-307. Reprinted in: Omar Hamouda & J. Rowley, eds., Foundations of Probability, Econometrics and Economic Games. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
[28] (with Steven Sklivas) "Why Econometricians Don't Replicate (Although They Do Reproduce)," Review of Political Economy, 1991, 3:146-163.
[29] "When Games Grow Deadly Serious: The Influence of the Military on the Evolution of Game Theory," in Economics and National Security, Craufurd Goodwin, editor, Annual Supplement to Vol. 23, History of Political Economy, 1991, pp. 227-255.
[30] "Looking for those Natural Numbers: Dimensionless Constants and the Idea of Natural Measurement," Science in Context, Spring 1992, 5:165-188.
[31] (with co-author Carol Heim), "Reply to Black and Gilmore," Journal of Economic History, September 1991, 51:701-706.
[32] "Do Economists Suffer from Physics Envy?" Finnish Economic Papers, Spring 1992, 5:61-68. Spanish translation: Economia Informa, Dec. 1997, (263): 21-28.
[33] "More Bleat than Bite: Reply to Barnes, Cohen, Hands and Wise," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, March 1992, 22:131-141.
[34] "Three Ways to Think about Testing in Econometrics." Journal of Econometrics, 1995, (76):25-46.
[35] "Tit for Tat: Concepts of Exchange, Higgling, and Barter in the History of Economic Anthropology," History of Political Economy, Supplement to Vol.26, Higgling, editors, Neil de Marchi and Mary Morgan, 1994, pp. 313-342.
[36] "What Could Mathematical Rigor Mean? Three Reactions to G?del in mid-twentieth Century Economics," History of Economics Review, Summer 1993, 20:41-60.
[37] "A Visible Hand in the Marketplace of Ideas: Precision Measurement as Arbitrage," Science in Context, Autumn 1994, 7(3):563-589. Reprinted in Michael Power, ed. Accounting and Science: Natural Inquiry and Commercial Reason , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
[38] (with Roy Weintraub) "The Pure and the Applied: Bourbakism Comes to Mathematical Economics" Science in Context, Summer 1994, 7:245-272.
[39] "Civilization and its Discounts," Dialogue, Summer 1995, (34):541-560.
[40] "The Economic Consequences of Philip Kitcher," Social Epistemology, 1996, (10):153-169.
[41] "Mandelbrot's Economics after a quarter-century," Fractals, 1995, (3:3): 581-600. Reprinted in H.Peitgen & R.Voss, eds., Fractal Geometry and Analysis. Singapore: World Scientific, 1996.
[42] "On Playing the Economics Trump Card in the Philosophy of Science: Why It Didn't Work for Michael Polanyi" Philosophy of Science, PSA 97 Supplement to vol.64: S127-S138.
[43] "Machine Dreams: Economic Agent as Cyborg" in John Davis, ed., The New Economics and its History, supplement to vol. 29 of History of Political Economy, 1998: pp.13-40. Spanish translation in Politica y Sociadad, no.21, 1996, pp.113-131.
[44] (with Wade Hands) “A Paradox of Budgets” in On the Transformation of American Economics: From Prewar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism. 1998 Supplement to vol.30 History of Political Economy. Eds. M. Rutherford & M. Morgan. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1998, pp.260-292.
[45] (with Koye Somefun) “Markets as Evolving Computational Entities”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 1998, (8):329-356.
[46] “Cyborg Agonistes” Social Studies of Science, October 1999.
[47] . “Exploring the Fault Lines: Problems in the History of Economic Anthropology” History of Political Economy, forthcoming.
BOOK REVIEWS AND REVIEW ARTICLES
[1] Review of E.R. Weintraub, Microfoundations, and Irving Kristol, editor, The Crisis in Economic Theory, in Contemporary Crisis, December 1981.
[2] Review of David Jeremy, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution, in Technology and Culture, October 1982.
[3] Review of Russell MacCormmach, Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist, in History of Political Economy, Spring 1983.
[4] Review article on Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, in Journal of Economic Issues, September 1983.
[5] Review of Ben Fine, Theories of the Capitalist Economy, in History of Political Economy, Winter 1983.
[6] Review of Karl Pribram, A History of Economic Reasoning, in Journal of Economic Literature, September 1984.
[7] Review of P. Wiles & G. Routh, editors, Economics in Disarray, in Journal of Economic Issues, December 1985.
[8] Review of Lawrence Boland, Methodology for a New Microeconomics, in Journal of Economic Literature, March 1987.
[9] Review of Robert Fisher, The Logic of Economic Discovery, in Journal of Economic History, March 1987.
[10] Review of Roger Backhouse, History of Modern Economic Analysis, in Journal of Economic Literature, December 1987.
[11] Review Essay "Energy and Energetics in Economic Theory" on W. van Gool & J. Bruggink, editors, Energy and Time in The Economic and Physical Sciences, and J. Dragan & M. Demetrescu, Entropy and Bioeconomics: The New Paradigm of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, in Journal of Economic Issues, September 1988, pp. 811-830.
[12] Review of Lorenz Kruger, Lorraine Daston, et al., editors, The Probabilistic Revolution, and Theodore Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking, in History of Political Economy, Spring 1990.
[13] Review of Julian Hoppit, Risk and Return in British Business, 1700-1800, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, March 1989.
[14] Review of J. Boyd & J. Blatt, Investment Confidence and Business Cycles, in Journal of Economic Literature, June 1989.
[15] Review of J. King, Economic Exiles, in Journal of Economic
History, December 1989.
[16] Review of Margaret Schabas, A World Ruled by Number, in Isis, September 1992, pp. 501-502.
[17] Review of Henry Woo, What's Wrong With Formalization in Economics? in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 7, 1990, pp. 281-283.
[18] Review of Arjo Klamer & David Colander, The Making of an Economist, in Journal of Economic Literature, March 1991.
[19] Review of Giorgio Israel & Bruna Ingrao, The Invisible Hand, in Eastern Economic Journal, October 1991.
[20] Review of R. Sato and R. Ramnachandran, editors, Conservation Laws and Symmetry: Applications to Economics and Finance, in Journal of Economic Literature, March 1992.
[21] Review of Larry Neal, The Rise of Financial Capitalism, in Business History Review, Spring 1993.
[22] Review of Herbert Simon, Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution, in Southern Economic Journal, January 1994.
[23] Review Essay on Philip Kitcher, The Advancement of Science, in Review of Political Economy, Summer 1995, (7:2): 227-241.
[24] Review of Howard Margolis, Paradigms and Barriers, in Journal of Economic Literature, December 1994.
[25] Review of Geoff Hodgson, Economics and Evolution, in Economics and Philosophy, October 1995, (11): 366-370.
[26] Review of I.B. Cohen, Interactions, in American Journal of Sociology, November 1995.
[27] Review of Theodore Porter, Trust in Numbers, in History of Political Economy, Fall 1996.
[28] Review of Trevor Barnes, Logics of Dislocation, in Canadian Geographer, Fall 1997, (41):335.
[29] Review of Antoine d’Autumne & Jean Cartelier, eds., Is Economics Becoming a Hard Science? In Journal of Economic Literature, June 1998.
[30] Review of Yuval Yonay, The Struggle over the Soul of Economics, in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Method, forthcoming.
[31] Review of Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind, in Economics and Philosophy, forthcoming.
[32] Review of Deborah Redman, The Rise of Economics as a Science, and Mary Poovey, The Making of the Modern Fact, in Journal of the History of Economic Thought, forthcoming.
[33] Review of Melvin Reder, Economics: the Culture of a Science in Business History Review, forthcoming.
[34] Review of N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, in Isis, forthcoming.
INTERVIEWS, ETC.
[1] Visa Heinonen, "Talous, instituutiot ja kulttuuri" Finnish
Economic Journal, 1992, 88:50-63.
[2] Conversation with Visa Heinonen, "Economics as the Physics
of Society," Review of Political Economy, October 1993, 5:508-531.
[3] “The lesson to be taken from this...Anything doesn’t go in value”
Kurswechel, 1997, Heft 4: 30-35.
[4] “Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen” RAI Italian television, May 1997.
RECENT CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
“RAND/OR” American Economics Assn, New York, January. 1999.
“Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science” Invited Plenary Lecture, HETSA, Univ. Of Western Sydney, Australia, July 1998.
“What should be Bounded When it comes to Bounded Rationality?” Monash University, Melbourne Australia, July 1998; Paidea International Conference of Philosophy, Boston, Mass., August 1998.
“Markets as Evolving Computational Entities”, Conference on Social Interactions and Computing, Ancona, Italy, May 1998; University of Modena, Italy, May 1998, Melbourne University, July 1998.
“Inhuman, All too Inhuman” Plenary session, Interdisciplinary 19th Century Studies Assn, New Orleans, April 1998.
“The Military, the Scientists, and the Changed Rules of the Game,” Duke Univ., Nov. 1997; University of Witten, Germany, June 1998.
“The Exchanging of the Avant Garde,” Symposium on Marshall Sahlins’ Stone Age Economics, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 1997.
Lectures on Evolutionary Economics, EEAPE Summer School, Hania, Crete, July 1997.
“Simulacra vs. Automata” Symposium on Complexity in Economics, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, April 1997.
"Economics as a Cyborg Science", Fischbein Center, University of Chicago, Jan. 1997.
“Ratio ex Machina” Invited lecture to the Symposium on the Question of Economic Value, University of Texas--Austin, October 1996.
“Problems of Value in Economics and Anthropology” at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Workshop on “Die Welt des Tauches”, Vienna Austria, October 1996.
"Ecology in the Mirror of Economics" at workshop on "Making Sense of the Ecology" Pori, Finland, August 1996.
"Maxwell's Demon and Entropy Reversal Come to Economics," Seminaire de l'Adse, 1996; Ecoles des Mines, Paris, Feb. 1996.
"Three Types of Limitations in Computational Economics," ATOM, Univ. of Paris-I, Sorbonne; Feb. 1996.
"Machine Dreams" Duke Conference on New Writing in the History of Economics, Durham NC, March 1996.
"On Playing the Economics Trump Card in the Philosophy of Science: Why It Didn't Work for Michael Polanyi," Symposium on the Use of Economic Concepts in Contemporary Philosophy of Science at the 1996 meetings of the PSA, Cleveland, Ohio, November 1996; HES meetings, Vancouver BC, July 1996.
"Harold Hotelling and the Neoclassical Dream" ASSA meetings, San Francisco, Jan. 1996; Meetings of the European Assn. for the History of Economics, Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 1996; IEA Conference on Economic Methodology, Bergamo, Italy, June 1996.
"Economics, Science and Knowledge: Polanyi vs. Hayek" EEAPE Conference Plenary session, Kracow, Poland, October 1995.
"Do You Know the Way to Santa Fe?" History of Economics Association meetings, South Bend, June 1995; University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 1995; University of Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 1996; Univ. de Paris --IX, Dauphine; Paris, Feb. 1996..
"Refusing the Gift" Conference on Postmodernism and Economics, University of California-Riverside, March 1995.
"Mandelbrot's Economics 25 Years Later" Conference in Honor of Benoit Mandelbrot's 70th birthday, Curacao, February 1995.
"Bourbakism Comes to Economics" AEA meetings, Washington, DC, January 1995.
"The Economic Consequences of Philip Kitcher" 4S/PSA meetings, New Orleans, October 1994.
"A Graduate Course in Institutionalist Economic Theory" Dinner address at Conference in honor of the restoration of Veblen's birthplace, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, September 1994.
"The Attribution of Quantitative Error and the Erasure of Plural Interpretations in Various Sciences" Conference on Pluralism in Economics, Bergamo, Italy, May 1994.
"Passing Around the Gift" Duke Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science, March 1994.
"Scissors, Lies and Scotchtape" mini-course, Duke University, March 1994.
"Civilization and Its Discounts" ASSA/HES, Boston, January 1994; Michigan State University, April 1994; Duke University, March 1994.
"Precision Measurement as Arbitrage" Society for the Social Studies of Science, Purdue University, November 1993; Stanford University, May 1994, Universite de Paris- I, Feb. 1996.
"Error in Its Cultural Contexts" invited lecture, Virginia Polytechnic, Blacksburg, VA, November 1993.
"What Econometrics Can and Can't Tell Us About the Economic Actors: Brewing and Rationality in early 19th Century Britain" Economic History Association, Tucson, October 1993.
"Tit for Tat: Gift, Exchange and Money in the History of Economic Anthropology" Duke Conference on the History of Higgling, March 1993; COPEC XIII, Northeastern University, Boston, January 1994.
"How to Stop Worrying and Calculate the Improbable" George Washington University and George Mason University, Washington, DC, November 1992.
"The Realms of the Natural" Universit? de Montreal, November 1992.
"Value as a Mobile Army of Metaphors" National Conference on Systems
Science and Law, Denver, July 1992.
Roundtable on Dan Hausman, The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics,
History of Economics Society meetings, Fairfax, VA, May 1992.
"Econometrics and the Problem of Replication" Conference on Econometric Method, University of Tilburg, Holland, December 1991; York University, Toronto, Canada, March 1992; History of Economics Society meetings, Fairfax, VA, May 1992; Western Economics Association meetings, San Francisco, July 1992; Economic Science Association, Tucson, Arizona, October 1992; Simon Fraser University, February 1993; University of Victoria, February 1993; Malvern Conference, United Kingdom, August 1993.
"Problems in the History of Neoclassical Economics" University of Witten, Germany, May 1991.
"Learning the Meaning of a Guilder" Dutch Society for the History of Economic Thought, University of Utrecht, Holland, March 1991; University of Amsterdam, April 1991.
"A Postmodern Approach to Mathematical Discourse in Economics" Vanderbilt University and the University of the South (Georgescu- Roegen Lecture), November 1990; AEA meetings, Washington, DC, December 1990; Finnish Economics Association, Turkuu, February 1991; Conference on New Directions in Analytical Economics, University of Notre Dame, March 1991; SCASS, Uppsala, Sweden, March 1991.
"What Were von Neumann and Morgenstern Trying to Accomplish?" Duke Conference on the History of Game Theory, October 1990; AEA meetings, Washington, DC, December 1990; Loyola University invited lecture, December 1991.
"The Shape of Beer to Come: Price Expectations of Brewers in the Early 19th Century" Indiana University Economic History Workshop, October 1990.
"Value and Measurement in Theory and History" University of Michigan Economic History Workshop, September 1990; University of Chicago Economic History Workshop, November 1990.
"When Games Grow Deadly Serious" Pew Conference on the History of Defense Economics, Duke University, August 1990.
"Smooth Operator: Marshall"s Impact on the Evolution of Neoclassical Theory" Marshall Centenary Conference, Cambridge University, August 1990.
"Conservation Principles and the Theory of Economic Value" Universit? de Montreal, March 1990.
"What Was Game Theory Trying to Accomplish in the 1940s/50s?" Duke Seminar on the History of Game Theory, January 1990.
"The Rise and Fall of the Equilibrium Concept" Kress Society, September 1989.
"From Mandelbrot to Chaos" Journ?es d'?tude sur la notion d'equilibre, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, May 1989; and Department of Statistics, University of Rome, October 1989; University of Helsinki, February 1991; University of Copenhagen, June 1991; University of Lund, June 1991.
"Discontinuity in the History of Economic Theory" Invited lecture to Colloquium on Continuity and Discontinuity in Economics, Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University, Netherlands, April 1989.
"From Mandelbrot to Chaos" International Symposium on Evolutionary Dynamics and Nonlinear Economics, IC2 Institute, Austin, Texas, April 1989.
"The Structure of a Social Theory of Value" workshop in Institutionalist Economics, University of Tennessee, February 1989.
"Moore and the Columbia School of Stochastic Economics" invited Political Economy lecture, Barnard College, March 1989.
"'Tis a Pity Econometrics Isn't an Empirical Endeavor" American Economics Association, New York, December 1988; Kress Society, Harvard University, October 1988; American University, February 1989.
"Historical Determinants of Issues in Mathematical Economics" Cowles Lunch Series, Yale University, May 1988.
"Future Trends in Institutional Economics" International Conference of Institutionalist Scholars, London, June 1988.
"Deterministic and Stochastic Order in Twentieth Century Economics" Austrian Economics Seminar, New York University, April 1988; and Yale University Economic History Workshop, March 1988.
"The Six Neoclassical Theories of Production" Harvard Economics Seminar, October 1987.
"What is So Convincing About Econometrics?" Conference on Interpretative Economics, Wellesley College, June 1987.
"The Spurious Symmetry of Neoclassical Theories of Production and Consumption" Kress Society Lectures, Harvard Business School, September 1986; History of Economics Society, Boston, June 1987.
"The Metaphorical Persistence of the Neoclassical Field" Duke University Economics Department, October 1986.
"Metaphor and Neoclassical Theory" Universit? de Paris I--Sorbonne, June 1986.
"The Rhetoric of Mathematics in Economics" Conference on the Consequences of Economic Rhetoric, Wellesley College, April 1986.
"Mathematical Formalism and Economic Explanation" Syracuse University, Economics Department Lecture Series, March 1986.
"The Mutual Interpenetration of Economics and Physics" Princeton University Program in the History of Science Colloquia, February 1986; University of New Hampshire Economics Department, March 1986.
"Value as Substance and Value as Field" Yale University Economics Department,
April 1985.
"Mathematical Formalism in the History of Economic Thought" Harvard
Political Economy Lecture Series, April 1985.
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