Natural Images in Economic Thought: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw

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.