Machine Dreams Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science
By Philip Mirowski. 2001
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- Cultural-economy and cities (2007, background): “…the very categories ‘culture’ and ‘economy’ (Castree, 2004), is increasingly being noted in guiding long-term economic change (McCloskey, 1998; Mirowski, 2002), as is the role of dispositional behaviour and cultural attractors in economic emergence (Urry, 2002a), or the delayed effects of…”
- Islamic banking and finance: postcolonial political economy and the decentring of economic geography (2007, background): “25 Nevertheless, the project of interrogating the genealogy of ‘Economics‘ is now being prosecuted on several fronts (see McCloskey 1998; Mitchell 1998 2002; Mirowski 2002; Zein-Elabdin and Charusheela 2004) and is gradually receiving greater attention in Economic Geography (see Castree 2004).”
- Economic markets as calculative collective devices (2005, background): “He proposes an analysis of market mechanisms as algorithms (Mirowski, 2002, 2003).”
- From social control to financial economics: the linked ecologies of economics and business in twentieth century America (2009, background): “34 See, for example, Nelson (1987), Noll (1985) on the deregulation movement, and Mercuro and Medema (1997) on law and economics in the United States.”
- The turn in recent economics and return of orthodoxy (2007, background): “Note that some of these ‘new’ programmes had antecedents in the postwar period that failed to command a significant following, for example, game theory immediately after the war (cf. Mirowski, 2002) and the behavioural economics of Simon and colleagues (cf.”
- Discovering Price in All the Wrong Places: The Work of Commodity Definition and Price under Neoliberal Environmental Policy (2007, background): “Leon Walras’ two theorems of 1874, elegantly mathematized in the Arrow-Debreu proof of 1953 (Mirowski 2001:268), expanded upon Say’s Law and required price to be the mechanism which coordinates this balance between demand and supply to the point of Pareto-optimality, where no further increase in…”
- Surveying structural change: Seminal contributions and a bibliometric account (2008, background): “extent reflect the overall tendency towards formalism in economic research (Mirowski, 2002; Weintraub, 2002).”
- Geography’s underworld: The military–industrial complex, mathematical modelling and the quantitative revolution (2008, background): “Economics is perhaps the best example (Bernstein, 1995; Mirowski, 2002).”